Titus Coan

Titus Coan ( born 1 February 1801 in Killingworth (Connecticut), † December 1, 1882 in Hilo, Hawaii ) was an American missionary.

After he was taught by private tutors, he was self- employed as a teacher from 1819. In 1826 he went to New York where he about 1830 at the Auburn Theological Seminary, studied theology and was ordained in April 1833. In August, he traveled for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Patagonia. After his return in 1834 he married Fidelia Church ( † 1872). In December, he traveled to Hawaii, where he lived in Hilo from July 1835.

He took care of a medical care of the population and was more than forty years as the primary observer of the great volcanoes of Hawaii, especially the summit crater of Kilauea.