Religious Leaders
Religious leaders were also honored by planting banyans in Hilo. These include then president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Heber Grant, Roman Catholic Bishop Stephen Alencastre, Monshu of the Hongwanji Buddhists Kosho Ohtani, Methodist leader Bishop Gerald Kennedy who planted a tree along the drive but it was not a banyan tree, Japanese Christian reformer Toyohiko Kagawa, YMCA Training School President Dr. L. L. Doggett, and Dr. Daniel Poling, once pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church.
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