Charlotte Fowler Baldwin
Charlotte Fowler Baldwin (November 7, 1805 – October 2, 1873) was an American missionary. She was a member of the Fourth Company of missionaries sent to the Hawaiian Islands by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Early life
Charlotte Fowler was born in Northford, Connecticut, the daughter of Solomon Fowler and Olive Douglas Fowler. Her grandfather was William Douglas, a colonel in the Connecticut State Regiment during the American Revolutionary War; her mother's uncle was surveyor Jared Mansfield. Inventor and abolitionist Benjamin Douglas was her first cousin.[1] She was educated in New Haven, Connecticut.[2]
Career
Charlotte Fowler taught school in New Jersey as a young woman. She arrived in Hawaii in 1831, with her new husband, a medical missionary; they were members of the Fourth Company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Personal life
Charlotte Fowler married
Legacy
Baldwin's grandson
Family tree
Notes
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References
- ^ Harriet M. Damon, "Col. William Douglas" Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine (December 1914): 338-339.
- ^ a b c "Obituary" The Friend, or Advocate of Truth (November 1, 1873): 89.
- ^ Orramel Hinckley Gulick, Ann Eliza Clark Gulick , The Pilgrims of Hawaii: Their Own Story of Their Pilgrimage from New England and Life Work in the Sandwich Islands, Now Known as Hawaii (Fleming H. Revell Company 1918): 342.
- ^ Harriet Damon, "Extracts from the Reminiscences of the Missionaries Dr. and Mrs. Dwight Baldwin" The Friend (May 1920): 118-120, 133-134.
- ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Portraits of American Protestant Missionaries to Hawaii (Hawaiian Gazette Company 1901): 29.
- ^ Stuart Stark, "The Alexander and Baldwin Sugar Museum, Maui" Historic House Museums of Hawaii.
- Newspapers.com
- ^ "Baldwin Home Museum" Lahaina Restoration Foundation.
