Several missionary families and teachers served the Dakota mission at Lac qui Parle across the mid-nineteenth century. Thomas S. Williamson and Margaret Poage Williamson arrived with their daughter Elizabeth on July 9, 1835, from Ripley, Ohio, where they had supported the Underground Railroad; Thomas was a medical doctor, ordained pastor, and translator, and he began there in 1835 the work that led to the translation of the entire Bible into the Dakota language before his death in 1879. They left in 1846 to open a new mission station at Kaposia, and five of their ten children were born at Lac qui Parle. Stephen R. Riggs and Mary Ann Clark Longley Riggs served there from 1837 to 1843 and again from 1846 to 1854; Mary taught Dakota children and helped compile the first English-Dakota dictionary, while Stephen edited much of the mission's published work, including the first Grammar and Dictionary of the Dakota Language in 1852, and five of their eight children were born there. Sarah Poage arrived in July 1835 to teach Dakota children, married Gideon H. Pond in November 1837 in the first Protestant wedding at Lac qui Parle, and in 1839 they moved to Lake Calhoun; Gideon, a missionary to the Dakota since 1834, helped his brother Samuel develop the Dakota alphabet, later left the mission over misgivings about the Treaties of 1851, and became a pastor in Bloomington. Fanny Huggins taught at Lac qui Parle for six years before marrying Jonas Pettijohn in 1845, and they served there together until 1852, later teaching Dakota students at the Federal day school at Red Iron's Village from 1859 to 1862. Alexander G. Huggins and Lydia Pettijohn Huggins, also active in the Underground Railroad in Ohio, arrived with their children on July 9, 1835; Alexander oversaw construction of the mission station and taught Euro-American farming to Dakotas, and after moving to Traverse des Sioux in 1847 he resigned following the Treaties of 1851, disillusioned about the future of Dakota people and with the ABCFM's position on slavery. Moses Newton Adams and Anne Margery Gaul Rankin Adams came to the Dakota mission in 1848, lived at Lac qui Parle for five years while teaching day-school students, boarding children, and helping develop Dakota-language books, and later Moses served as a pastor, Federal Indian Agent, and ABCFM missionary at Goodwill Mission. Jane Smith Williamson, a teacher and anti-slavery activist, joined her brother Thomas S. Williamson's family there in 1843, moved with them to Kaposia in 1846, was known as Aunt Jane, received the Dakota name Dowaŋdutawin because she loved teaching translated hymns, and spent the last five decades of her life living among and serving the Dakota people.