Samuel Chapman Armstrong is well known for establishing Hampton Institute, the institution most involved with training black teachers in the South after the Civil War. It is less known that he was born in Hawai'i to the missionary couple Reverend Richard and Clarissa Chapman Armstrong. His parents were members of the Fifth Company of missionaries…

Discusses influence and cooperative efforts of Hawaiian and New England women on the success of the American mission in civilizing, Americanizing, and Christianizing the Hawaiian people (early 1820's). Without missionary women, it is unlikely the mission would have been readily received by Hawaiian women and therefore the Hawaiian men. (Author/JN)