page_title: John Davis Paris
hierarchical_section_title: John Davis Paris
caption_attribution_description: English: Rev. John Davis Paris (1809–1892) was a missionary to Hawaii. He first arrived in 1841, intending to go to Oregon Territory, but the station had been wiped out. He built a church ai the remote outpost of Waionihu, where he first wife died. He traveled back to the US, married a cousin of his first wife, and returned. He built several more churches in the Kona area, including Kahikolu, Helani, Mauna Ziona, Holualoa, and Lanakila, where he died and is buried.
context_page_description: John Davis Paris was an American Christian missionary to the island of Hawaii. Coming to the island by accident, he supervised construction of several historic churches, some of which survive today.
context_section_description: John Davis Paris (September 22, 1809 – July 28, 1892) was an American Christian missionary to the island of Hawaii. Coming to the island by accident, he supervised construction of several historic churches, some of which survive today.
caption: Church builder on island of Hawaii
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image DateTime": "2015:06:08 15:22:25", "Image ExifOffset": "2142", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "4360", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7688", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "F014856E3B024AB4B8A6831671698379", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}