Richard Lyman I (1580-1640) immigrated from Essex Co., England to Boston, Massachusetts in 1631, and later moved to Connecticut. Descendants were usually in Massachusetts and Connecticut, until David Belden Lyman and his wife went to Hawaii in 1831.

Sarah Joiner Lyman (1805-1885) was born in Royalton, Vermont, daughter of Salmon Joiner and Mary Moore. She married David Belden Lyman (1803-1884), born at New Hartford, Connecticut, in 1831. They spent their married lives as missionaries in Hawaii.

"Consists of a historical sketch of the society and synopses of its standing committees; brief biographies of some 60 members of the society who became missionaries to the American Indians or missionaries in foreign lands; a selection of letters received from these missionaries; and dissertations read before the society. Of particular interest is a Report of the committee on Colonization (pp. 296-317) on a plan to resettle the free black population of the United States on the coast of Africa. To achieve this end, the committee resolves to support the work of the American ColonizationSociety and to callt he public's attention to the matter."--Book dealer's description.

"During the Depression years, J. Arthur Rath spent his early childhood shuttled between relatives and foster parents in Hawai'i and on the mainland while his single mother, Hualani, struggled to make a living. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, his grandparents sent him to the Big Island and Konawaena School, where he heard the Kamehameha Schools boy choir at a school assembly. The performance made a deep impression on Rath, and a year later, in 1944, he entered Kamehameha as an eighth-grade boarder. Thus began Rath's love affair with an institution that he credits with turning his life around, with giving him and other disadvantaged children of native ancestry - Hawai'i's "lost generations" - the confidence and support necessary to make something of themselves. This is the story of that love affair. It is also the story of Rath's recent battle, together with other alumni, for the integrity of his beloved Kamehameha against the school's trustees and their organization, the powerful Bishop Estate." "Intelligent and impressionable, Rath spent an idyllic four years at Kamehameha. In a lively talk-story manner, he reminisces about campus life and his classmates, many of whom became lifelong friends and influential members of the Hawaiian community: Don Ho, Nona Beamer, Oswald Stender, Tom Hugo, William Fernandez. Years later Rath, a successful retired businessman, would call on these same friends to hold Kamehameha's trustees accountable for their mismanagement of Bishop Estate's vast financial holdings and ultimately their failure to carry out founder Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's mandate to educate Hawaiian children. Rath draws on his many personal ties to the school and the estate to provide surprising revelations on the trustees and the "Bishop Estate Scandal," which made headlines daily throughout the mid-1990s."--BOOK JACKET.