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missionary and scholar of the

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in Ontario, Canada. He served as an interpreter between his native

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and English, as well as Iroquoian languages, and assisted

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with a vocabulary of Munsee/Lenape in 1865. Anthony graduated as an Anglican priest from Huron University College in 1873, and worked as a missionary with the

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. He visited Buffalo, New York in the United States for the Forest Lawn Cemetery reinternment of Red Jacket in 1884. Anthony retired as a priest in 1886, afterward being employed as a farmer, and subsequently worked with

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on a dictionary of Munsee/Lenape, visiting Brinton in Philadelphia in 1886 and 1887 in his ancestral Delaware Valley, and Brinton also consulted with him on the Walam Olum, which he believed to be genuine. Anthony is the source of an etymology of

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, that it was named after a stand of hickory trees used for bows in the south of the island.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anthony, Albert 1839 births 20th-century Canadian Anglican priests Alumni of Anglican seminaries and theological colleges Anglican missionaries in Canada Interpreters Linguists of Algic languages Lenape people Six Nations of the Grand River First Nations academics Year of death missing