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Francis Williams Damon
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- F.W. Damon
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1852-12-10 / 1915-06-22
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Francis Williams Damon was born on December 12, 1852 to the Reverend Dr. Samuel Chenery Damon and Julia Sherman Mills in Honolulu. Damon graduated from Punahou School and Amherst College. He held chair of languages at Punahou until 1876.
In 1877, he was posted to Berlin as secretary and interpreter for Henry A.P. Carter, the Hawaiian Minister to Berlin.
In 1879, he was appointed Charge d'affairs in Berlin.
In 1880, he was appointed to superintend Evangelical association work with Chinese.
In 1881, he returned to Honolulu by way of India and China.
In 1884 on his second trip to China, he met and married Mary Rebecca Harper in Canton, China. The Damons traveled to Honolulu shortly after their marriage.
In 1892, the Damons opened their home as Chinese school and named it Mills School which would later become Mid-Pacific Institute. Damon was trustee of Punahou School for 15 years and was President of the Board of manager for Mid-Pacific Institute.
Damon was the organizer of Fort Street Chinese Church.
He died on June 22, 1915 in Honolulu and is buried at Oahu Cemetery.
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The Hawaiian Gazette, 25 June 1915, p. 8
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2021-12-20, Carol Kellett: Entered into AtoM.