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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halb tun, sondern ganze Arbeit soil der Mench verrichten.-Nothing half done, but the whole task shall a
man complete.
Members of this large family emigrated in the eighteenth century to the United States and even to Russia.
But the immediate family of the Rev. Daniel Isenberg
had its home in the little town of Muenden. George Isenberg, father of Daniel, was a boatman and river merchant who died suddenly while yet a young man. His
business partner and brother-in-law, a childless man,
intended to leave the property of the undivided partnership, after the death of his own wife, to the children of
George. He, too, however, was stricken by a fatal disease, and in his dying hour begged one of the Isenberg
daughters to destroy his old will. This she staunchly
refused to do, on principle, though it might, and did,

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