Badger, Joseph
missionary, was born Feb. 28, 1757, in Wilbraham, Mass.
In 1800 the missionary society sent him to the unsettled part of the country northwest of the Ohio river. Here he endured great hardships for thirty years, going from settlement to settlement, over a country where there were neither roads nor bridges, and often passing the night. in the branches of a tree. This mode of life gave him great familiarity with the country, which was of use to the American army during the war of 1812, when he served as chaplain. He died May 5, 1846, in Perrysburg, Ohio.