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2 unusual facts about Henry Opukahaia


Henry Opukahaia

Samuel B. Ruggles, one of the First Company of missionaries to Hawaii and a fellow student of `Ōpūkaha`ia at Cornwall, mentions in an 1819 letter that his own grammar (which does survive) was ‘much assisted by one which `Ōpūkaha`ia attempted to form’.

This inspired the founding of the Foreign Mission School in 1816, administered from Boston by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).



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