John Henry Kilbuck Jr. (sometimes spelled Killbuck) and his wife, Edith (Romig) Kilbuck, were Moravian missionaries in southwestern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A Moravian can be: an ethnic group a Christian denomination This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ... Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ... Events and Trends Technology Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air aircraft Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first documented flight in a powered heavier-than-air aircraft Mass production of automobile Wide popularity of home phonograph Panama Canal is built by the United...

John was the great-grandson of Delaware (Lenape) chief Gelelemend, a signer of the Alliance Treaty with the United States in 1778. The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ... Gelelemend (1737–1811), known to whites as Killbuck or John Killbuck Jr. ... The Treaty of Alliance of (1778) resulted from the success of American forces in the Battle of Saratoga. ... 1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

John was born in Franklin County, Kansas on May 15, 1861, into a family in the Munsee band of the Delaware, where many Munsee had relocated after their old territory in the northeast United States was taken. As a youth, he left home and went to the Moravian center of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to obtain an education, first at the Nazareth Boys’ School and later at the Moravian College and Seminary. He became the first Delaware ordained a Moravian minister in 1884. Franklin County (standard abbreviation: FR) is a county located in the state of Kansas. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Munsee-Delaware Nation No. ... A Moravian can be: an ethnic group a Christian denomination This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Bethlehem is a city located in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in eastern Pennsylvania, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 71,329. ... Moravian College is a four-year liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ...

Edith Romig was born on April 16, 1865 in Franklin County, Kansas. She was the daughter of Joseph Romig, a Moravian minister among the Munsee in Ottawa, Kansas and the granddaughter of Levi Rickseker, Joseph's predecessor as minister there. Both Levi and Joseph preserved important historical information about the Munsee of that period. April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... Franklin County (standard abbreviation: FR) is a county located in the state of Kansas. ...

In 1885 John and Edith married. In that same year, Sheldon Jackson invited the Moravian Church to send missionaries to Alaska. The Kilbucks went as part of the first group of missionaries. They spent their adult lives in southwestern Alaska as missionaries and teachers among the Yupik people. 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Sheldon Jackson was an early missionary and political leader in Alaska during the late 1880s and early 1900s. ... A missionary is a propagator of religion, often an evangelist or other representative of a religious community who works among those outside of that community. ... The Yupik or, in the Central Alaskan language, Yupik, are aboriginal people who live along the coast of western Alaska, especially on the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and along the Kuskokwim River (Central Alaskan Yupik), in southern Alaska (the Alutiiq) and in the Russian Far East and St. ...

The Kilbucks were perhaps the most influential missionaries during the period around 1900. John and Edith quickly learned the Yupik language. John instituted the strategy of centering missionary work around existing villages, rather than establishing mission stations as had been done by Moravian missionaries in Greenland and Labrador. He also established the use of Yupik as the language of the Moravian Church in Alaska, a policy which continues to the present in Yupik-speaking areas. This article is about the region in Canada. ...

Another missionary, Reverend John Hinz, had begun to translate scripture and other material into Yupik written with Roman (English) letters. A local "helper" and later missionary, the genius convert Uyaquk, also translated some of these texts into Yupik using a script he had invented to write Yugtun. Hinz, John and Edith supported both of these efforts. The Hinz script became the standard for writing Yupik until about 1970, when it was replaced by a script developed by a group of native Yupik speakers and scholars at the University of Alaska. Uyaquk was a Yupik Moravian missionary and linguistic genius who went from being an illiterate adult to inventing a series of writing systems for his native language and then producing translations of the Bible and other religious works in a period of five years. ... Yugtun is a dialect of Yupik spoken in Central Alaska. ... The University of Alaska is a Land-Grant, Sea-Grant, and Space Grant university founded in 1922 in Fairbanks, Alaska. ...

The diaries and letters of John and Edith Kilbuck provide much information otherwise unavailable about Yupik life in the late 1800s.

John Henry Kilbuck died in 1922 in Akiak, Alaska. Edith died in 1933. 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Akiak is a city located in Bethel Census Area, Alaska. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...