In addition to Kawaiahaʻo Seminary, there were several other mission-supported schools for girls on Oʻahu, Maui, and Hawaiʻi islands; most shorter-lived than Kawaiahaʻo (with the exceptions of Kohala and Maunaolu). Records for all of these girls’ school are scattered, sparse, and have no single curated institutional home.
Name of School | Dates | Notes: | Founders & Other Associates | ||
Hilo Girls’ Boarding School, Hawaiʻi | 1838 to ~1846? | Fidelia Coan, wife of Rev. Titus Coan | |||
Kaʻū Female Seminary, Hawaiʻi | 1862 – 1865 | 1865 (Gulicks moved school to Waiʻalua, Oʻahu) renamed Waiʻalua Female Seminary | Orramel Hinkley Gulick | ||
later Waiʻalua Female Seminary, Oʻahu | 1865 | Anna Eliza (Clark) Gulick | |||
1870 Gulicks to Japan, closed briefly, reopens 1871 | Mary E. Green | ||||
1882 | 1882 closed, assets transferred to Kawaiaha’o Seminary | ||||
Kawaiaha’o Female Seminary, Honolulu | 1864 – 1908 | Luther Halsey Gulick | |||
Louisa Gulick | |||||
a.k.a. Miss Bingham’s school | Lydia Bingham (later Mrs. Titus Coan) 1867-1873 | ||||
Lizzie Johnston (assistant to Lydia) | |||||
Elisabeth Kaahumanu Bingham 1873-1880 | |||||
Helen S. Norton 1880 – Jan 1884 | |||||
Mattie Chamberlain (acting Jan – June 1884) | |||||
Mary E. Alexander 1884-1888 | |||||
Helen Pepoon 1888-1891 | |||||
Ida M. Pope 1891-1894 | |||||
Florence A. Perrott 1894-1895 | |||||
Elizabeth E. Gillan 1895-1896 | |||||
Christina Paulding 1896-1902 | |||||
Katheryn C. McLeod 1902-1908 | |||||
later Kawaiaha’o Girls Department at Mid-Pacific Institute | 1908 – 1920 | 1908 merged with other mission supported schools to form Mid-Pacific Institute on a new campus in Mānoa – Mills Institute, Okumura Japanese Boarding School, Korean Methodist Boarding School | |||
Mabel Bosher (Later Mrs. Doremus Scudder) 1908-1917 | |||||
Kohala Female Seminary | 1874 – 1955 | Rev. Elias Bond | |||
Ellen Howell Bond | |||||
1884 typhoid epidemic. Lyons leaves to care for aged father and no replacement could be found. School closed. | Elizabeth Lyons (dau of Lorenzo Lyons) | ||||
reopened 1887 | under HEA, Bonds donate land | ||||
1955 | 1955 closed | ||||
Maunaʻolu Seminary, Maui | 1862 – 1977 | 1869 school burns | Rev. Claudius B. Andrews | ||
a.k.a. Makawao Family School | 1871 | reopens with Baldwin sponsorship | Anne Seward (Gilson) Andrews (d.1863) | ||
a.k.a. East Maui Female Seminary | Samantha (Gilson) Andrews (2d wife) | ||||
Helen E. Carpenter | |||||
Mary E. Alexander (also Kawaiahaʻo Seminary) | |||||
1958 | 1958 becomes 2-year college, 1969 4- year community college | ||||
1977 | 1977 closes altogether | ||||
Makiki Family School, Honolulu, Oʻahu | 1860 – 1869 | Maria Ogden (comes from Wailuku school which had closed) | |||
1869 closed and assets transferred to Kawaiahaʻo Seminary | |||||
Waiʻalua Female Seminary, Oʻahu | 1865 – 1882 | (See entry for Kaʻū Female Seminary) | |||
Wailuku Female Seminary, Maui | 1837 – 1858 | Rev. Jonathan S. Green | |||
a.k.a. Central | Lydia Brown | ||||
Maria Ogden | |||||
Edward Bailey | |||||
1849 transitioned to coeducational | |||||
closed 1858 |