John Campanius was born Stockholm, Sweden, in 1601 and was educated there and at the University of Upsalla. He was ordained in 1633 and in 1642 was sent by Church of Sweden to North America as a missionary to Native Americans. Landing in Delaware on February 15, 1643,  became the first European settler. where he taught the local Algonquin Indians, and translated Luther’s Catechism into their language.

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