13 Facts About Titus Coan

Titus Coan was an American minister from New England who spent most of his life as a Christian missionary to the Hawaiian Islands.

Titus Coan was born on February 1,1801, in Killingworth, Connecticut, the son of Gaylord Coan and Tamza Nettleton.

In 1834 Coan returned to the United States, where he married Fidelia Church.

Son Samuel Latimer Titus Coan was born 1846 and died in 1887.

Titus Coan married second to Lydia Bingham, the daughter of the Rev Hiram Bingham I, on October 13,1873.

Titus Coan completed his autobiography in 1881, the year before he died.

Titus Coan's book was digitized in 1997 by his great-great grandson Edward J Coan.

Titus Coan learned the Hawaiian Language and helped educate the residents of the area and recruit them into Christianity.

Titus Coan's book includes descriptions of the heavy tropical rains, eruptions of the Kilauea volcano, earthquakes, and tsunamis, such as the one caused by the 1868 Hawaii earthquake.

Titus Coan was known as "the bishop of Kilauea," and his observations were invaluable to subsequent scientists.

Fidelia Titus Coan was among the first American women to publish in a scientific journal: an 1852 article in the American Journal of Science.

Titus Coan directed the construction of Haili Church from 1855 to 1859.

Titus Coan visited the Marquesas Islands in 1860 and 1867.