Graduated from Western Reserve College (1840) and Ohio’s Lane Seminary (1843).
Arrived in the Hawaiian Islands on July 15, 1844, with the Eleventh Company of American missionaries on the brig Globe under the command of Captain Doane.
Served at Moloka‘i’s Kalua‘aha mission station (1844—1848), which was established in 1832.
Served at Maui’s Lahainaluna School (1848—1849), which was founded in 1831 by American Protestant missionaries as a seminary of advanced education for young Hawaiian men, with an overarching missionary goal of advancing Christianity.
Married Anne Seward Gilson during a visit to the United States Mainland (1849—1851)
Claudius and Anne both served at Kalua‘aha mission station (1852—1856), and then again at Lahainaluna (1856—1860).
They had seven children. Claudius retired from mission work in 1860 and moved to Makawao, bought land above Makawao in 1861, and there he established the East Maui Female Seminary (later called Maunaolo [Mauna‘olo] Seminary.
After his wife passed away in 1862, Claudius married his wife’s sister, Samantha Washburn Gilson (his wife had requested this union before her passing); remained at Makawao and also worked at Lahainaluna until 1876 when he visited the United States with his wife; passed away en route back to the Hawaiian Islands.
Arrived in the Hawaiian Islands on July 15, 1844, with the Eleventh Company of American missionaries on the brig Globe under the command of Captain Doane.
Served at Moloka‘i’s Kalua‘aha mission station (1844—1848), which was established in 1832.
Served at Maui’s Lahainaluna School (1848—1849), which was founded in 1831 by American Protestant missionaries as a seminary of advanced education for young Hawaiian men, with an overarching missionary goal of advancing Christianity.
Married Anne Seward Gilson during a visit to the United States Mainland (1849—1851)
Claudius and Anne both served at Kalua‘aha mission station (1852—1856), and then again at Lahainaluna (1856—1860).
They had seven children. Claudius retired from mission work in 1860 and moved to Makawao, bought land above Makawao in 1861, and there he established the East Maui Female Seminary (later called Maunaolo [Mauna‘olo] Seminary.
After his wife passed away in 1862, Claudius married his wife’s sister, Samantha Washburn Gilson (his wife had requested this union before her passing); remained at Makawao and also worked at Lahainaluna until 1876 when he visited the United States with his wife; passed away en route back to the Hawaiian Islands.
Graduated from Western Reserve College (1840) and Ohio’s Lane Seminary (1843).
Arrived in the Hawaiian Islands on July 15, 1844, with the Eleventh Company of American missionaries on the brig Globe under the command of Captain Doane.
Served at Moloka‘i’s Kalua‘aha mission station (1844—1848), which was established in 1832.
Served at Maui’s Lahainaluna School (1848—1849), which was founded in 1831 by American Protestant missionaries as a seminary of advanced education for young Hawaiian men, with an overarching missionary goal of advancing Christianity.
Married Anne Seward Gilson during a visit to the United States Mainland (1849—1851)
Claudius and Anne both served at Kalua‘aha mission station (1852—1856), and then again at Lahainaluna (1856—1860).
They had seven children. Claudius retired from mission work in 1860 and moved to Makawao, bought land above Makawao in 1861, and there he established the East Maui Female Seminary (later called Maunaolo [Mauna‘olo] Seminary.
After his wife passed away in 1862, Claudius married his wife’s sister, Samantha Washburn Gilson (his wife had requested this union before her passing); remained at Makawao and also worked at Lahainaluna until 1876 when he visited the United States with his wife; passed away en route back to the Hawaiian Islands.
Arrived in the Hawaiian Islands on July 15, 1844, with the Eleventh Company of American missionaries on the brig Globe under the command of Captain Doane.
Served at Moloka‘i’s Kalua‘aha mission station (1844—1848), which was established in 1832.
Served at Maui’s Lahainaluna School (1848—1849), which was founded in 1831 by American Protestant missionaries as a seminary of advanced education for young Hawaiian men, with an overarching missionary goal of advancing Christianity.
Married Anne Seward Gilson during a visit to the United States Mainland (1849—1851)
Claudius and Anne both served at Kalua‘aha mission station (1852—1856), and then again at Lahainaluna (1856—1860).
They had seven children. Claudius retired from mission work in 1860 and moved to Makawao, bought land above Makawao in 1861, and there he established the East Maui Female Seminary (later called Maunaolo [Mauna‘olo] Seminary.
After his wife passed away in 1862, Claudius married his wife’s sister, Samantha Washburn Gilson (his wife had requested this union before her passing); remained at Makawao and also worked at Lahainaluna until 1876 when he visited the United States with his wife; passed away en route back to the Hawaiian Islands.
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