Capt. Andrew Henri Blanchard, 1920.

[Found under: “Nuhou Kuloko”]

When researching the history of Captain Blanchard, the one who brought the Missionaries to Hawaii nei, it was found that he was the actual father of John H. Wilson’s grandfather on his mother’s [Eveline M. Townsend’s] side. On his father’s side, that being Charles B. Wilson; Charles B. Wilson is an actual grandson of Captain Wilson, and it was Capt. Wilson who took the first missionaries to the Tahitian archipelago.

When researching the history of Captain Blanchard, the one who brought the missionaries here to Hawaii, it was found that he was the actual grandfather of Mayor John H. Wilson. This was the captain of the ship the Thaddeus which boarded by the first missionaries who came to Hawaii, being commemorated this month.

(Aloha Aina, 4/10/1920, p. 3)

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Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XXXIV, Helu 84, Aoao 3. Aperila 10, 1920.

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