1176 10 11780 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b41083b083fafdd0bbf3b123a227b9bb.tif d57ceab4b2daba3c3c892b3ce4e236d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Tenney Castle Subject The topic of the resource Mary Tenney Castle Missionaries Biographies Hawaii Cemeteries Description An account of the resource Philanthropy, education and religion were the interests that drove Mary Tenney Castle’s life; that she carried out her work in those fields in the Hawaiian Islands was a fate decided by her elder sister, Angeline Tenney Castle. Mary became the second wife of Samuel Northrup Castle, a member of the Hawaiian Islands Mission who arrived in Hawaii with the eighth company of missionaries in April of 1837 aboard the ship Mary Frazier. He was accompanied by Angeline, who lived until 1841. When Samuel Castle returned to the United States in search of a new wife, it was Mary, his wife’s sister, that he chose. Mary’s honest assessment of herself as a Christian, saying that she would continue to question both her own religious view and that held within the spiritual foundation of the mission, made some on the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) question her fitness for the role of Samuel’s wife. The ABCFM gave the marriage a vote of confidence and she arrived in the islands in March 1843. She became the stepmother and aunt to Angeline and Samuels’s daughter Mary, and went on to have ten children more. When the ABCFM ceased the support of the Hawaiian Mission, Samuel joined forces with Amos Cooke, a missionary, and the two formed Castle and Cooke, a mercantile business. Samuel Northrup was not a missionary but a secular agent to the mission, one who had daily contact and correspondence with the mission stations. This situation created space for his wife Mary to pursue her interests, and within a short time her home became a meeting place for those interested in education of all types. Mary’s own education was considered radical at the time. She studied at the Deerfield Academy and was influenced by the popular movements of the time which opposed slavery and alcohol and supported women’s suffrage and prison reform. When Samuel died in 1894, Mary created the Samuel Northrup Castle Benevolent Trust which, under the name Samuel N. And Mary Castle Foundation, continues to serve the people of Hawaiʻi today. Mary Tenney Castle born October 26, 1819 Plainfield, New York. Died March 13, 1907 Honolulu, Hawaii Souce: Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, ed., University of Hawaii Press 1984 Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 A Century of Philanthropy: A History of the Samuel N. and Mary Tenney Castle Foundation, Alfred L. Castle, Hawaiian Historical Society, 2001 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library (HMCSL), located on the campus of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This material is for reference only. 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Title A name given to the resource Charlotte Fowler Baldwin Subject The topic of the resource Charlotte Fowler Baldwin Missionaries Biographies Hawaii Cemeteries Description An account of the resource Charlotte Fowler Baldwin (November 7, 1805 - October 2, 1873) Charlotte Baldwin came to the islands of Hawaiʻi with her husband of six months in the fourth company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the ABCFM. She was a well-educated woman who had dedicated herself to religion at the age of sixteen. As a very young woman she supported herself by teaching young New Englanders in her native Connecticut. In 1830, at the time of their sailing for the islands aboard the bark New England, Charlotte was twenty-five, her husband, Dwight Baldwin, a medical doctor who also held a degree from Andover Theological Seminary, thirty-two. They had married within a week of meeting, as Mr. Baldwin had been accepted to go with the fourth company but the ABCFM insisted he be married. Charlotte’s new life took her from Honolulu to Waimea on Hawaiʻi island, to Lahaina on Maui, where she spent thirty-five years. She held classes in each of those mission stations, teaching sewing, singing, knitting and bible studies, for classes of women. She raised a family of six children and schooled them at home. This filled her days while her husband was doctor to the mission and Native Hawaiians, a task that often required him to be gone for days and weeks at a time. The Baldwins brought to the islands a library of 125 books, including medical, history and science texts, which aided them in their work and in the children’s education. Apart from one return trip with her family to New England, Charlotte spent the rest of her life in Hawaiʻi. In time, the Baldwins moved to Honolulu to live with their daughter Abigail and her husband William Alexander. There, Charlotte continued her missionary work until her death in 1873. Charlotte is still remembered for her open hospitality toward friends and colleagues traveling between the outer islands and Honolulu. The Baldwin family home which consists of two stories, built of plastered coral blocks two-foot thick, is now a museum which can be visited in Lahaina, Maui. Her descendants continue to contribute to Hawaiian society. Charlotte Fowler Baldwin born November 7, 1805, White Hollow, Connecticut Died October 2, 1873, Punahou, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 https://lahainarestoration.org/baldwin-home-museum/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library (HMCSL), located on the campus of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This material is for reference only. 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The youngest child of missionaries William and Mary Sophia Rice, she lived a simple life as a child but later traveled, with her mother, brother-in-law and his children, to Germany. Here she visited art museums which began her life-long love of art. Anna Rice married Charles Montague Cooke in 1874. The Cookes built a life in Honolulu’s center, first living with his parents at the frame house which you see across the street from this cemetery, then on Beretania Street, at the current site of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Mr. Cooke was a founder of the Bank of Hawaii, and served as a trustee for the Bishop Estate. They created the Cooke Foundation which continues today to serve the community through art, humanities, and educational grants. When her husband died, Anna traveled to Asia and Canada with her daughter, and as they traveled they collected paintings, drawings, sculpture, porcelain and textiles. She enjoyed displaying her treasures at home, but eventually decided that the best thing she could do with all of these things was to create a museum so everyone could enjoy them. In 1920 she moved from Beretania Street to Makiki Heights, and her house was torn down and the museum was built on the site. Central to the museum idea was her philosophy that art was for everyone, and specifically everyone in Hawaii. She wanted Hawaiian architecture for the building, and followed a plan of displaying only some of the work at any given time in order to create a harmony between display spaces and the pieces themselves. When the building was finished and displays created, she invited schools to visit, and if that were impossible, she took photo reproductions of pieces, and sometimes the pieces themselves, to rural schools. She was the first woman in Hawaii to obtain a driver’s license, in order to accomplish these visits. Because she felt so strongly about the place of art in education, she called the museum The Honolulu Academy of Art, so that its role in the lives of the people would not be forgotten. The name of the institution was changed in 2012. Anna Charlotte Rice Cooke Born September 5, 1853 Punahou, Hawaii, Died August 8, 1934 Honolulu, Hawaii Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 https://www.hawaiimagazine.com/the-cooke-foundation-nurturing-the-next-generation-of-givers/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library (HMCSL), located on the campus of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This material is for reference only. 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Title A name given to the resource Juliette Montague Cooke Subject The topic of the resource Missionaries Biographies Hawaii Cemeteries Juliette Montague Cooke Description An account of the resource Juliette Montague Cooke (March 10, 1812 - August 11, 1896) Juliette Montague was a resourceful young woman in Sunderland, Massachusetts when she met Amos Starr Cooke in 1835. She had lost her father ten years earlier and had immediately begun supporting herself as a seamstress, after which she worked at a school in Amherst, Massachusetts, in order to attend classes. She was also allowed to attend lectures at the nearby Amherst College, as well as being associated with Ipswich Seminary, then run by Mary Lyon, who went on to form Mount Holyoke Seminary. She was a teacher and a faithful member of her church, and had thought to become a missionary before meeting Amos Cooke, a young man determined to join the missionaries already settled in Hawaiʻi. Thus they were suited for their journey with the Hawaiian Islands Mission. Juliette and Amos married in 1836 and sailed three weeks later, aboard the ship Mary Frazier, arriving in Honolulu as members of the eighth company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1837. The aliʻi, the Hawaiian ruling class, desired that the missionaries create a school for their children who would one day represent and rule over the islands. The ali’i wanted their children to be able to move in the larger world, fluent in the English language and with a knowledge of western culture. After some time teaching general education classes, the Cookes were singled out to take on the schooling of twelve children at what was called the Chiefs’ Children’s School, later known as the Royal School, assisted by John Papa ʻĪʻī and his wife Sarai. With these guardians, the children blossomed. The youngest would become Liliʻuokalani, the last queen of Hawaiʻi. The school closed in 1850 when the last child eligible to rule the islands came of age. Juliette and her husband moved to the frame house which you see across the street from this cemetery. Amos joined forces with Samuel Northrup Castle to form Castle and Cooke, a mercantile company which survives today. Juliette raised her seven children while teaching the royal children, and when the family returned to the Mission Houses, continued to teach by overseeing Kawaiahaʻo Female Seminary and teaching Sunday School. She made three voyages to her native America. Juliette Montague Cooke Born March 10, 1812, Sunderland, Massachusetts Died Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, August 11, 1896 Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library (HMCSL), located on the campus of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This material is for reference only. 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Title A name given to the resource Mary Atherton Richards Subject The topic of the resource Missionaries Biographies Hawaii Cemeteries Mary Atherton Richards Description An account of the resource Mary Atherton Richards (April 21, 1869 - April 18, 1951) Mary Atherton Richards was the granddaughter of eighth company missionaries Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke, and the daughter of Juliette Montague Atherton and Joseph Ballard Atherton. She was born in the 1821 Mission House which you can see across the street from this cemetery. Mary followed her parents and grandparents into public service. She led the Morning Music Club, begun in 1905, a monthly meeting club for active local musicians and singers. She was a commissioner of the Department of Public Education and made it her mission to improve the quality of teachers. She campaigned for the opening of the first high schools on Kauaʻi and Maui, and helped to establish the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind. For many years she led the Women’s Board of Missions, whose causes included temperance, the establishment of Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese school and health departments, and from these, financial assistance was sent out beyond Hawaii to infant health clinics in South Africa, Egypt and China. With her husband, Theodore, Mary Atherton Richards gave property for the establishment of schools, an endowment for the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and gave Fernhurst, their family home, to the YWCA for the establishment of a home for working women.. They established Kokokahi, a camp in the beauty of nature for weary souls to enjoy a respite from their lives. Montague Hall at Punahou School was a gift from the Richards, and a foundation created for Mary Atherton Richards constructed a memorial chapel at the United Church of Christ in Nuʻuanu. Mary and her husband traveled the world to further their evangelical goals. Mary wrote for The Friend, the mission’s newspaper, and two books; The Chiefs Childrens’ School, an account of the work of her grandparents, Amos Starr and Juliette Montague Cooke as instructors and guardians of the chiefly children of Hawaiʻi in the 1800s, and a history of her grandparents, Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke. Mary Cushing Atherton Richards Born April 21, 1869 Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Died April 18, 1951, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Sources: Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 https://www.ywcaoahu.org/ywca-oahu-120/2020/4/27/a-moment-in-our-history-kokokahi-a-place-where-all-gather-in-the-shared-spirit-of-one-blood Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library (HMCSL), located on the campus of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This material is for reference only. 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Title A name given to the resource Mary Tenney Castle Subject The topic of the resource Missionaries Biographies Hawaii Cemeteries Mary Tenney Castle Description An account of the resource Mary Tenney Castle (October 26, 1819 - March 13, 1907) Philanthropy, education and religion were the interests that drove Mary Tenney Castle’s life; that she carried out her work in those fields in the Hawaiian Islands was a fate decided by her elder sister, Angeline Tenney Castle. Mary became the second wife of Samuel Northrup Castle, a member of the Hawaiian Islands Mission who arrived in Hawaii with the eighth company of missionaries in April of 1837 aboard the ship Mary Frazier. He was accompanied by Angeline, who lived until 1841. When Samuel Castle returned to the United States in search of a new wife, it was Mary, his wife’s sister, that he chose. Mary’s honest assessment of herself as a Christian, saying that she would continue to question both her own religious view and that held within the spiritual foundation of the mission, made some on the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) question her fitness for the role of Samuel’s wife. The ABCFM gave the marriage a vote of confidence and she arrived in the islands in March 1843. She became the stepmother and aunt to Angeline and Samuels’s daughter Mary, and went on to have ten children more. When the ABCFM ceased the support of the Hawaiian Mission, Samuel joined forces with Amos Cooke, a missionary, and the two formed Castle and Cooke, a mercantile business. Samuel Northrup was not a missionary but a secular agent to the mission, one who had daily contact and correspondence with the mission stations. This situation created space for his wife Mary to pursue her interests, and within a short time her home became a meeting place for those interested in education of all types. Mary’s own education was considered radical at the time. She studied at the Deerfield Academy and was influenced by the popular movements of the time which opposed slavery and alcohol and supported women’s suffrage and prison reform. When Samuel died in 1894, Mary created the Samuel Northrup Castle Benevolent Trust which, under the name Samuel N. And Mary Castle Foundation, continues to serve the people of Hawaiʻi today. Mary Tenney Castle Born October 26, 1819 Plainfield, New York. Died March 13, 1907 Honolulu, Hawaii Sources: Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson,ed., University of Hawaii Press 1984 Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 A Century of Philanthropy:A History of the Samuel N. and Mary Tenney Castle Foundation, Alfred L. Castle, Hawaiian Historical Society, 2001 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library (HMCSL), located on the campus of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This material is for reference only. 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Title A name given to the resource Maria Ogden Subject The topic of the resource Maria Odgen Missionaries Hawaii Cemeteries Biography Description An account of the resource Maria Ogden (February 17, 1792 - April 3, 1873) “By her own estimate, she had under her training in her various schools over a thousand Hawaiian girls.” So ran the article in The Friend, the mission newspaper, of Maria Ogden. Miss Ogden grew up in Philadelphia and New Jersey. She found a calling to missionary life and with glowing references was accepted as part of the Sandwich Island Mission. She sailed to Honolulu in 1828, part of an unusual contingent that included four unmarried women. Maria Ogden began her missionary life at Waimea, Kauaʻi, living with Peter and Fanny Gulick. Soon, however, she began to teach small classes, and in 1829 was reassigned to Lahaina, Maui, where she once more assisted a mission family, this time the William Richards family. She taught day school and Sunday school to a large group of children. She was called to teach, and within the decade had moved on to lead the Wailuku Female Seminary, where she remained for twenty years. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission closed that school in 1849. Miss Ogden then opened a smaller school, still in Wailuku. She adopted two orphaned sisters, Ellen and Isabella Holden. One of her students, Naomi Maka, became a missionary to the Marquesas Islands when she married a young Hawaiian pastor, James Kekela. Their first child they named Maria Ogden Kekela, such was their affection for Miss Ogden. When the Kekelas sailed for the Marquesas they were warned not to bring the children because the situation in the Marquesas, as far as safety was concerned, was uncertain. Maria Ogden took in Maria Ogden Kekela and her younger sister Susan to join the Holden sisters and raised them as her own. When she was called to Honolulu to assist the principal of Oahu College (Punahou School) in 1858, the children went with her and helped her in the creation of a school for girls in Makiki. She led this school for another ten years, and then enjoyed a further seven years of peaceful retirement. Maria C. Ogden Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1792 Died Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, April 3, 1873 Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 https://nupepa-hawaii.com/tag/maria-ogden/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library (HMCSL), located on the campus of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This material is for reference only. 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Title A name given to the resource Artemas Bishop Subject The topic of the resource Missionaries Biographies Hawaii Cemeteries Artemas Bishop Description An account of the resource Artemas Bishop (December 30, 1795 - December 18, 1872) For over two years young Artemas Bishop felt the call to missionary service while engaged in his studies at Union College, New York, and later Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. “It is the Sandwich Islands Mission in which I have been most interested from the first, & to which of all places I had rather go…” Bishop was born in Pompey, New York on December 30, 1795. Near the time of his departure to Hawaiʻi, he met and married Elizabeth Edwards, a childhood schoolmate of Lucy Goodale Thurston, with whom she shared a dream of missionary service. The Bishops arrived in Hawaii April 23,1823, on the ship Thames, as part of the second company of missionaries sent to the islands by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Their assignments took them from Honolulu to Kauai and to Kona on Hawaii Island, where they worked alongside the Thurston family. There they had two children. Bishop had shown a talent for languages while attending college. In Hawaii, he used that talent to translate, with fellow missionaries and Hawaiian advisors, parts of five books of the New testament and seven books of the Old Testament. In addition, he translated six mathematics books, wrote a Hawaiian-to -English phrase book, and translated Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, then the second most popular book in the world. In 1823, Bishop took part in a three-hundred-mile exploratory expedition on foot and by canoe, around the island of Hawaii with Asa Thurston, Joseph Goodrich, a guide, Makoa, a mechanic by the name of Harwood, and the English missionary William Ellis, undertaken to scout sites for new mission stations. Elizabeth Bishop died in February of 1828, and Bishop remarried by the end of the year. His second wife was Delia Stone, who raised Bishop’s children in Kona and in ‘Ewa, Oahu, where the Bishops were later stationed. In ‘Ewa, Bishop’s mission became that of assuring the succession of ministers for the Congregational Protestant church through the ordaining of native Hawaiian pastors. In later years Bishop made a voyage to the Marquesas Islands as part of a deputation from the ABCFM. After returning to Hawaii, he became a surveyor for the government, earning enough that he and his wife, upon leaving the mission’s work, were able to build a house in Honolulu, where they spent their last days. Artemas Bishop Born December 30, 1795 Pompey, Oswego, New York Died December 18, 1872 Honolulu, Hawaii Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Nancy J. Morris, Robert Benedetto Nā Kahu: Portraits of Native Hawaiian Pastors at Home and Abroad, 1820–1900 Ellis, William. A Narrative Tour of Hawaii London H. Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson; Hatchard and Son; Seeley and Son; Hamilton, Adams, and Company; Sherwood and Company; J. Nisbet; Simpkin and Marshall; and J. Duncan 1827 Thurston, Lucy. Life and Times of Lucy G. Thurston, S.C. Andrews, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1882 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource If you would like permission to publish or reproduce this material, please send your requests to archives@missionhouses.org Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Edwards Bishop Subject The topic of the resource Missionaries Biographies Hawaii Cemeteries Portraits Elizabeth Edwards Bishop Description An account of the resource Elizabeth Edwards Bishop (June 2, 1798 - February 21, 1828) Elizabeth Edwards Bishop’s death is well documented. We stand here at her headstone, a memorial that will forever name her as “The First Of The Missionary Band To Enter Into Rest.” She was the first adult death in the mission. In life, Mrs. Bishop was a vibrant woman. Those who knew her described her as intelligent, hardworking, and a pleasure to know. Elizabeth Edward’s mother and father both died when she was young, and Elizabeth became self dependent at an early age. She excelled in her schooling at Bradford, a co-educational institution in North-Eastern Massachusetts, and grew into a “cheerful,” “hopefully pious” young lady. There, she became close friends with a young Lucy Thurston, another future member of the missionary band. After some time as an educator, Elizabeth Edwards was introduced to Artemas Bishop. Both had applied for the Sandwich Islands Mission, him as a missionary and her as a missionary assistant. Both were accepted, and they were married less than two weeks before the ship set sail to Hawaiʻi in 1822. In a twist of fate, Elizabeth’s childhood friend, Lucy Thurston, was accepted as well, and they were reunited when the Bishops were stationed in Kailua-Kona in 1824. The pair were fast friends. According to Mrs. Thurston, Mr. Bishop said that the two of them were “so alike in their ideas and plans he thought we were born under the same planet.” For the next few years, Elizabeth was a hardworking missionary assistant in a state of good health. She “exerted herself” thoroughly in educational affairs, such as the day school and Sunday school, and regularly attended the Friday meeting for women. She and Artemas had two children, but the good times were not to last. After the birth of Sereno, her second child and only son, Elizabeth’s health began to decline. A doctor in Honolulu said that her illness was dyspepsia, a stomach ailment. A later exhumation showed that her lower spine was contorted into a prominent curve, one that must have caused her great suffering. Whatever the cause, the local doctor was not able to aid in her suffering. As Lucy told it, Elizabeth died peacefully. Near midnight on her last day, there was a lull in her pain. “‘Let me depart in peace’, she said calmly, and fell to sleep as peacefully as the infant in its mother’s arms.” She was 31 years old, and her son had just turned one. Sometime later, a letter was found tucked away in a secret drawer of Elizabeth’s writing desk. Dated October 10, 1816, the note was written by a Nanny Batchelder from Bradford Academy, six years before she would leave for Hawai’i and eleven before her death and presumably kept with her all that time. The note read: Miss Elizabeth Edwards. May guardian angels all your steps attend, And every blessing crown my dearest Friend, In every state may you most happy be And when far distant, sometimes think of me Elizabeth Edwards Bishop Born June 2, 1798, Marlborough, Massachusetts Died February 21, 1828, Kailua-Kona, Hawaiʻi “Bishop, Artemas - Missionary Letters - 1822 - Bishop, Elizabeth Edwards papers,” Hawaiian Mission Houses Digital Archive, accessed May 19, 2022, https://hmha.missionhouses.org/items/show/270. Forbes, D. W., Kam, R. T., & Woods, T. A. (2018). Elizabeth (Edwards) Bishop. In Partners in change: A biographical encyclopedia of American Protestant missionaries in hawai'i and their Hawaiian and Tahitian colleagues, 1820-1900. essay, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. Massachusetts. Board of Education. (1837). Bradford Academy, Bradford: Arranged from items furnished by Miss Annie E. Johnson, Principal. In Annual report of the Board of Education (Vol. 1875-76, pp. 262–264). essay, Boston, The Board. https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbo7576mass/page/n1/mode/2up Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource If you would like permission to publish or reproduce this material, please send your requests to archives@missionhouses.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource text https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/16a0b8b60b46c4180517669b26edff1e.jpg f6b015757c5523b66bd5030d7d3a3e3e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Weeping Woman Sculpture Subject The topic of the resource Hawaii Cemeteries Weeping Woman Stephan Abel Sinding Anna Charlotte Rice Cooke Description An account of the resource WEEPING WOMAN by Stephan Abel Sinding (4 August 1846 – 23 January 1922) This sculpture was designed and sculpted by famous Norwegian artist Stephan Sinding. It was cast in 1912 and is thought to have been commissioned by Anna Charlotte Rice Cooke, founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Her relative, Dora Isenberg, had commissioned a similar Sinding sculpture for a site in Lihue, Kauaʻi. We know that Anna Cooke was involved in the Isenberg commission, and it is surmised that she ordered this statue for the Mission Memorial Cemetery after she saw the one on Kauaʻi installed in 1911. Anna’s husband Charles Montague Cooke, Sr died in 1909 and is buried in this cemetery. As the cemetery is also the location of the Cooke family plot, it seems probable that she thought the sculpture a fitting memorial to the members of the Cooke family buried here. Anna Rice Cooke died in 1934 and is buried with her husband and his family. [For Anna Rice Cooke biography, see https://hmha.missionhouses.org/items/show/14043] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource If you would like permission to publish or reproduce this material, please send your requests to archives@missionhouses.org Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text/ jpeg/ QR code Type The nature or genre of the resource text/ image