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# Sheldon Jackson

Basketball Player

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Sheldon Jackson is a basketball player, best known for *Alaska, and missions on the North Pacific coast*.

## Quick Facts About Sheldon Jackson

Profession Basketball Player

Notable works Alaska, and missions on the North Pacific coast

## About Sheldon Jackson

Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and political leader. During this career he travelled about one million miles and established more than one hundred missions and churches, mostly in the Western United States. He performed extensive missionary work in Colorado and the Alaska Territory, including his efforts to suppress Native American languages.

##  Quotes by Sheldon Jackson

> [The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-jackson/the-training-of-the-schools-should-be-extended-to-the-heart-as-well/)

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[Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/)

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> [The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-jackson/the-teacher-who-would-be-true-to-his-mission-and-accomplish-the-most/)

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[Accomplish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accomplish/)

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> [Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-jackson/among-those-best-known-their-highest-ambition-is-to-build-american/)

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[Adopt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adopt/)

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> [I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-jackson/i-must-work-the-works-of-him-who-sent-me-while-it-is-yet-day/)

[Sheldon Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-jackson/)

[Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/day/)

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