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Peter Johnson Gulick

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Peter Johnson Gulick
Born(1796-03-12)March 12, 1796
Freehold Borough, New Jersey, US
DiedDecember 8, 1877(1877-12-08) (aged 81)
Kobe, Japan
OccupationMissionary
SpouseFanny Hinckley Thomas
Children8
Fanny Gulick (1798–1883)

Peter Johnson Gulick (March 12, 1796 – December 8, 1877) was a missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii and Japan. His descendants carried on the tradition of missionary work, and included several scientists.

Life

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Peter Johnson Gulick was born March 12, 1796, in Freehold Borough, New Jersey, to John Gulick (1766–1838) and Lydia Combs (1768–1836).[1] He studied at the private Lawrenceville School from 1820 to 1822. Along with James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) and two other students, Gulick helped found Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall (1825–1930, now called Princeton Christian Fellowship).[2][3][4][5] He graduated from Princeton in 1825, and did additional studies at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1827.

On September 5, 1827, he married Frances "Fanny" Hinckley Thomas who was born April 16, 1798, in Lebanon, Connecticut. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister on October 3, 1827.

On November 3, 1827, the couple sailed from Boston as part of the third company of missionaries from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.[6]: 24  They reached Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 30, 1828. They were first assigned to the mission at Waimea on the island of Kauaʻi. In 1835 they moved to Kōloa on Kauaʻi, where the Kōloa sugar plantation had just been started by Ladd & Co.

After the Ladd company failed in 1843, they moved to the island of Molokaʻi where they assisted Harvey Rexford Hitchcock and his wife Rebecca Howard Hitchcock. In 1847 they moved to Waialua on the island of Oʻahu. In 1857 they moved to Honolulu.[6]: 24 

His brother William Gulick married Fanny's sister Eliza Throop Thomas (1804–1903). Their son Charles T. Gulick (1841–1897) also went to Hawaii to serve as a missionary.[7]

In 1874, the Gulicks went to Kobe, Japan to join their sons. Peter Gulick died on December 8, 1877. Fanny died May 24, 1883, in Kobe. They had a total of 8 children who traveled throughout the world.

Descendants

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six men and one woman
The seven surviving children all became missionaries
  • Son Orramel Hinckley Gulick was born in Honolulu October 7, 1830, married Ann Eliza Clark (1833–1938), daughter of missionary Ephraim Weston Clark (1799–1878). He served as a missionary to Japan, and returned to Hawaii, where he died September 18, 1923.[6]: 24 [10] They published a history of the missions in 1918.[11]
  • Son John Thomas Gulick was born March 13, 1832, on Kauaʻi, became a missionary and biologist and died April 14, 1923. He exchanged ideas on some of the early theories of evolution with Charles Darwin.[12]
  • Son Charles Finney Gulick was born April 10, 1834, in Honolulu. He died January 18, 1854, in Glenhaven, New York, before he could attend college.[13]
  • Son William Hooker Gulick was born November 18, 1835, on Kauaʻi. He first traveled to Venezuela and Colombia. He married Alice Gordon Kitteredge December 12, 1871, and became a missionary to Spain that year.[14] They founded Instituto Internacional in Madrid as a school for girls in 1892.[15]

He moved to Boston in 1919 where he died April 14, 1922.[16]

She, Orramel, John, and Sidney are buried in the Mission House cemetery at Kawaiahaʻo Church.[22] Since Julia had not yet been born when her brother Luther Halsey Gulick left for the United States in 1840, the family never was all together in the same place at one time.

All the children except Luther graduated from Punahou School[23] Luther Gulick served as a trustee from 1865-1870.[24]

Family tree

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References

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  1. ^ Clifford Putney (2001). "The Legacy of the Gulicks, 1827-1964". International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
  2. ^ Clifford Putney (2010). Missionaries in Hawai'i: The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797–1883. University of Massachusetts Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-1-55849-735-1.
  3. ^ Benjamin Holt Rice and John Holt Rice (1833). Memoir of James Brainerd Taylor, Second Edition. American Tract Society. p. 39.
  4. ^ I. Francis Kyle III (2008). An Uncommon Christian: James Brainerd Taylor, Forgotten Evangelist in America's Second Great Awakening. University Press of America. pp. 97–99. ISBN 978-0-7618-3862-3.
  5. ^ I. Francis Kyle III, ed. (2008). Of Intense Brightness: The Spirituality of Uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor. University Press of America. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7618-3970-5.
  6. ^ a b c d Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (1901). Portraits of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii. Honolulu: Hawaiian gazette co.
  7. ^ Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1871). The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass. J. Munsell. pp. 787–788.
  8. ^ "Luther and Charlotte Gulick". Kansas State University. August 24, 2002. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  9. ^ Katherine Mayo (2009-05-15). 'That Damn Y' a Record of Overseas Service. Bibliographical Center for Research. p. 118. ISBN 9781110810208. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  10. ^ Damon, Samuel Chenery (1922). "1830—Orramel Hinckley Gulick —1923". The Friend. pp. 232–234.
  11. ^ Orramel Hinckley Gulick; Ann Clark Gulick (1918). The Pilgrims of Hawaii: Their Own Story of Their Pilgrimage from New England. Fleming H. Revell company.
  12. ^ Charles H. Smith; Joshua Woleben; Carubie Rodgers (2007). "Gulick, John Thomas (United States 1832-1923)". Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists: Chrono-Biographical Sketches. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  13. ^ a b "William H. Gulick Reception". Annual report. Vol. 61. Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. 1913. pp. 60–75.
  14. ^ Gordon, Elizabeth Putnam (1917). Alice Gordon Gulick: her life and work in Spain. Fleming H. Revell company Instituto Internacional (Madrid Spain). p. 14.
  15. ^ "Historio del Instituto Internacional". official web site. Archived from the original on June 17, 2010. Retrieved October 19, 2010. (Spanish)
  16. ^ National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States (1922). The Congregational year-book. Congregational Publishing Society. p. 469.
  17. ^ "In memoriam: Dr. Walter Vose Gulick". Annual report. Vol. 70. Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. 1922. p. 71.
  18. ^ Walter Vose Gulick (1918). Mental diseases. C.V. Mosby Company. ISBN 978-0-217-02215-6.
  19. ^ John T. Gulick (February 1911). "Mrs. Alice E. Walbridge Gulick". The Friend. p. 74.
  20. ^ James M. Alexander (December 1904). "The death of Mr. Samuel T. Alexander". The Friend. Vol. LXI, no. 12. p. 5.
  21. ^ "From the Beginning: Missionaries & Montreat". Presbyterian Heritage Center at Montreat. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  22. ^ William Disbro (November 6, 2001). "Mission Houses Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii". US Genweb archives. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
  23. ^ Frances Gulick Jewett (1895). Luther Halsey Gulick: missionary in Hawaii, Micronesia, Japan, and China. Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society. (author is daughter of Luther Halsey Gulick)
  24. ^ School, Punahou (1891). Punahou jubilee celebration, June 25–26, 1891. p. 124.
  25. ^ Putney, Clifford (2010). Missionaries in Hawai'i: The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 17971883. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-735-1.
  26. ^ Jewett, Frances Gulick (1895). Luther Halsey Gulick: Missionary in Hawaii, Micronesia, Japan, and China. Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society.
  27. ^ "Sidney Gulick Densho Encyclopedia". encyclopedia.densho.org. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
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