Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Cooke, Amos Starr December 1, 1810 - March 20, 1871
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

AMOS STARR COOKE, Early Builder of Hawaii. First of the Cooke family in Hawaii 
was Amos Starr Cooke, early missionary from New England and later an associate 
of Samuel N. Castle in the establishment of the firm of Castle & Cooke, Ltd. 
It has been told in the biographical sketch of Samuel N. Castle how the two 
men, members of the eighth company of missionaries, reached Honolulu on April 
9, 1837, beginning a close association which was to continue without 
interruption until the death of Mr. Cooke on March 20, 1871.
  Members of that little band of earnest Christians who in the early part of 
the last century ventured into the almost unknown Pacific to bring 
enlightenment to a people who were groping for knowledge, Mr. Cooke and his 
wife, Juliette (Montague) Cooke, played a large part in the first 
establishment of an educational system in Hawaii. Mr. Cooke took charge of the 
Mission School for young chiefs in June, 1839, where, with Mrs. Cooke, he 
taught for 10 years, educating a number of boys and girls who were later to 
occupy the throne of the Hawaiian monarchy.
  Among the pupils of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke were King Kamehameha IV, King 
Kamehameha V, King Lunalilo, Bernice Pauahi, later the wife of Charles R. 
Bishop, pioneer banker; Queen Liliuokalani, Elizabeth Kekaamau Pratt and many 
others who became notable figures in Hawaiian history. In 1849 Mr. Cooke 
became assistant superintendent of secular affairs. For 15 years he served as 
deacon of the Second Foreign Church.
  Released from missionary service in 1851, after 14 years of unremitting 
toil, Mr. Cooke joined with Samuel N. Castle in the establishment of Castle & 
Cooke.
  Amos Starr Cooke was born in Danbury, Conn., Dec. 1, 1810, and died in 
Honolulu, March 20, 1871. His wife, Juliette (Montague) Cooke, was born in 
Sunderland, Mass., March 10, 1812, and died in Honolulu Aug. 11, 1896, beloved 
by thousands for her broad charities and benefactions. Children of Amos Starr 
Cooke were Joseph Platt Cooke, Martha Eliza Cooke, Juliette Montague Cooke 
Atherton, Mary Annis Cooke Turner, Charles Montague Cooke, Amos Frank Cooke, 
and Clarence Warren Cooke.


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