The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-22
COUSINS" HOLD
HAPPY REUNION

At the reunion Of the Hawaiian Mis-.
sion Childrens Society, held at the
old mission house, Kawaiahao, on Sat
urda afternoon, the roll call Of the
first three companies of missionaries
showed their respective descendants
present in numbers as follows:
First Company-Re Hiram Bing-
ham, two; Rev. Asa Thurston, three
Mr. Whitney one. Second Company
Rev ARENAS Bishop, five; Levi
Chamberlain, three Third Company
Rev. Lorrin Andrews, two; Rev. r.
w. Clark. two; Rev. Peter j. Gulick.
three; Gerrit p. Judd, ten. Fourth
Company - Rev. Dwight Baldwin.
three. Fifth Company-Rev w. p.
| Alexander, eleven; Rev. Richard Arm.
strong, six; Rev. John s. Emerson
three; Rev Cochran Forbes, three:
Rev. H. H. Hitchcock, two; Rev
Lorenzo Lyons, one; Edmund II. Rog.
ers, one. Sixth Company-Rev. Low
ell Smith, two. Seventh Company
Henry Dimond, one; Edwin o. Hall,
one. Eighth Cumpany-S. N. Castle,
five; Edward Bailey, one; Amos S.
Cooke, ten; Edward Johnson. two.
Ninth COmpany-Rev Elias Bond,
one; Rev. Daniel Dole, one; William
II. Rice, four. Tenth Company-Rev.
George 3. Rowell one. Eleventh
Company-None. Twelfth Company
None. Others-Rev. Samuel c.
Damon, one; j. w. Smith, one.
One who responded was a daughter
of the first missionary to Oahu, and
was born in the very house where
the reunion took place Fifteen were
children of pioneer missionaries.
Within a recent period the house,
which was imported knocked down"
around Cape Horn and until lately
was believed to have been the first
frame house erected in Honolulu, has
been renovated by the society to be
preserved as long as possible as
memorial
Fifteen grandmothers of missionary
families were special guests of honor
and by request poured tea, being in
cluded in the following list of ladies
performing that function: Mrs. w.
d. Alexander, Mrs. ]. B. Atherton,
Mrs. S. l.. Austin, Mrs. L. A. An
drews, Mrs. D. D. Baldwin, Mrs. H. p.
Baldwin, Mrs. S. f. Bishop, Mrs. J.
Bicknell, Mrs. H. c. Coleman, Mrs
w r. Castle, Mrs. C. NJ. Cooke. Mrs
S. NJ Damon, Mrs. C. H. Dickey, Mrs.
y. f. Dillingham;, Mrs. o. II. Gulick,
Mrs A. F.. Judd, Mrs. Selma Kinney,
Mrs c. II. Kluegel, Mrs. J. ID. Paris
Mrs w H. Rice. Mrs w o. Smith,
Mrs A. H. Smith, Mrs. w. H. Ship
man, Mrs E. H. Hitchcock, Mrs. J.
T. Whine, Mrs. S. w. Wilcox, Mrs.
A. s. Wilcox, Mrs. e. A. Weaver and
Mrs. E. X. Wilder.
An old-fashioned hookupu was ten
dered to Mrs. Weaver who is going
away after having successfully man
aged the Lunalilo Home for Aged and
INDECENT Hawaiians for many years.
Besides gifts of fruits and flowers she
received a calabash containing up
ward of $500 in gold, presented in be-
half of the society by George R. Car
ter in a neat address.
Mr. Carter read paper on the last
previous "Grandmothers' Tea Party"
of the Cousins Society as it is famil-
iarly called among its members,
which was held forty years ago. Mrs.
Theodore Richards read, from a copy
in the handwriting of King Lunalilo,
an account by Rev. A. S. Cooke of
. an inter-island excursion by the
: teachers and pupils of the Royal
School in schooner loaned by IA.
mehameha III. The trip occupied four
weeks and six days, one week being
taken in crossing the channels to
Hilo Mrs. o. II. Gulick read paper
containing the story of the organiza
ton of the society and a review o
its progress in the sixty years sine,
il was organized by Rev. Asa Thurs
ton. Mrs. b. F.. Dillingham; contrib
uted a poem treating of memories o
the odd Mission House," and Mrs
n Weaver a paper on General Nee
d ings," dealing with the religious wor
l. of the early days, which was both o.
II iginal and humorous.
n Ninety-two cousins" were in a
s. tendance,