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Apr 09, 1860 Died on 01 Jan 1938 (aged 77)
British missionary
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About Alfred Docking
- Alfred E.
- Docking (born April 9, 1860 – 1938) was a Presbyterian missionary in Alaska in the 1890s.
- He was born in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England.
- Docking emigrated to America and settled in Kansas with his parents, Robert Docking and Martha Mynott, in 1876.
- Docking chose to direct his missionary efforts towards Native American populations, first in Oklahoma (then called Indian Territory), where he worked as a superintendent of Spencer Academy in the town of Nelson.
- During the years 1891-1893 Docking and his wife, Anna Allen Marshall, taught at the Sitka Training School, a Presbyterian missionary school for Indian boys and girls at Sitka, Alaska.
- Docking and his family went to California in 1894, where he was ordained after completing his education at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1895.
- Docking gave many speeches in Alaska and California and recruited teachers for the Presbyterian missions there.
- He died in 1938 in Pueblo, Colorado.
