Peter Johnson Gulick (March 12, 1796 – December 8, 1877) was a missionary to the
Kingdom of Hawaii and
Japan. His descendants carried on the tradition of missionary work, and included several scientists.
After the Ladd company failed in 1843, they moved to the island of
Molokaʻi where they assisted
Harvey Rexford Hitchcock and his wife Rebecca Howard Hitchcock. In 1847 they moved to
Waialua on the island of
Oʻahu. In 1857 they moved to Honolulu.[6]: 24
His brother William Gulick married Fanny's sister Eliza Throop Thomas (1804–1903). Their son
Charles T. Gulick (1841–1897) also went to Hawaii to serve as a missionary.[7]
In 1874, the Gulicks went to
Kobe, Japan to join their sons. Peter Gulick died on December 8, 1877.
Fanny died May 24, 1883, in Kobe. They had a total of 8 children who traveled throughout the world.
Son
Luther Halsey Gulick was born in Honolulu on June 10, 1828, married Louisa Lewis October 29, 1850, and became a missionary physician. He died on April 8, 1891, in
Springfield, Massachusetts.[6]: 92
Their son
Sidney Lewis Gulick (1860–1945) was a minister in Japan and educator in the US. Sidney's son, also named
Luther Halsey Gulick (1892–1993), was a social scientist.
Son Orramel Hinckley Gulick was born in Honolulu October 7, 1830, married Ann Eliza Clark (1833–1938), daughter of missionary Ephraim Weston Clark (1799–1878). He served as a missionary to Japan, and returned to Hawaii, where he died September 18, 1923.[6]: 24 [10] They published a history of the missions in 1918.[11]
Son
John Thomas Gulick was born March 13, 1832, on Kauaʻi, became a missionary and biologist and died April 14, 1923. He exchanged ideas on some of the early theories of
evolution with
Charles Darwin.[12]
Son Charles Finney Gulick was born April 10, 1834, in Honolulu. He died January 18, 1854, in
Glenhaven, New York, before he could attend college.[13]
Son William Hooker Gulick was born November 18, 1835, on Kauaʻi. He first traveled to
Venezuela and
Colombia. He married
Alice Gordon Kitteredge December 12, 1871, and became a missionary to Spain that year.[14] They founded Instituto Internacional in
Madrid as a school for girls in 1892.[15]
He moved to
Boston in 1919 where he died April 14, 1922.[16]
Son Theodore Weld Gulick was born May 8, 1837 (named for
Theodore Dwight Weld), married Mary Agnes Thompson in 1867. He trained as a dentist, but became a missionary to various places from
Kyoto, Japan to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died April 7, 1924, in
Long Beach, California.
Their son Walter Vose Gulick, (April 14, 1870 – February 10, 1922) became a physician and author in
Washington state.[17][18]
Daughter Julia Ann Eliza Gulick was born June 5, 1845, and moved with her parents to live with Orramel in Kobe in 1874. She worked as a missionary there, until returning to Honolulu and working with Japanese people in Hawaii; she died in 1936.[21]
She, Orramel, John, and Sidney are buried in the
Mission House cemetery at
Kawaiahaʻo Church.[22] Since Julia had not yet been born when her brother Luther Halsey Gulick left for the United States in 1840, the family never was all together in the same place at one time.
All the children except Luther graduated from
Punahou School[23] Luther Gulick served as a trustee from 1865-1870.[24]
^Charles H. Smith; Joshua Woleben; Carubie Rodgers (2007).
"Gulick, John Thomas (United States 1832-1923)". Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists: Chrono-Biographical Sketches. Retrieved May 7, 2010.