This is a somewhat backhanded piece of Baptist history, as you will see.
Eugenio Kincaid was born into a Presbyterian home in Wetherfield, Connecticut, but in his youth the family moved to Pennsylvania. There, under the preaching of a Baptist evangelist, the young man was born again, and after studying his Bible on the question of baptism, he was immersed and joined the local Baptist church. At the time he was an apprentice to a Protestant lawyer. That man, apparently knowing nothing of moral law, dismissed our Brother Kincaid. That opened the door to Eugenio’s study for the ministry. He was ordained by a church in New York where he began to pastor, but his heart was for missions, and he often made evangelistic trips back into the interior of Pennsylvania. Out of his love for that state, on this day in 1846, he helped to establish a school in Lewisburg, which is now called Bucknell University.
Extending his ministry, Brother Kincaid and his wife set sail for Burma to serve as missionaries. As the Lord led, his initial ministry was among the English soldiers in Maulmain. During his first year, about one hundred soldiers were saved, eventually carrying the gospel back to England. That was just the beginning of his missionary activities. Many, many times he sailed up the Irrawaddy River for hundreds of miles, often facing imminent danger. For example, in February, 1837 he stepped off his little boat to face thirty guns, shots rang out but the Lord protected him, and he wasn’t hit, but he was taken at spear point into five days of captivity. The Lord enabled him to escape, and after nearly a week, filled with harrowing experiences, he was able to return to the city of Ava.
Eugenio Kincaid lost his American wife to tropical disease. When his second wife, the widow of a British officer showed signs of deterioration, he took her to America for treatment. During that furlough he was used of the Lord to stir hundreds of Christian hearts towards foreign evangelism. So the ministry of this man extended from New York and Pennsylvania to Burmans, Karens, rebels, pirates, even to the British, from whom the Lord saved many.
– Source: This Day in Baptist History, Thompson and Cummins