[3] At about the age of eighteen, while teaching at the village school in Heath, Massachusetts, she met Lowell Smith, then an undergraduate in Williams College.

[1] On November 23, 1832, they sailed from New London, Connecticut, on board the whaling bark Mentor, Captain John Rice, in company with Rev.

Henry H. Parker, and Mr. Charles Burnham, a carpenter and builder, who came to erect the Bethel Church, the framework of which was on board the vessel.

[3] The women of the party were met at the shore by the Hawaiian queen's carriage — a hand cart, drawn by two local men.

But the Ewa climate proved insufficient to restore Mrs. Smith to health and they returned again to Honolulu in July 1836 in order that she might have continuous medical treatment.

[1] Mrs. Smith still an invalid, and obliged to lie on a sofa all day, held daily audience with many native women, whom she instructed in common housekeeping, dressmaking, and religious duty towards their families.

The mats and hats were sold to wealthier natives and to whalers; the bags were purchased by the two or three sugar cultivators then at work on the islands.

Soup, rice, and tea were made in large quantities daily and gien to the natives who came to the house in great numbers.

[3] Later in the same year, two Hawaiian young men, employed as cooks in town, wanted to learn English and Mrs. Smith agreed to teach them.

The two pupils told others and her class grew in a few months until it became a well-established and well-known evening school for Hawaiian young men.

To limit and define the membership, Smith fixed tuition rates at US$.25 per week; thirty pupils kept up their studies with her for a full year.

During the years 1854-60, many of the most promising native boys on the islands attended Mrs. Smith's school; its membership at one time numbering 80 pupils.

She opened a school for Caucasian children and taught it at home for three years, coming down the valley in 1863 to the cottage later occupied by Mr. J. D. Strong.

[3] In 1878, Smith spent three months on the Pacific Coast, her second and last return visit to the U.S. For the previous four years, her life had been comparatively quiet.

[1] Two days later, she tried to attend the meeting of the recently formed Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) but had to be taken home before it closed.