William Harrison Rice
| William Harrison Rice | |
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Circa 1856
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| Born |
October 12, 1813 Oswego, New York |
| Died | May 27, 1862 (aged 48) Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi |
| Occupation | Teacher, Planter |
| Known for | Punahou School |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Sophia Hyde |
| Children |
William Hyde Rice Anna Charlotte Rice Three others |
William Harrison Rice (October 12, 1813 – May 26, 1862) was a missionary teacher from the United States who traveled to the Hawaiian Islands and managed an early sugarcane plantation.
William Harrison Rice was born on October 12, 1813 in Oswego, New York on the shore of Lake Ontario. His father was Joseph Rice and mother Sally Rice. On September 29, 1840 he married Mary Sophia Hyde, who was born on October 11, 1816. Her father was Jabez Backus Hyde, a missionary to the Seneca nation in western New York State near current-day Buffalo, New York, and mother was Jerusha Aiken Hyde. Reverend Hyde performed the wedding ceremony. The Rices sailed in the ninth company of missionaries to Hawaii from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions on the ship Gloucester, leaving from Boston on November 14, 1840 and arriving to Honolulu on May 21, 1841. Also in this company were John Davis Paris, Elias Bond, and Daniel Dole. The Rice and Paris families were intending to proceed to Oregon Territory, but after being told of Indian uprisings at the Whitman Mission, decided to stay in Hawaii.
Their first posting after learning the Hawaiian language was the remote Wānanalua mission station in the Hana district, on the eastern coast of the island of Maui. Reverend Daniel Conde had founded the station in 1838, but was holding services in a traditional Hawaiian thatched building. The native Hawaiians were put to work building a stone building starting in 1842, which still stands.
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