Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important people of Hawai'i -- Part 3. July 22, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 3, 2008, 7:21 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands July 22, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374. July 22, 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hstorical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A study in time, of the Hawai'ian Islands. Hawai'i's Important People -- part 3 by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 3 Hawai'i's Important People CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN ANDREWS (1817-1877) Born in Kinsman, Ohio, Andrews graduated from the Western Reserve College in 1840 amd Lane Seminary, Ohio in 1843. He was unmarried when he arrived with the Eleventh Company of Ameican missionaries in 1844 and was stationed first at Kaluaaha from 1844 to 1848; he served at Lahainaluna Seminary from 1848 to 1849. On a visit to the United States in 1849-1951, he married Anne Seward Gilson. The couple were stationed at Kaluaaha from 1852 to 185 and at Lahainaluna from 1856 to 1860, when Andrews resigned from the mission and moved to Makawao in search of a better climate for his wife's health.In 1861, he purchased a piece of land above the village, where he founded the East Mau'i Female Seminary, later to become Maunaolu Seminary. Mrs Andrews died in 1862 and in accordance with her wish, he married her sister, Samantha Washburn Gilson, in 1863. Andrews spent the years at Makawao and Lahainaluna until 1876, when the couple made a visit to the United States. He died at sea onhis way back to Honolulu. Andrews and his first wife had seven children. +++++++++++++++++++++ HARRIET COUSENS ANDREWS (1875-1963) Born in Chicago, Harriet Cousins grew up in Maine. She attended Emerson College in Boston and then taught at Ithica High School in New York State. She married Cornell professor Arthur L. Andrews in 1903 and came with him in 1910 when he accepted a post in the Department of English at the College of Hawai'i. He later became head of the department ad dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University, which was organized in 1920. Mrs. Andrews was quite active during Worls War I in several organizations. Among her many other community services was for the first presidency of the League of Women Voters of Hawai'i, President of the Woman's Society of the Central Union Church, President of the University of Hawai'i Women's Faculty Club, and President of the YWCA of Honolulu. She also served as a member of the Hawai'i Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations and as local acting chairman of the Pan-Pacific Union Woman's Conference. ++++++++++++++++++++ LORRIN ANDREWS (1795-1868) A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Andrews arrived with his wife, Mary Ann Wilson Andrews, in 1827. They were stationed at Lahaina, Mau'i. where in 1831, he was the first head of Lahainaluna Seminary, set up to train young men to be ministers. He resigned as a mssionary in 1842 because he objected that the Boston headquarters received funds from some slave states. To earn a living, he was allowed to take charge of the printing and binding office at Lahainaluna, where he taught the students how to print from copper plates. Andrews compiled a Hawai'ian vocabulary in 1836, a grammer of the language in 1854, and a dictionary in 1865. Instruction at the Seminary was in Hawai'ian, and Andrews translated into that language some fifteen books, used as texts. Andrews was appointed judge of the court of O'ahu in 1845 and later served the government as secretary of the privy council and first associate justice of the Supreme Court. He and his wife had seven children. ++++++++++++++++++++ SETH LATHROP ANDREWS (1809 - 1893 ) Born in Putney, Vermont, Andrews graduated from Dartmouth College in 1831, received a medical degree from the Fairfield Medcal College, pracised in New York, and then volunteered for missionary service. He married Parnelly Pierce before sailing to Hawai'i with the Eighth Company. Arriving in 1837, the couple were assigned to Kailua, Hawai'i. Andrews became a superintendent of a Sunday School along with his practice of medicine, while his wife taught a school of some fifty pupils. By 1846, Andrews was the sole physician on the Big Island and had to attend eleven mission stations and a population of more than sixty thousand Hawai'ians. In 1848, he preformed one of the first autopsies in the Pacific region. The strain of his work weakened his health and he become bedridden. After the loss of a son as well as his wife, he returned to the United States in 1849. Improved in health, he married again and in later years practiced medicine in Romeo, Michigan. By his frst wife, Andrews had four children. +++++++++++++++++++ RICHARD ARMSTRONG (1805-1860) Born in Pennsylvania, after three years at Princeton Theological Seminary, Armstrong arrived in Hawai'i with the Fifth Company, along with his wife, Clarissa Chapman Armstrong, in 1832. He was stationed for a year at the mission in the Marquesas Islands and later built a church on Mau'i. He was pastor of the Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu from 1840 to 1848. In that year he left the mission to become Minister of Public Instruction after the death of William Richards. Armstrong was to serve the government for the remainder of his life. He was a member of the privy council and the House of Nobles, and acted as the Royal Chaplain. He aided efforts to attain Hawai'ian independence. He set up the Board of Education under the Kingdom in 1855 and was president until his death. The Armstrongs had ten children. A son, Samuel Chapman Armstrong ( 1839-1929), become a Union General in the Civil War and was founder of Hampton Institute in Virginia in 1868. ++++++++++++++++++++++ CHARLES N. ARNOLD (1880-1929) Born at Ookala, North Hilo, Hawai'i, Arnold was educated at City Schools in Honolulu. He held several jobs before joining the Honolulu Plantation Co., at Aiea, where he retired as plantation purchaser and warehouse manager after twenty-seven years with the firm. Except for a two year period, Arnold was a member of the Honolulu Board of Supervisors from 1911 until he was elected Mayor of the City in 1926. He had also served one term in the Territorial Senate. He was defeated for re-election in 1928, a year before his death. ++++++++++++++++++ HENRY LOREN ARNOLD SR., ( 1887-1971) Born in Owosso, Michigan, Arnold graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1911 and practiced at his native town for five years. He accepted a commission in the Army Medical Corps from 1917-1921 but decided not to remain in the service after visiting Hawai'i. In Honolulu, he was a founding partner in 1921 of the Straub Clinic, working in internal medicine. He was a leader in medical activities until his retirement in 1967, having served not only at Straub but also at Queen's Hospital, from 1939 to 1957. He was an authorative commissioner, the first of his kind, of Poisonous Plants of Hawai'i. He published articles on his subjects. ++++++++++++++++++++ MARGUERITE KAMEHAKALANI ASHFORD ( 1891-1970) Born in Honolulu, daughter of jurist Clarenece W. Ashford, Marguerite decided to follow the law. She graduated from Punahou School and the University of California and obtained a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1915. She was admitted to the bar the following year. She was deputy Attorney General for the Hawai'i Legislature, 1934-53., delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1950, and Commissioner of Public Lands in the Cabinet of Governor Samuel Wilder King from 1952 to 1955. She retired from active practice in 1946 and become a ditrict Jdge on the Island of Moloka'i. +++++++++++++++++++ JOSEPH BALLARD ATHERTON ( 1837-1903 ) Atherton was born and educated in Boston. One of his schoomates who had become a lifelong friend was Peter Cushman Jones. After leaving high school, Atherton worked for the commission house before sailing to Hawai'i in search of improved health. He was taken into the family of Samuel Northrup Castle and held a position in the general store of Castle & Cooke. In 1865, he became junior partner in the firm and married Juliette Montague Cooke. His father-in-law retired from active business in the late 1860s, leaving his son Joseph P. Cooke, along with Atherton, in charge under the direction of Castle. When Castle died in 1894, Atherton became the senior member of the old firm, which in that year was incorporated as Castle & Cooke,Ldt., and was elected President, a post he held till death. Early in the 1860s, the firm became active in the development of the sugar industry and Atherton was instrumental in representing such groups as the Paia Plantation and the Haiku Sugar Co., both on the island of Mau'i. He was one of those incorporating the Ewa Plantation Co., on O'ahu and in 1898, in association with B.F. Dillingham and others. He organized the Waialua Agricultural Co. Atherton was director of half a dozen other business enterprises and was a trustee and active member for more than twenty years of the Hawai'ian Sugar Planters' Association. He was a leader in church work and was one of the founders of the YMCA in Hawai'i. He was also among the first in the territory to purchase an automobile, a small electric car. The Athertons had six children. +++++++++++++++++++++ ALATAU TAMCHIBOULAC ATKINSON ( 1848-1906) The given names of Atkinson derive from his birth on the Kirgiz steppes of Siberia, when his English parents were making a exploration trip. " Alatau " comes from the mountains of the region and his second name was that of a spring at the base of the Alatau range. Atkinson received his education from Rugby School in England and he become a master at Durham College. He married Anne Elizabeth Humble at Newcastle and the pair arrived in Hawai'i in 1868. Atkinson took charge of St. Alban's College, an Episcopal school under Bishop T.N. Staley, and later became principal of the old Fort Street School. In 1881, Atknson became editor of the Hawai'ian Gazette and helped greatly to shape public opinion. He was made Inspector General of Public Schools in 1887 and helped both under the monarchy and the Republic to fashion a competent school system. When Hawai'i was annexed by the United States in 1898, he was put in charge of the census. He also served in the House of Representatives that year. At the time of his death, he was survived by seven children, one of whom married Samuel G. 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