Koamalu : a story of pioneers on Kauai, and of what they built in that island garden / by Ethel M. Damon. [Vol. 1, no. 2]

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your youngest granddaughter, this new, precious gift of
God. She looks as lovely in life as our little darling boy
did in death. The likeness struck me especially last night,
when she was asleep." And before little Julia was two
years old, her brothers were already such big boys that
Paul Isenberg decided to take his family to live in Germany, where the question of schools would not be such a
trying one. This was in 1878. With his family well cared
for there, he could return every two years to attend the
sessions of the Legislature and supervise the plantation
work. The old home, never to be broken up, was to
have, as it were, a double focus. From his pottery at
Duingen Carl Isenberg came back to Lihue with his
family to live in the new Koamalu house and to take his
brother's place as manager of the plantation. Before
leaving, Paul Isenberg destroyed a great part of his
earlier correspondence, but in Maria Rice Isenberg's

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THE NEW HOUSE AT KOAMALI IN 1877