John Leighton Wilson, an alumnus of Columbia Theological Seminary, and his wife Jane Bayard Wilson were the first missionaries to West Africa by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Author: Unknown photographer Source: Memoirs of Rev. John Leighton Wilson, missionary to Africa and Secretary of Foreign Missions (1895) by Hampden Coit DuBose. License: PD US expired PD-anon-expired