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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,…

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Anna Charlotte Rice Cooke (September 5, 1853 - August 8, 1934)

Anna Rice Cooke founded the wonderful Honolulu Museum of Art. The youngest child of missionaries William and Mary Sophia Rice, she lived a simple life as a child but later traveled,…

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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,…

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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…
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