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    Asa Thurston (October 12, 1787 – March 11, 1868) was a Protestant missionary from the United States who was part of the first company of American Christian...
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    His father was Asa Goodale Thurston and mother Sarah Andrews. On his father's side he was grandson of Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston, who were in the...
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    couple sailed out of Boston aboard the brig Thaddeus along with Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston to lead a mission in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) for the American...
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  • "settlement"). Asa Thurston (1787–1868), American missionary in Hawaii Baratunde Thurston (born 1977), American comedian Colin Thurston (1947–2007), English...
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    within the borders of the national park. Lorrin A. Thurston, grandson of the American missionary Asa Thurston, was one of the driving forces behind the establishment...
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    Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (September 28, 1821 – April 20, 1906) was a painter and sketch artist. Her parents, Reverend Asa Thurston (1787–1868) and...
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    Lucy Goodale Thurston (October 29, 1795 – October 13, 1876) was a Protestant missionary and author. She was the wife of Asa Thurston and was one of the...
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    I Rev. Asa Thurston (1787–1868), grandfather of businessman and politician Lorrin A. Thurston Lucy Goodale (1795–1876), wife of Asa Thurston The second...
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  • Abner Hale is a caricature of true-life missionary Hiram Bingham I. Asa Thurston was also a model for a missionary character in the novel. Chinn Ho, the...
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    No official records were kept, but Lorrin A. Thurston (the grandson of American missionaries Asa Thurston and Lorrin Andrews) drafted the group's constitution...
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    with Vicious Rumors and 7th Order Asa Thurston (1787–1868), in first company of missionaries to Hawaii Lorrin A. Thurston, grandson of missionaries, leader...
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  • Carter Twigg-Smith (née Thurston) (1895–1976). He was the great-great-grandson of two missionary couples: Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston and Lorrin Andrews...
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  • New England Christian missionaries including Reverends Hiram Bingham, Asa Thurston, Lorrin Andrews, and Sheldon Dibble from 1800-1850. The Gospels (Matthew...
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    became the 32nd Governor of Connecticut and a United States Senator. Asa Thurston - Class of 1818 - First American Christian Missionary to the Hawaiian...
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    missionaries to the Hawaiʻi arrived on April 4, 1820. The rock where Asa Thurston and Hiram Bingham I landed was later called the "Plymouth Rock of Hawaii"...
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    served in the House of Nobles. He gave land to missionaries, such as Asa Thurston to build Mokuʻaikaua Church, and others on the island. He extended a...
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  • Sarah (Sally) Newcomb Whitney Thurston is an American biostatistician and environmental statistician whose research involves the application of Bayesian...
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    first governor of Kansas Sylvanus Sawyer, inventor and manufacturer Asa Thurston, Hawaiian missionary Oskari Tokoi, editor of Raivaaja Calvin M. Woodward...
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    daughter Mary Ellen (1844–1930). Sarah would marry Asa Goodale Thurston, son of Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston, earlier missionaries from the first company to...
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    Honolulu in 1909, he was approached by businessman Lorrin A. Thurston (grandson of Asa Thurston who was on the 1823 missionary tour) about building a full-time...
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    completed in 1837. The congregation was first founded in 1820 by Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston, from the first ship of American Christian Missionaries, the...
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    pardoned. Within a year, American Christian Protestant missionaries such as Asa Thurston and Hiram Bingham arrived, and the culture was forever changed. There...
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    February 14, 1886. Lucy Goodale Thurston (1872). Life and Times of Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston: Wife of Rev. Asa Thurston, Pioneer Missionary to the Sandwich...
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    Richards Thomas Staley Betsey Stockton John M. Systermans Asa Thurston Lucy Goodale Thurston Abner Wilcox Alfred Willis Native Christians Abraham Akaka...
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    1798–1865), former slave, Lāhainā, Maui (Sandwich Islands) (1822 to 1825) Asa Thurston (1787–1868), Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Daniel Sabin Butrick (1789–1851), Cherokee...
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    Waialea Beach and the General Store, are some noted places in Puako. Asa Thurston and the Mokuaikaua Church he built Hiram Bingham and Kawaiahao Church...
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  • author Roy M. Terry, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force Asa Thurston (1816), one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the...
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    Kaʻawaloa, along with the first missionaries to the island, Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston. By 1824 they would send a boat to Kailua for a preacher to...
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  • Washington, D.C., was renamed in his honor in 1893. Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston, class of 1816, were the first missionaries to Hawaii, where they devised...
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    Goodale Thurston (1860–1885), granddaughter of missionaries Asa Thurston, Lucy Goodale Thurston, and Lorrin Andrews, and sister of Lorrin Andrews Thurston. Ellen...
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