Name/Title
Reverend Edward Griffin BeckwithDescription
From Rev Beckwith of Honolulu, postmarked from Honolulu, March 10, 1888 to Mrs. Sarah B Cooper, San Francisco, CA.
Doctor Beckwith was born at Great Barrington, Mass. November 14, 1826.
After graduating from college he went to the Hawaiian islands, where he was the principal of the royal school from 1852 to 1855, and president of the Oahu college from 1855 to 1859.
While there he married Caroline P. Armstrong, daughter of Rev. R. B. Armstrong, one of the most prominent missionaries of the islands.
About 1860 he came to San Francisco with his family, and was for five years the pastor of the Congregational church, which was organized about 1862 at the Mission.
He then went to Oakland, where he was for some years a professor in the Brayton preparatory school. Then for 10 years he was pastor of a prominent Congregational church in Waterbury, Conn.
Returning to San Francisco he was for five years more pastor of the Third Congregational church.
Thereafter he went to Honolulu, where he was pastor of the Central Union church from 1887 to 1894.
About 1894 he resigned the pastorate of the Central Union church and went to the island of Maul, where he led a quiet and retired life.Created By
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![For reference only: Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper (December 12, 1835 – December 11, 1896) was an American educator, author, evangelist, philanthropist, and civic activist. She is remembered as a religious teacher and for her efforts to increase the interest in kindergarten work. Cooper was the first president of the International Kindergarten Union, president of the National Kindergarten Union, president and vice-president of the Woman's Press Association, president of the Woman's Suffrage Association, and president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.[1]
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