Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor

Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (c.1859)
Born (1821-09-28)September 28, 1821
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Died 1821 (aged -86–-85)
Nationality American
Known for Painting
Spouse(s) Townsend Elijah Taylor

Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906) was a painter and sketch artist who was born in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on September 28, 1821.

Biography

Her parents, Reverend Asa Thurston (1787–1868) and Lucy Goodale Thurston (1795–1876), were in the first company of American Christian missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. When she was four, she had been asked to be given in hānai to Princess Kapulikoliko, daughter of Kamehameha I. Her mother politely refused. The concept of giving a child to be raised by a relative or friend was common in Hawaii, but it horrified the missionaries who preached one doesn't give out their children like puppies.[1]:88

For three years, she lived in Lahaina, Maui, where she assisted in the work of the seminary press at Lahainaluna School.[2] In 1847, she married Rev. Townsend Elijah Taylor of LaGrange, New York, who was serving as the seaman's chaplain for the Port of Lahaina.[3]

Taylor is best known for her landscapes (two of which were made into engravings at the Lahinaluna seminary) and silhouettes of both missionaries and Hawaiian royalty.[2]

Family tree

Thurston Hawaii family tree
 
 
Asa Thurston
(1787–1868)
 
Lucy Goodale
(1795–1876)
 
Lorrin Andrews
(1795–1868)
 
Mary Wilson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
William Cornelius Shipman
(1824–1861)
 
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor
(1821–1906)
 
Asa Goodale Thurston
(1827–1859)
 
Sarah Andrews
(1832–1899)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
William Herbert Shipman
(1854–1943)
 
Margaret Clarissa
Shipman
 
Lorrin A. Thurston
(1858–1931)
 
Harriet Potter
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
William Twigg-Smith
(1883-1950)
 
Margaret Carter Thurston
(1895–1931)
 
Lorrin Potter Thurston
(1900-1984)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thurston Twigg-Smith
(1921-2016)
Notes:
    Hawaiian Breadfruit, oil on canvas painting c. 1890

    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Lucy Goodale Thurston (1882). Life and Times of Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston, wife of Rev. Asa Thurston.
    2. 1 2 Severson, 2002
    3. ↑ AskArt.com

    References

    • Severson, Don R. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 72–74.
    • Thurston, Lucy Goodale, Life and times of Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston, wife of Rev. Asa Thurston, pioneer Missionary to the Sandwich Islands, S. C. Andrews, 1882.
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