Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Restarick, Rt. Rev. Henry Bond December 26, 1854 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

RT. REV. HENRY BOND RESTARICK, Retired Episcopal Bishop. Rt. Rev. Henry B. 
Restarick, first American bishop of Honolulu, Anglican Church, directed the 
church in the Territory for eighteen years, a period during which its 
membership trebled and its contributions and property increased sixfold. He 
came to Hawaii in 1902, following the transfer of the church in Hawaii from 
English to American jurisdiction.
  Owing to ill health, Bishop Restarick retired from active church work in 
1920 and has devoted himself to the writing of books and magazine articles. He 
is the author of “Lay Readers,” “The Love of God,” “Hawaii from the Viewpoint 
of a Bishop,” which is just off the press, and numerous special articles for 
periodicals and newspapers.
  Before being assigned to the Hawaiian Territory, Bishop Restarick spent a 
year on a farm, taught school at Council Bluffs, Iowa, for a short time, and 
gave a year to law reading. He was ordained deacon at Davenport, Ia., in Lent, 
1881; priest in June, 1882, and given charge of the parish of San Diego, Cal., 
which in that day covered a territory twice as large as the state of 
Massachusetts. On April 16, 1902, he was elected the first American bishop of 
Honolulu at a special meeting of the House of Bishops in Cincinnati.
  While in California Bishop Restarick occupied many ecclesiastical positions. 
He was dean of Southern California, a member of the general convention of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States from 1892 to 1901, and a 
member of the standing committee of the diocese of Los Angeles from 1895 to 
1902. He is now vice-president of the Hawaiian Historical Society and vice-
president of the trustees of the Territorial Library.
  Born Dec. 26, 1854, in Holcomb, England, Bishop Restarick was the son of 
Edwin and Amelia (Webb) Restarick. He was educated in King James School, 
Bridgewater, England; Griswold College, Davenport, Iowa, and in 1903 received 
his D. D. degree from King’s College, Nova Scotia. He was naturalized in 1879. 
In 1882 he married May L. Baker and they have three children, Mrs. Paul 
Withington, Mrs. R. B. McGrew and Arthur Edwin Restarick, all of Honolulu.


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