The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-05-16
REV. EDWARD ToPP1N DoANE.

0D"dnO 4VfflN DUANE.
This honored missionary Father
went to rest from the house of Rev.
DIR. Hyde of this city, yesterday
morning at 8 o'clock, after an illness
OF more than three months, the
greater part of the time while voyag-
ing upon the Morning Star.
Mr.. Doane was within a few days
OF 20 years of age. He had been
thirty six years in missionary service
under the American Board, nearly
all Of it in Micronesia, in the Caro-
line and Marshall Islands, and nearly
twenty years on the island of Pona-
pc. He was engaged in the most
active labor, necessitated by the alb
sence or death of his associates, until
he fell i'll early in February while
visiting outlying missionary stations
on the Star.
We find Mr.. Doane's record in the
following dates: Born at Tompkins-
vile, on Staten Island, N. Y, May
80, 1920. Removing in childhood to
the West, he professed religion at
Niles, Michigan, in 1889. Fitting
for college at Quincy Mission Insti-
tute, he graduated at Illinois Col
lege, Jacksonville, in 1848, and at
Union Theol. Seminary, n. Y. city,
in 1852; was ordained missionary
February rs, 1854; married May Ii,
1854, to Miss Sarah Wells Wilbur;
and embarked for the Pacific, Bos-
ton, June 4, 1854, arriving at La
haina October -, 1854, and at Pona-
pc February 6, 1866, where he joined
in work with Messrs. Sturges and
Gulick, the pioneers of 1852. He re-
moved to Ebon Sin the Marshall Is.
December 5, 1857, where he labored
for five years in company with DIR.
Gulick and Mr.. Pierson as pioneer
missionaries, visiting the United
States in 1868. Mrs. Doane's health
failed during her residence on the
Ebon Atoll, and coming to Honolulu,
she died here February Ii, 1862. Mr..
Doane married again, and returning,
was wrecked on Roneador reef in the
Caribbean Sea May 30, 1866, but
reached Ponape September -, 1865.
Mrs. Doane's health totally failing,
she returned to the United States,
whittier her husband subsequently,
followed her, after one more years
sojourn in japan, employed there in
English instruction of q divinity
class. Mrs. Doane's health being
hopelessly unsettled, he left her and
his two children and returned in
1880 to Ponape, where he has been
ever since the leade-. in missionary
work. It will be remembered how
Mr.. Doane's name, about three
years ago, gained worldwide pro-
minence, in consequence of his ar
rest by the falatical Spanish Gov
ernor Of Ponape and his deportation
to Manila. Through the powerful
interposition of the American Gov
eminent, he was promptly restored
to his post of labor, where he i'm
mediately rendered the most vital
service in healing the breach be-
tween the natives and the Span
iards, after the massacre of the lat
ter by the former. Mr.. Rand work
ed nobly with Mr.. Doane in this.
Through the failure of Mr.. Rand's
health, Mr.. Doane has been alone
for two years past, and Mr.. Forbes
dying, who was sent last year to
his help, the old soldier has been
left unaided to bear the whole bur-
den of the mission and the native
churches. He has worked to the
last, and fallen in the harness. It
was only at the last moment that
he saw it his duty to leave his
field. But it was too late; after
three months of great weakness
and suffering, the old hero has gone
to his reward.
Mr.. Doane was q man OF very
noble and manly nature, as his
whole aspect and bearing showed
of great tenderness and sympathy
of broad, large minded nature-of
much personal power of attraction,
and of profound and heroic conse-
Grafton to the service OF his Lord
and King. He was utterly fearless,
and yet prudent and kind. In his
missionary work he had great spirit
Of enterprise, and was ever alert for
opportunities of extending the work
and occupying new fields.
MIR. Doane was most faithfully at
tended during his illness, to the last,
by Mr.. Oldham who came from Pc
nape with, and who has earned the
warm regard of Mr.. Doane's friends.
The funeral was attended by large
company Of friends in Kawaiahao
Church, the Rev. Messrs. Beckwith,
Parker, Lowell Smith, Bingham and
Bishop participating in the services.
The honored remains found their
last resting place in the Mission
cemetery by the side of those of the
wife and two infant children laid
there nearly thirty years ago thus
strangely reunited.
There remain to mourn for the
father son Of thirty-fours years on
the Pacific Coast, and married
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