Cooke, Amos Starr

Cooke, Amos Starr a Congregational missionary, was born at Danbury, Connecticut, in 1810, and graduated from Yale College in 1834. He went to the Sandwich. Islands in the employ of the American Board of Foreign Missions, arriving there in April 1837. Soon after his arrival he took charge of the education of the higher classes of that country, and remained at the head of the royal school for twelve years. He died at Honolulu, March 20, 1871.