Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Blackman, Leopold Gilbert July 4, 1874 - 
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Source: The Story of the Builders of Hawaii. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

LEOPOLD GILBERT BLACKMAN, Educator and Author. The usually divergent careers 
of educator and soldier have been combined by Major Leopold G. Blackman, who 
came to the Islands in 1900 at the request of the late Bishop Willis to take 
charge of Iolani School, and remained in Hawaii to become president of the 
Honolulu Military Academy and aide de camp to the governor of the Territory.
  After a year at Iolani School he became librarian at the Bernice P. Bishop 
Museum, resigning to accept the presidency of the Honolulu Military Academy in 
1911. His other public positions have been territorial commissioner of public 
instruction, 1914-1920; acting territorial superintendent of public 
instruction, 1916-1917; president of the Territorial Teachers’ Association, 
1916-1917, and inspector-general of the National Guard of Hawaii, 1917. He is 
a major, Staff Specialist, O.R.C., U.S. Army. He was appointed aide de camp to 
the governor in 1918.
  Born in Cheltenham, England, on July 4, 1874, he is the son of Thomas and 
Harriet (Sutherland) Blackman. He is an associate of Saint Nicholas College, 
Lancing, England, and was principal of the preparatory school of Ardingly 
College before coming to Hawaii.
  Major Blackman is a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner. He is corresponding 
secretary of the Honolulu Press Club and is a member of the American Defense 
Society. He is a contributor on Pacific lore and ethnology to the National 
Geographic Magazine and the Geographical Journal. He was editor of the 
Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, 1906-1910; U. S. special inspector for 
the importation of foreign animals and birds, 1908-1910, and represented the 
Territory of Hawaii at the National Conservation Congress, Seattle, 1909, and 
at the National Irrigation Congress. He also was enrolling officer, Boys’ 
Working Reserve, U. S. Dept. of Labor, 1918; president of the Senior Men’s 
League, American Red Cross, 1920, and president of the Hawaiian Association 
Football League, 1900-1901. Major Blackman was naturalized as a citizen of the 
United States in 1904.


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