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ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I received invaluable help on this book from numerous individuals, and I would like to thank them. I would also like to thank the many institutions whose resources enabled me to do research on Peter and Fanny Gulick. At the outset of my research, I contacted many of the couple’s living descendents , asking them for permission to use their family’s papers at Harvard University and elsewhere. The descendents acted in accordance with their family’s long history of support for scholarship, and they graciously approved . They also provided me with important historical information, and I am particularly grateful for the information that I received from Katherine Fricker, Anna Gulick, Walter Gulick, Sidney “Denny” Gulick, Paulie Keakealani Jennings, Faith Olsen, Lou Riggs, Melba “Chris” Gulick, the late Frances Riggs, the late Mary Gulick, and the late Luther Gulick IV. Other descendents of Peter and Fanny assisted me not with information but rather with encouragement, and although I do not have enough space here to thank every descendent who backed my research, I would like to express my appreciation for the support that I received from Merle “Lew” Gulick, Leslie Gulick , Lisa Gulick, Susan Gulick, Louise Maley, Charlotte Hewson, Dudley Hulbert, Amy Mansfield, Louise Van Winkle, and Betty Woodworth. Additional support came from my employer, Bentley University, which generously provided me with a Rauch publication grant, several faculty development research grants, and a summer travel grant to do research in Hawai‘i. These grants proved to be extremely helpful, and I am very appreciative of them. I am also quite thankful for the largesse of Oberlin College, the American Philosophical Society, and the Overseas Ministries Study Center , all of which gave me grants that greatly facilitated my research into the Gulick family. My research began in earnest at the Houghton Library at Harvard University , and I am grateful for the assistance that I obtained there from expert librarians such as Susan Halpert, Tom Ford, and Elizabeth Falsey. Another librarian whom I would like to thank is Kanani Reppun, one of the world’s foremost experts on American missionaries in Hawai‘i and the former director x Acknowledgments of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library in Honolulu. Kanani and her successor at the library, Carol White, provided me with very useful aid. Doing research in Hawai‘i can be expensive, but during the two summers I was there I was able to stay economically at the East-West Center, and I am thankful for their hospitality. I am also thankful for the information that I obtained on the islands from knowledgeable people at the Bishop Museum, Punahou School, the Mid-Pacific Institute, the Kaua‘i Historical Society, the Hawai‘i State Archives, the University of Hawai‘i, the Central Union Church in Honolulu, and the public libraries in Wai-mea, Kaua‘i, and Kō-loa, Kaua‘i. Another source of information for me in Hawai‘i was the Hawaiian Historical Society, whose director, Barbara Dunn, kindly applauded my efforts to shed light on the Gulicks. After completing my work in Hawai‘i, I returned to my home base in Massachusetts, where I resumed doing research at the Houghton Library. Other institutions on the mainland where I found data for this book include the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, the Oberlin College Library, the Harvard Divinity School Library, and the Andover Newton Theological School Library. At all of these places, I received help from savvy librarians, and I am especially appreciative of the aid that I got from Roland Baumann at the Oberlin College Library, Diana Yount at the Andover Newton Theological School Library, and Laura Whitney and Clifford Wunderlich at the Harvard Divinity School Library. Other librarians helped me from afar, sending me useful historical materials . Many of these materials were procured by Bentley’s interlibrary loan librarians, most notably Lindsey White and Amy Galante, and I am grateful for their efforts. I am also appreciative of the materials that I received directly from responsive people at the Peabody Essex Museum, the United Church of Christ Archives, the Westfield Athenaeum in Massachusetts, the Monmouth County Historical Association of New Jersey, the public library in Greeneville, Tennessee, and the libraries at Dartmouth College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of California at Berkeley. Another organization of great use to me was the Historical Society of Lebanon, Connecticut , whose members, especially Alicia Lathrop and Lindy J. Brunkhorst Olewine, sent...

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