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James Mallory Willson, a native of Somerset, Kentucky and former resident of Chicago, Illinois relocated to Kissimmee, Florida in the early 1880s. Through contacts with the Southern Baptist Organization, James Willson helped organize Baptist missionary crusades for the Seminole Indians. Together with his wife, Minnie Moore Willson, he was instrumental in the society known as "Friends of the Florida Seminoles." He died on August 5, 1943.
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