Maria J. Forbes

Maria J. Forbes ( Chamberlain; 1832-1909) was a Kamaʻāina and the manager of Lunalilo Home, a Hawaiian charity and retirement home. She was the first child in the family of Levi Chamberlain to be born in the Chamberlain House.

History Maria Jane Chamberlain was born in Honolulu, Oahu, on April 25, 1832. Her father was Levi Chamberlain, one of the pioneer American missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. Her mother, Maria (, Patton), had been one of the third company of missionaries who reached Honolulu in the ship Parthian in 1828. The parents married in September of that same year. Maria Jane had six siblings. She was the first child in the family to be born in the Chamberlain House. She returned to Hawaii in 1854. the manager of the Lunalilo Home for aged and disabled Hawaiians in Honolulu. In 1901, sensible of the increasing infirmities of age, Forbes resigned and was succeeded by Mrs. Weaver.