Dr. Edward Christian Arning, a gifted amateur photographer,  was  born in Manchester England in 1855 and died in Munich in 1936.  He was the son of a German merchant who had settled in England.  Arning is considered the first microbiologist in Hawaii and he pioneered work on Leprosy.

A fascinating account of his life can be  found online at the Mamiya Medical Heritage Center, Hawaii Medical Library in Honolulu, HI.