FIRST LIEUTENANT Ira B. Dutton
Union Army veteran Ira B. Dutton arrived at the Hawaiian island of Molokai unannounced and offered a lifetime of service to Father Damien, a Belgian priest later canonized for his devoted work at a leper colony on the windswept Kalaupapa Peninsula. Dutton professed that he had committed unforgivable sins and, in repentance, intended to spend
