History of Waimea, (Kauai County) Hawaii United States of America

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John Thomas Gulick, missionary, was born in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, March 13, 1832; son of Peter Johnson and Fanny Hinckley (Thomas) Gulick, and grandson of John Gulick, a farmer in New Jersey, descended from Hendrick Gulick, who came to America from the Netherlands in 1853. His mother was of English ancestry. His father was a missionary, born in Freehold, N.J., March 12, 1797; was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1825; attended the Princeton theological seminary, 1825-27, was ordained evangelist by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, October. 1827; was stationed in the Hawaiian Islands as missionary of the A.B.C.F.M., 1827-74, and died in Japan in December, 1877. John Thomas removed to Oregon in 1848, and was a miner in California, 1849-50. He returned to the Hawaiian Islands; made his large collection of Hawaiian land shells in 1851-53, and went to New York in 1853 by way of San Francisco and the Nicaragua route, which was then open. He attended the University of the city of New York, 1854-55; was graduated from Williams college in 1859, and was a student in the Union theological seminary, New York city, 1859-61. He was ordained a Congregational minister in Canton, China, Aug. 22, 1864, and was a missionary for the A.B.C.F.M. in Peking, China, 1864-65; in Kalgan. North China, 1865-75; in Kobe, Japan, 1875-82, and in Osaka, Japan, from 1882. He was in England and the United States on a furlough during 1872, and again in 1888-89, and in 1900 was in Oberlin, Ohio. He received the degree of A.M. from Williams college and that of Ph.D. from Adelbert college in 1889. He is the author of: The Diversity of Evolution under One Set of External Conditions (1872); Divergent Evolution through Cumulative Segregation (1887); Intensive Segregation (1889); in Linn?an Society's Journal of Zo?logy, Vols. XI., XX. and XXIII.); Divergent Evolution and the Darwinian Theory; The Inconsistencies of Utilitarianism; The Preservation and Accumulation of Cross Infertility (in American Journal of Science, January, July and December, 1890); and Descriptions of New Species of Land Mollusks of the Hawaiian Islands in the Proceedings of the New York lyceum of natural history.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Waimea, (Kauai County) Hawaii

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