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Translator (into English): J. Freeman Young

John Freeman Young (1820-1885) Born: Oc­to­ber 30, 1820, Pitts­ton, Maine. Died: No­vem­ber 15, 1885, New York Ci­ty. Buried: Old Ci­ty Cem­e­te­ry, Jack­son­ville, Flor­i­da. Young at­tend­ed Wes­ley­an Un­i­ver­si­ty, Mid­dle­town, Con­nec­ti­cut; Wes­ley­an Sem­in­a­ry, Read­field, Maine; and the Vir­gin­ia The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, Al­ex­and­ria, Vir­gin­ia. Or­dained a Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal min­is­ter, he served in Tex­as, Mis­sis­sip­pi, Lou­i­si­a­na, and New York, and be­came the se­cond bi­shop of Flor­i­da in 1867. His works in­clude: Carols for Christ­mas Tide (New York: Dan­i­el Da­na, Jr., 1859) Hymns and Mu­sic for the Young, 1860-61… Go to person page >

Translator (into Hawaiian): Stephen Desha

Born: July 11, 1859, La­haina, Maui, Ha­wa­ii. Died: July 22, 1934. Buried: Ho­me­la­ni Me­mor­i­al Park, Hi­lo, Ha­wa­ii. Son of John Rol­lin Lang­hern De­sha and Eli­za Brew­er De­sha, Ste­phen was ed­ucated in the Ha­wai­ian schools, the Roy­al School and North Pa­ci­fic In­st­itute in Hon­o­l­ulu. He out­lived four wives: Hat­ie Ka­ma­ka (1883), Mary Ka­a­ko­pua Ke­ku­ma­no (1884), Rose Ka­pu, and Ju­lia H. Ke­o­na­o­na (1913). Desha was pas­tor of Na­poo­poo Church (1884-89) and Ha­i­li Church of Hi­lo (1889). He be­came su­per­vis­or of the Coun­ty of Ha­wa­ii when the coun­ty gov­ern­ment was inau­gu­rat­ed in 1905, and was elect­ed to the third Board of Su­pe… Go to person page >

Author: Joseph Mohr

Joseph Mohr was born into a humble family–his mother was a seamstress and his father, an army musketeer. A choirboy in Salzburg Cathedral as a youth, Mohr studied at Salzburg University and was ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in 1815. Mohr was a priest in various churches near Salzburg, including St. Nicholas Church. He spent his later years in Hintersee and Wagrein. Bert Polman… Go to person page >