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George Allen Beecher (February 3, 1868 - June 14, 1951) was the second and last bishop of the Episcopal Missionary District of Western Nebraska from 1910 to 1943. An alumnus of the University of Nebraska and Philadelphia Divinity School, he was consecrated on November 30, 1910.


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