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Titus Coan

1801–82

American missionary. Entered Auburn Theological Seminary in 1831. Licensed as a Presbyterian minister, 1833. Missionary in Patagonia, 1833–4; at Hilo, Hawaii, 1835–82. Visited the Marquesas Islands in 1860 and 1867. Published Adventures in Patagonia (1880), and Life in Hawaii (1882).

Source

DAB.

Bibliography

DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.

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