William Kanui
(ca. 1796 - January 14, 1864)
A member of the pioneer company of ABCFM missionaries to Hawaiʻi that left on October 23, 1819, from Boston.
There are three names on Kanui’s memorial stone: Kanui, his birth name, meaning, The Big or Great One; William, a name given him by an American ship’s captain when he sailed as crew, and Tennooe, an anglicization of Kanui, used by his American friends.
A member of the pioneer company of ABCFM missionaries to Hawaiʻi that left on October 23, 1819, from Boston.
There are three names on Kanui’s memorial stone: Kanui, his birth name, meaning, The Big or Great One; William, a name given him by an American ship’s captain when he sailed as crew, and Tennooe, an anglicization of Kanui, used by his American friends.
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Roughing It
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1872
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