Samuel Chenery Damon
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Samuel Chenery Damon February 15, 1815 Holden, Massachusetts |
| Died | February 7, 1885 (aged 69) Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Sherman Mills |
| Children |
Samuel Mills Damon four others |
Samuel Chenery Damon (February 15, 1815 – February 7, 1885) was a missionary to Hawaii, pastor of the Seamen's Bethel Church, chaplain of the Honolulu American Seamen's Friend Society and editor of the monthly newspaper The Friend.
Samuel Chenery Damon, son of Colonel Samuel Damon and Alony Chenery, was born in Holden, Massachusetts on February 15, 1815.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1836, studied at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1838-39, and graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1841. Before studying for the ministry, he was for a year principal of the academy at Salisbury, Connecticut, and while in the divinity school was tutor in a private family in Burlington, New Jersey.
He married Julia Sherman Mills (1817–1890) in Natick, Massachusetts on October 6, 1841, with whom he had five sons. She was daughter of Samuel John Mills (1783–1818), a minister who took part in the Haystack Prayer Meeting which led to forming the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Damon was preparing to go to India as a missionary and was studying the Tamil language for that purpose, when an urgent call came for a seaman's chaplain at the port of Honolulu in the Hawaiian islands. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry on September 15, 1841, and he decided to accept the position at Honolulu.
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