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Abner Wilcox (April 19, 1808 – August 20, 1869) was a missionary teacher from
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to the
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Abner Wilcox was born April 19, 1808, in
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. His father was Aaron Wilcox (1770–1850) and mother was Lois Phelps. He was fourth of nine children. On November 23, 1836, he married Lucy Eliza Hart who was born November 17, 1814, in
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. They were assigned to be in the eighth company of missionaries to Hawaii for the
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. They sailed from
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on December 14, 1836, on the bark ''Mary Frasier'' and arrived in
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on April 9, 1837. Also on this voyage were missionaries
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and
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, founders of
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. The Wilcoxes taught at the Hilo Mission boarding school founded by
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and his wife on the
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. They had four sons born while at Hilo. In 1845 they moved to
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on the island of
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. In 1846 the family moved to teach at a similar school at the Waioli Mission near
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, on the northern coast of the island of
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. There they had four more sons, although one died young. His wife died August 13, 1869, and he died one week later on August 20, 1869, in
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, on a visit to relatives. They were buried at Colebrook. In the
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the family was known as ''Wilikoki''. Children were: # Charles Hart Wilcox was born April 8, 1838, in Hilo, married Frances A. Van Water (1846–1917), had four children, and died September 25, 1888, in
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. # George Norton Wilcox (1839–1933) became an Engineer, politician, and businessman. # Edward Payson Wilcox was born September 2, 1841, in Hilo, married Mary P. H. Rockwell, moved to
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, and died on July 23, 1919. #
Albert Spencer Wilcox Albert Spencer Wilcox (May 24, 1844 – July 7, 1919) was a businessman and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii. He developed several sugar plantations in Hawaii, and became a large landholder. Early life Albert Spence ...
(1844–1919) became a businessman and politician. # Samuel Whitney Wilcox was born September 19, 1847, at Waioli, married Emma Washburn Lyman (daughter of the Hilo missionaries) on October 7, 1874, served in the legislature of the
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from 1901 through 1905, and died on May 23, 1929, in
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. Their two sons inherited their uncle George's estate including Grove Farm. Ralph Lyman Wilcox (1876–1913) married Anna Charlotte Rice, daughter of
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and granddaughter of missionary
William Harrison Rice William Harrison Rice (October 12, 1813 – May 26, 1862) was a missionary teacher from the United States who settled in the Hawaiian Islands and managed an early sugarcane Sugar plantations in Hawaii, plantation. Life William Harrison Rice wa ...
on February 17, 1903. Gaylord Parke Wilcox (1881–1970) in 1909 married Ethel Kulamanu Mahelona, stepdaughter of his uncle Albert Wilcox. Their estate called Kilohana is now a tourist attraction. # William Luther Wilcox was born July 8, 1850, at Waioli, married native Hawaiian Kahuila from
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, became a judge, and died July 12, 1903. # Clarence Sheldon Wilcox was born November 14, 1855, at Waioli, but died less than a year later on September 8, 1856. # Henry Harrison Wilcox was born March 23, 1858, at Waioli, married Mary Theodosia Green (1865–1936), granddaughter of missionary
Jonathan Smith Green Jonathan Smith Green (September 29, 1796 – January 5, 1878) was a missionary from New England to the Kingdom of Hawaii. Life Green was born December 20, 1796 in Lebanon, Connecticut, to Beriah and Elizabeth Green. He graduated from Andover Semi ...
(but they had no children), and committed suicide January 11, 1899, after a painful illness. In 1912 Sam, George, and Albert Wilcox donated funds for a new church at Waioli, and the old one was converted to a hall. He was no relation to
Robert William Wilcox Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaii, was a Native Hawaiian whose father was an American and whose mother was Hawaiian. A revolutionary soldier and politician, he led uprisi ...
(1855–1903) who was a military commander in several rebellions and then first delegate to US Congress from Hawaii.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilcox, Abner 1808 births 1869 deaths People from Harwinton, Connecticut American Congregationalist missionaries Congregationalist missionaries in Hawaii American expatriates in the Hawaiian Kingdom