1820s SIGNED HAWAII MISSIONARY HIRAM BINGHAM I LETTER !!! STAMPLESS + POEM !!!!!

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SEE ALL PHOTOS BELOW !!!! -- AMAZING FOLDED LETTER WITH AUTOGRAPH "H. BINGHAM." (Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869), was leader of the first group of Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands.) -- CIRCA 1820s-1830s, FOLDED LETTER IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, ALSO ENCLOSED 2 PAGE HAND WRITTEN POEM BY BINGHAM WHICH IS MENTIONED IN THE FOLDED LETTER, SENT TO"REV. E.W. & M.K. CLARK" (REVEREND EPHRAIM W CLARK) IN LAHAINALUNA (A missionary who had come to the islands in the third company in 1828, but did not become associated with the Maui work until 1835 was the Rev. Ephraim W. Clark from Peacham, Vermont. Mr. Clark labored at Lahainaluna until 1843, at which time he moved to Wailuku, serving the cause there until 1848, when he became pastor of the Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu. After a 15 years' pastorate, he resigned in 1863 and died in 1878 in Chicago.) --- SPECTACULAR EARLY HAWAIIANA !!! ----- AMAZING ITEM !! --------------- SEE PHOTO, NO RESERVE, SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $5.00 IN USA (INCLUDES INSURANCE) OR $15.00 FOREIGN (INCLUDES REGISTERED MAIL). I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY. CHECK MY VERY HIGH FEEDBACK !! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869), was leader of the first group of Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands. Bingham was descended from Deacon Thomas Bingham who had come to the American colonies in 1650 and settled in Connecticut. He was born October 30, 1789 in Bennington, Vermont. He was one of thirteen children of his father Calvin Bingham and mother Lydia.[1] He attended Middlebury College and the Andover Theological Seminary.[2] He broke off an engagement and found a new bride, Sybil Mosley, in order to become a missionary. On October 23, 1819 he was sent from Boston aboard the brig Thaddeus along with Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston to lead a mission by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.[3] Bingham and his wife arrived first on the Island of Hawaii in 1820, and then sailed on to Honolulu April 19. In 1823, Queen Kaʻahumanu and six high chiefs requested baptism. Soon after, the government banned prostitution and drunkenness, which resulted in the shipping industry and the foreign community resenting Bingham's impact.[4] Bingham was involved in the creation of the spelling system for the Hawaiian Language and also translated some books of the Bible into Hawaiian.[5] Bingham designed the Kawaiahaʻo Church in Honolulu on the Hawaiian Island of Oʻahu. The church was constructed between 1836 and 1842 in the New England style of the Hawaiian missionaries and is one of the oldest standing Christian places of worship in Hawaiʻi. Bingham also has a math building in Punahou School named after him. The board grew concerned that he was interfering too often in Hawaiian politics. The Binghams left August 3, 1840 and returned to New England February 4, 1841.[6] for what was intended to be a sabbatical due to Sybil's poor health, but the board refused to reappoint him as a missionary even after Sybil's death on February 27, 1848. He published a memoir, A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands in 1847.[7] He remained in New England as the pastor of an African American church. He remarried to Naomi Morse in 1852, who ran a girl's school. He died November 11, 1869 and was buried at Grove Street Cemetery, in New Haven, Connecticut. Leonard Bacon gave the address at his funeral.[1] Background Christianity Protestantism Missions timeline Missionaries South Pacific Hawaii Missionary agencies London Missionary Society American Board Church Missionary Society Baptist Missionary Society This box: view · talk · edit Christianity portal Bingham's son, Hiram Bingham II, was also a missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. His daughter Lydia married the later Hawaiian mi... read more

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