Background
Daniel Dole was born September 9, 1808 in Skowhegan, Maine. His father was Wigglesworth Dole (1779–1845) and mother was Elizabeth Haskell.
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.
They sailed in the ninth company of missionaries to Hawaii from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions on the ship Gloucester, leaving from Boston on November 14, 1840 and arriving to Honolulu on May 21, 1841. Also in this company were John Davis Paris, Elias Bond, and William Harrison Rice. The school was the first to use the English language to educate children of missionaries instead of the Hawaiian language.
Academic politics also grew with the Punahou School"s enrollment.
Originally intended only for children of missionaries, allowed other non-Hawaiian children to enroll. 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 continued to teach through 1854, and then resigned.
The and Rice families moved to Kōloa on the island of Kauaʻi, and started a small boarding school there in 1855. He never learned the Hawaiian language, but conducted services at two small English language churches in the area.
He was buried in what is now the Līhuʻe cemetery.
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. In the 1870s he traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah and met Brigham Young. In 1890 George and his family moved to Riverside, California.
Daniel "s second wife was widow of Horton Owen Knapp, whose sister Millicent Knapp (1816–1891) married missionary doctor James William Smith (1810–1887).
The Smiths" son William Owen Smith would also become very active in politics. George and Sanford were both buried in the cemetery at Kawaiahaʻo Church near the Mission Houses Museum.
Oahu College changed its name back to Punahou School in 1934, and had many influential alumni through the years, including United States President Barack Obama.