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Exterior view of a traditionally constructed building with Rev. John Youngson and a female missionary standing outside with a group of indigenous people. John Forbes White Youngson (1852-1920) was sent to the Punjab in 1875 with his wife Helen. He served in Sailkot, Gujrat and Jammu, when the Maharaja allowed access in 1900. He became Moderator of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church, India (1905-6) and had the town of Youngsonabad named in his honour and authored ‘The History of the Churhas’ and ‘Forty Years of the Panjab Mission’ (1896). He returned to the Punjab after he retired in 1907 where he served till his death in 1920.
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