Daniel Dole
Daniel Dole | |
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Kapaʻa, Kauaʻi, Hawaiian Kingdom | |
Occupation(s) | Missionary, Teacher |
Known for | Punahou School |
Spouses |
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Children | George Hathaway Dole Sanford Ballard Dole |
Parent(s) | Wigglesworth Dole Elizabeth Haskell |
Daniel Dole (September 9, 1808 – August 26, 1878) was a
Life
Daniel Dole was born September 9, 1808, in Skowhegan, Maine. His father was Wigglesworth Dole (1779–1845) and mother was Elizabeth Haskell. In 1836 he graduated from Bowdoin College, and in 1839 from the Bangor Theological Seminary.[1] On October 2, 1840, he married Emily Hoyt Ballard (1808–1844). They sailed in the ninth company of
Punahou School was just being organized at the time on land given to Hiram Bingham I. Dole, his wife, and Marcia Smith were its first teachers when it opened on July 11, 1842, and Dole became principal as faculty grew. William Harrison Rice and his wife were added in 1844.[3] The school was the first to use the English language to educate children of missionaries instead of the Hawaiian language. After his first wife died from childbirth complications on April 27, 1844, he married Charlotte Close Knapp (1813–1874) in 1846.[4]
Academic politics also grew with the Punahou School's enrollment. Originally intended only for children of missionaries, Dole allowed other non-Hawaiian children to enroll. Dole responded to cutbacks in funding by employing students to grow their own food. By May 23, 1853, the school was re-chartered with the name Oahu College, administered by a board of trustees and in September, Reverend Edward Griffin Beckwith was named president.[3] Dole continued to teach through 1854, and then resigned. The Dole and Rice families moved to Kōloa on the island of Kauaʻi, and started a small boarding school there in 1855. His first students were his two sons and the Rices' daughter Maria.[5] He never learned the Hawaiian language, but conducted services at two small English language churches in the area.[6] He died in his son George's house in
Legacy
His first son George Hathaway Dole (1842–1912) married Clara Maria Rowell (1847–1916), George became a soldier in the Hawaiian Royal Guard in 1874, and was appointed to the House of Nobles in the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom representing Kauaʻi in the 1887 session.[11] In the 1870s he traveled to
His second son,
Oahu College changed its name back to Punahou School in 1934, and had
References
- ^ Nehemiah Cleaveland; Alpheus Spring Packard (1882). History of Bowdoin college: With biographical sketches of its graduates, from 1806 to 1879, inclusive. J. R. Osgood & Company. p. 487.
- ^ a b Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (1901). Portraits of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii. Honolulu: Hawaiian gazette company. p. 73.
- ^ a b William DeWitt Alexander (1907). Oahu college: list of trustees, presidents, instructors, matrons, librarians, superintendents of grounds and students, 1841-1906. Historical sketch of Oahu college. Hawaiian Gazette Company. pp. 4–5.
- ^ "Snow, Lydia Vose Buck (1820-1887). Collection, 1851-1980s (bulk 1851-1890)". Congregational Library web site. Congregational Christian Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
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- ^ a b William Disbro (November 6, 2001). "Mission Houses Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii". Retrieved September 7, 2010.
- ^ "Kauai (1826-1910) marriage record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Retrieved September 7, 2010.
- ^ Lane Genealogies ...: William Lane, Dorchester, Mass., 1635. Robert Lane, Stratford, Conn., 1660; John Lane, Milford, Conn., 1642; John Merrifield Lane, Boston, Mass., 1752; Daniel Lane, New London, Conn., 1651; George Lane, Rye, New York, 1664. The News-letter press. 1897. p. 170.
- ^ "Dole, George H. office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
- ^ "Inventory of the George H. Dole Papers, 1846-1902" (PDF). Online Archive of California. Huntington Library. 1998. Retrieved September 7, 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-307-38341-9.
- ISBN 978-1-4000-4360-6.