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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 missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands with his wife Lucy Goodale Thurston.
Jun 22, 2017 · Rev. Asa Thurston - Christian missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii in the early 1800's.
Two of the Massachusetts missionaries were Asa Thurston, born Oct. 12, 1787 in Fitchburg, MA and his wife of Marlboro, MA (now Hudson, MA). I spent 3 years digging Asa Thurston's homestead while teaching school children about archaeology. Only the foundation remains.
Asa Thurston was a Protestant missionary from the United States who was part of the first company of American Christian missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands with his wife Lucy Goodale Thurston.
Mar 10, 2018 · Now Asa Thurston began to feel the effect of character and environment. With a deeply affectionate disposition, fond of music, a natural lover of pleasure, and possessed of a keen sense of humor, he had also a tender conscience and a vein of strong and serious feeling.”.
Sep 23, 2019 · “It was on September 29, 1819, that people interested in the starting of the Sandwich Island mission gathered in the Goshen Congregational church to witness the ordination of Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston.”
Reverend Asa and Lucy Thurston were in the first company of American Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands, arriving in Kailua-Kona on the Thaddeus in 1820. They made their home in Kailua Village, in a home the Hawaiians named Laniākea.
