Ursula Newell Emerson

She and her new husband sailed to Hawaii in 1832, part of the fifth company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).

[2][3] Most of their work was located on the north shore of Oahu, at Waialua, where they were supported by High Chief Gideon Peleʻioholani Laʻanui.

[4][5] They founded the Liliʻuokalani Protestant Church, on lands donated by Laʻanui,[5][6] where she led the singing "with energy and precision",[7] and a school for teachers, where she taught.

[8] Ursula Newell Emerson drew some of the earliest surviving manuscript maps of Hawaiʻi, in 1833, for teaching use; they are now in the collection of the Hawaiian Historical Society.

[14] In the 1920s, stamps that Ursula Newell Emerson may have sent to a childhood friend in New England became the subject of controversy and lawsuits, as uncancelled missionary postage from Hawaii was a rare find for collectors.