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{{Short description|American minister}}
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1801|2|1}}
|birth_date = {{birth date|1801|2|1}}
|birth_place = [[Killingworth, Connecticut]]
|birth_place = [[Killingworth, Connecticut]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1881|12|1|1801|2|1}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|1882|12|1|1801|2|1}}
|death_place = [[Hilo, Hawaii]]
|death_place = [[Hilo, Hawaii]]
|spouse = Fidelia Church<br>Lydia Bingham
|spouse = {{plainlist|
* Fidelia Church
* Lydia Bingham
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|children = Titus Munson, Harriet Fidelia, Sarah Eliza, Samuel Latimer
|children = Titus Munson, Harriet Fidelia, Sarah Eliza, Samuel Latimer
|occupation = Missionary
|occupation = Missionary
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}}
'''Titus Coan''' (February 1, 1801 – December 1, 1881) was an American minister from [[New England]] who spent most of his life as a Christian missionary to the [[Hawaiian Islands]].
'''Titus Coan''' (February 1, 1801 – December 1, 1882) was an American minister from [[New England]] who spent most of his life as a Christian missionary to the [[Hawaiian Islands]].


==Early life and family==
==Early life and family==
Titus Coan was born on February 1, 1801 in [[Killingworth, Connecticut]], the son of Gaylord Coan and Tamza Nettleton. In June 1831, he entered the [[Auburn Theological Seminary]] in [[Auburn, New York]], and was ordained in April 1833. In August of that year he sailed on a mission to [[Patagonia]] for the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]].
Titus Coan was born on February 1, 1801, in [[Killingworth, Connecticut]], the son of Gaylord Coan and Tamza Nettleton. In June 1831, he entered the [[Auburn Theological Seminary]] in [[Auburn, New York]], and was ordained in April 1833. In August of that year he sailed on a mission to [[Patagonia]] for the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]].


In 1834 Coan returned to the United States, where he married Fidelia Church. In December 1834 they left on the merchant ship ''Hellespont'', part of the seventh company from the American Board to the [[Hawaiian Islands]], then known as the "Sandwich Islands", arriving on June 6, 1835.<ref>{{cite book |title=The pilgrims of Hawaii: their own story of their pilgrimage from New England |author=Orramel Hinckley Gulick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehE3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA341 |page=344 |publisher=Fleming H. Revell company |year=1918}}</ref>
In 1834 Coan returned to the United States, where he married Fidelia Church. In December 1834 they left on the merchant ship ''Hellespont'', part of the seventh company from the American Board to the [[Hawaiian Islands]], then known as the "Sandwich Islands", arriving on June 6, 1835.<ref>{{cite book |title=The pilgrims of Hawaii: their own story of their pilgrimage from New England |author=Orramel Hinckley Gulick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehE3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA341 |page=344 |publisher=Fleming H. Revell company |year=1918}}</ref>


Their son Titus Munson Coan, born in 1836, became a physician who served in the [[American Civil War]] and died in 1921. Daughter Harriet Fidelia was born in 1839 and died in 1906. Daughter Sarah Eliza was born in 1843 and died in 1916. Son Samuel Latimer Coan was born 1846 and died in 1887. The mother Fidelia died in September 1872.<ref>{{cite book |title=Descendants of Captain Samuel Church, of Churchville |author=Etta A. Emens |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmU7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA39 |publisher=Higginson Book Company |year=1920 }}</ref>
Their son Titus Munson Coan, born in 1836, became a physician who served in the [[American Civil War]] and died in 1921.<ref>{{Cite BDA1906 |wstitle= Coan, Titus Munson |volume= 2 |page=302 |short=}}</ref> Daughter Harriet Fidelia was born in 1839 and died in 1906. Daughter Sarah Eliza was born in 1843 and died in 1916. Son Samuel Latimer Coan was born 1846 and died in 1887. The mother Fidelia died in September 1872.<ref>{{cite book |title=Descendants of Captain Samuel Church, of Churchville |author=Etta A. Emens |url=https://archive.org/details/descendantscapt00emengoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/descendantscapt00emengoog/page/n52 39] |publisher=Higginson Book Company |year=1920 }}</ref>


Coan married second to Lydia Bingham, the daughter of the Rev. [[Hiram Bingham I]] (an earlier missionary), on October 13, 1873. He completed his autobiography in 1881, the year he died. His book was digitized in 1997 by his great-great grandson Edward J. Coan.<ref name="coan">{{Cite book | title = Life in Hawaii | last = Coan| first = Titus | year = 1882| publisher = Anson Randolph & Company | location = New York | url =http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/COAN/coan-intro.html }}</ref>
Coan married second to Lydia Bingham, the daughter of the Rev. [[Hiram Bingham I]] (an earlier missionary), on October 13, 1873. He completed his autobiography in 1881, the year before he died. His book was digitized in 1997 by his great-great grandson Edward J. Coan.<ref name="coan">{{Cite book | title = Life in Hawaii | last = Coan| first = Titus | year = 1882| publisher = Anson Randolph & Company | location = New York | url =http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/COAN/coan-intro.html }}</ref>
[[Image:Haili Church, Hilo.jpg|220px|thumb|left|Haili Church today]]
[[Image:Haili Church, Hilo.jpg|220px|thumb|left|Haili Church today]]


==Work==
==Work==
The Coans arrived in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] in June 1835. They sailed to [[Hilo, Hawaii]] in July, where they stayed most of the rest of their lives. He learned the [[Hawaiian Language]] and helped educate the residents of the area and recruit them into Christianity. When the [[United States Exploring Expedition]] visited Hilo in 1840–1841, Coan met the geologist [[James Dwight Dana]]. Over the next four decades they corresponded, and Coan regularly sent Dana observations of eruptions of volcanoes on Hawaii.<ref name="darwin"/> These contributed to Dana's development of the [[Hawaii hotspot]] theory for the geologic evolution of the island chain.
The Coans arrived in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], in June 1835. They sailed to [[Hilo, Hawaii]], in July, where they stayed most of the rest of their lives. He learned the [[Hawaiian Language]] and helped educate the residents of the area and recruit them into Christianity. When the [[United States Exploring Expedition]] visited Hilo in 1840–1841, Coan met the geologist [[James Dwight Dana]]. Over the next four decades they corresponded, and Coan regularly sent Dana observations of eruptions of volcanoes on Hawaii.<ref name="darwin"/> These contributed to Dana's development of the [[Hawaii hotspot]] theory for the geologic evolution of the island chain.


His book includes descriptions of the heavy tropical rains, eruptions of the [[Kilauea|Kīlauea]] volcano, earthquakes, and [[tsunami]]s, such as the one caused by the [[1868 Hawaii earthquake]].
His book includes descriptions of the heavy tropical rains, eruptions of the [[Kilauea|Kīlauea]] volcano, earthquakes, and [[tsunami]]s, such as the one caused by the [[1868 Hawaii earthquake]].
Coan was known as "the bishop of Kilauea," and his observations were invaluable to subsequent scientists. Both Fidelia and his second wife Lydia wrote a piece about the volcano, as well as his sons, Titus M. and Samuel.<ref name="darwin">{{cite news |title=Missionary Contributions to Hawaiian Natural History: What Darwin Didn't Know |work=Hawaii Journal of History |author=E. Allison Kay |year=1997 |publisher=Hawaiian Historical Society, Honolulu |volume=31 |pages=27–52 |hdl=10524/170}}</ref>
Coan was known as "the bishop of Kilauea," and his observations were invaluable to subsequent scientists. Both Fidelia and his second wife Lydia wrote a piece about the volcano, as well as his sons, Titus M. and Samuel.<ref name="darwin">{{cite news |title=Missionary Contributions to Hawaiian Natural History: What Darwin Didn't Know |work=Hawaii Journal of History |author=E. Allison Kay |year=1997 |publisher=Hawaiian Historical Society, Honolulu |volume=31 |pages=27–52 |hdl=10524/170}}</ref>
Fidelia Coan was among the first American women to publish in a scientific journal: an 1852 article in the ''[[American Journal of Science]]''.<ref>{{cite news |author=Fidelia C. Coan |title=Eruption from the summit of Mauna Loa, Hawaii |publisher= [[American Journal of Science]], 2nd series |volume=14 |year=1852 |pages=106–107 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=heycAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA107&ots=R4qm1fd9QZ&pg=PA107#v=onepage&f=false }}</ref>
Fidelia Coan was among the first American women to publish in a scientific journal: an 1852 article in the ''[[American Journal of Science]]''.<ref>{{cite news |author=Fidelia C. Coan |title=Eruption from the summit of Mauna Loa, Hawaii |publisher= [[American Journal of Science]], 2nd series |volume=14 |year=1852 |pages=106–107 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=heycAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA107 }}</ref>


Titus Coan directed the construction of [[Haili Church]] from 1855 to 1859. He visited the [[Marquesas Islands]] in 1860 and 1867. From 1870-1871, he and Fidelia returned to the United States, where they gave an extensive speaking tour.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E2DC153DE533A25756C0A9679C94629FD7CF |title=The late Dr. Coan; Brief Sketch of the Life of the Old Missionary |date=January 5, 1883 |work=[[New York Times]] archives | format=PDF}}</ref>
Titus Coan directed the construction of [[Haili Church]] from 1855 to 1859. He visited the [[Marquesas Islands]] in 1860 and 1867. From 1870-1871, he and Fidelia returned to the United States, where they gave an extensive speaking tour.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1883/01/05/103433578.pdf |title=The late Dr. Coan; Brief Sketch of the Life of the Old Missionary |date=January 5, 1883 |work=[[New York Times]] archives }}</ref>


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}
*Corr, Donald Philip, "Titus Coan: 'Apostle to the Sandwich Islands'" in Putney, Clifford and Burlin Paul, ''The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization's Missionary Work, 1810–2010'' (Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2012)
*Corr, Donald Philip, "Titus Coan: 'Apostle to the Sandwich Islands'" in Putney, Clifford and Burlin Paul, ''The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization's Missionary Work, 1810–2010'' (Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2012)
*Forbes, Cam, Woods. ''Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawai`i and their Hawaiian and Tahitian Colleagues, 1820-1900 (Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, 2018).
Titus Coan, Fidelia Coan and Lydia Coan on pages 184-90.
*Corr, Phil, "Titus Coan: 'Apostle to the Sandwich Islands.'" Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2021


==External links==
==External links==
{{BDA1906 poster|Coan, Titus}}
*[http://www.hailichurch.org/ Haili Congregational Church], official web site
*[http://www.hailichurch.org/ Haili Congregational Church], official web site
*[http://life.helps7.com/ Life In Hawaii], Link to Web version of Titus Coan's autobiography with many quotes and links on that site by him or about him.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20141221235819/http://life.helps7.com/ Life In Hawaii], Link to Web version of Titus Coan's autobiography with many quotes and links on that site by him or about him.
*[http://mem.helps7.com/ Titus Coan - A Memorial], Link to Web version of a biography written by his 2nd wife Lydia Bingham Coan containing many of his personal letters.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20141222000024/http://mem.helps7.com/ Titus Coan - A Memorial], Link to Web version of a biography written by his 2nd wife Lydia Bingham Coan containing many of his personal letters.
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Revision as of 15:59, 18 June 2024

Titus Coan
Born(1801-02-01)February 1, 1801
Killingworth, Connecticut
DiedDecember 1, 1882(1882-12-01) (aged 81)
Hilo, Hawaii
OccupationMissionary
Spouses
  • Fidelia Church
  • Lydia Bingham
ChildrenTitus Munson, Harriet Fidelia, Sarah Eliza, Samuel Latimer

Titus Coan (February 1, 1801 – December 1, 1882) was an American minister from New England who spent most of his life as a Christian missionary to the Hawaiian Islands.

Early life and family

Titus Coan was born on February 1, 1801, in Killingworth, Connecticut, the son of Gaylord Coan and Tamza Nettleton. In June 1831, he entered the Auburn Theological Seminary in Auburn, New York, and was ordained in April 1833. In August of that year he sailed on a mission to Patagonia for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

In 1834 Coan returned to the United States, where he married Fidelia Church. In December 1834 they left on the merchant ship Hellespont, part of the seventh company from the American Board to the Hawaiian Islands, then known as the "Sandwich Islands", arriving on June 6, 1835.[1]

Their son Titus Munson Coan, born in 1836, became a physician who served in the American Civil War and died in 1921.[2] Daughter Harriet Fidelia was born in 1839 and died in 1906. Daughter Sarah Eliza was born in 1843 and died in 1916. Son Samuel Latimer Coan was born 1846 and died in 1887. The mother Fidelia died in September 1872.[3]

Coan married second to Lydia Bingham, the daughter of the Rev. Hiram Bingham I (an earlier missionary), on October 13, 1873. He completed his autobiography in 1881, the year before he died. His book was digitized in 1997 by his great-great grandson Edward J. Coan.[4]

Haili Church today

Work

The Coans arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii, in June 1835. They sailed to Hilo, Hawaii, in July, where they stayed most of the rest of their lives. He learned the Hawaiian Language and helped educate the residents of the area and recruit them into Christianity. When the United States Exploring Expedition visited Hilo in 1840–1841, Coan met the geologist James Dwight Dana. Over the next four decades they corresponded, and Coan regularly sent Dana observations of eruptions of volcanoes on Hawaii.[5] These contributed to Dana's development of the Hawaii hotspot theory for the geologic evolution of the island chain.

His book includes descriptions of the heavy tropical rains, eruptions of the Kīlauea volcano, earthquakes, and tsunamis, such as the one caused by the 1868 Hawaii earthquake. Coan was known as "the bishop of Kilauea," and his observations were invaluable to subsequent scientists. Both Fidelia and his second wife Lydia wrote a piece about the volcano, as well as his sons, Titus M. and Samuel.[5] Fidelia Coan was among the first American women to publish in a scientific journal: an 1852 article in the American Journal of Science.[6]

Titus Coan directed the construction of Haili Church from 1855 to 1859. He visited the Marquesas Islands in 1860 and 1867. From 1870-1871, he and Fidelia returned to the United States, where they gave an extensive speaking tour.[7]

References

  1. ^ Orramel Hinckley Gulick (1918). The pilgrims of Hawaii: their own story of their pilgrimage from New England. Fleming H. Revell company. p. 344.
  2. ^ Wikisource Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Coan, Titus Munson". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 2. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 302.
  3. ^ Etta A. Emens (1920). Descendants of Captain Samuel Church, of Churchville. Higginson Book Company. p. 39.
  4. ^ Coan, Titus (1882). Life in Hawaii. New York: Anson Randolph & Company.
  5. ^ a b E. Allison Kay (1997). "Missionary Contributions to Hawaiian Natural History: What Darwin Didn't Know". Hawaii Journal of History. Vol. 31. Hawaiian Historical Society, Honolulu. pp. 27–52. hdl:10524/170.
  6. ^ Fidelia C. Coan (1852). "Eruption from the summit of Mauna Loa, Hawaii". Vol. 14. American Journal of Science, 2nd series. pp. 106–107.
  7. ^ "The late Dr. Coan; Brief Sketch of the Life of the Old Missionary" (PDF). New York Times archives. January 5, 1883.
  • Corr, Donald Philip, "Titus Coan: 'Apostle to the Sandwich Islands'" in Putney, Clifford and Burlin Paul, The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization's Missionary Work, 1810–2010 (Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2012)
  • Forbes, Cam, Woods. Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawai`i and their Hawaiian and Tahitian Colleagues, 1820-1900 (Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, 2018).

Titus Coan, Fidelia Coan and Lydia Coan on pages 184-90.

  • Corr, Phil, "Titus Coan: 'Apostle to the Sandwich Islands.'" Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2021
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