Fanny Gulick

Fanny Gulick
Fanny Hinckley Thomas Gulick (ca. 1876)
Personal
Born	Frances Hinckley Thomas April 16, 1798 Lebanon, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	May 24, 1883 Kobe, Japan
Religion	Presbyterian
Spouse	Peter Johnson Gulick
Children	8, including Luther Halsey Gulick Sr. and J. T. Gulick
Profession	Missionary
Senior posting
Profession	Missionary

Fanny Gulick (born Frances Hinckley Thomas; April 16, 1798 – May 24, 1883) was a 19th-century American Presbyterian missionary to the Hawaiian Kingdom and to Japan. Fanny and her husband, Rev. Peter Johnson Gulick had eight children, seven of whom also became missionaries. She was the first to instruct the island women in plaiting the straw-like covering of the sugarcane blossom into materials for hats and bonnets^[1] — an industry that soon became an important one.