Hiram Bingham

Bingham, Hiram, 1789-1869, American Congregationalist missionary, b. Bennington, Vt. In 1819 the American Board of Missions sent him, with others, to found the first Protestant mission in the Hawaiian Islands. Bingham adapted the Hawaiian language to writing, published Elementary Lessons in Hawaiian (1822), and, with his associates, translated the Bible into Hawaiian.

Bibliography

See his A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands (1847, 3d ed. rev. 1969).