Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 7. July 30, 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, 7:28 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands July 30, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 July 30, 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People -- Part 7. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 7. Important People LYDIA BROWN (1780-1865 ) Born in Wilton, New Hampshire, Lydia Brown arrived in Hawai'i in 1835 with the Seventh Company of American missionaries. Although she was already fifty-five years old in that year and thus the oldest black mission member to begin laboring in the field, she was able to devote herself to the work for thirty more busy years. She was stationed with the Richard Armstrong family at Wailuku,. Mau'i, from 1835 to 1840. She instructed native girls in carding, spinning, weaving, and knitting Hawai'ian grown cotton and wool. The governor of the big Island ordered the building of a cotton factory at Kailua in 1837 to carry on th work. By the spring of 1839 about six hundred yards of cloth had been woven at Wailuku and four hundred yards at Kailua. Lydia Brown was then sent to Kaluaaha and there she conducted a school for young ladies from 1849 to 1851. She left in 1857 for Lahaina and then for Honolulu, where she died at the end of the Civil War, during which she hd cheered the advances of the Union Army. ++++++++++++++++++ WILLIAM BROWN Brown, an early trading Captain, first arrived in command of the British ship Butterworth in 1793, in hich he entered Honolulu Harbor ---probably the first foreigner to do so. For a while this was called " Brown's Harbor." He returned in 1794 as master of the Jackal, in company with Captain Gordon of the Prince Lee Boo. Brown sold arms to Kalanikapule and eight sailors from the two vessels fought on the side of this chief against Kaeo. Later both Brown and Gordon were murdered under orders of Kalanikapule in an attempt to steal the ships. +++++++++++++++++ WILLIAM ALANSON BRYAN (1875-1942 ) Born in New Sharon, Iowa, Bryan obtained a batchlor's degree from Iowa State College in 1896. He came to Hawai'i in 1899 to investigate Hawai'ian fauna for the United States Deparment of Agriculture, and was curator of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu from 1900 to 1907. From 1909 to 1919 he was professor of zoology and geology at the College of Hawai'i. From 1921 until his retirement in 1940 he was director of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. He published several works on Hawai'ian flora and fauna. +++++++++++++++++ SIR PETER HENRY BUCK ( TE RANGI HIROA ) (1880-1951) Buck was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand. His father was Irish and his mother was Maori. He obtained a medical degree and served during World War I as a major in the Medical Corps with Maori troops. He found that a knowledge of Polynesian culture was essential in treating his patients and began researches for which he received the Rivers Medal from the Royal Anthropological Society in 1936. In that year he was appointed ethnologist and director of the Bernice P. Bishop Musem in Honolulu and served until 1951. He was made a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George in 1936. He published a number of scientific works. +++++++++++++++++++++ JAMES BURNEY (1750-1821) Burney signed on as an able seaman on the Resolution in 1772 and was later transferred to the Adventure during the second Pacific voyage of James Cook. He became the first Lieutenant under Charles Clerke in the Discovery in February, 1776, and survived the third Cook voyage, returning to England in Command of that ship. Some years later, having served with the East Indies squadron and reached the rank of Admiral, a feat which not many black seamen made. Burney retired from the Navy and devoted his leisure to writing. His most important work was a five-volume chronological history of early European voyages in the Pacific, which reached no farther than 1764. Barney was a friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Charles Lamb, and his sister, Fanny Burney, was a novelist of note. Barneys' private journal gives one of the most graphic accounts of Cook's third voyage. +++++++++++++++++++++ JOHN ANTHONY BURNS (1909 -1975 ) Born in Fort Assiniboine, Montana, Burns attended St. Louis High School and the University of Hawai'i. He married Beatrice Majors Van Fleet in 1931, and they had two sons and a daughter. Burns was a menber of the Honolulu Poice Department from 1934 to 1945, rising to the rank of Captain in 1941. Thereafter, he was president and manager of a retail store and administrator of the O'ahu Civil Defense Agency from 1951 to 1955. He headed the real-estate firm of Burns & Co., from 1955 to 1962. Burns began a political career in 1948 as chairman of the Democratic County Committee. From 1957 to 1959 he was delegate from the Territory of Hawai'i to the United States Congress. He is credited with devising the strategy by which Hawai'i finally achieved Statehood; he supported the admission of Alaska and therefore was sure that the claims of Hawai'i could not be denied. Burns ran as a Democrat for the first governorship of the new state in 1959, but was defeated by the appointed Republican incumbent. William Francis Quinn. However, Burns won in the regular election of 1962 and, with strong support from organized union forces and veterans of the American-Japanese volunteers from Hawai'i in World War II, led the movement that swtched the island political predominence from Republican to Democrat. Burns belonged to a number of civic groups and received several honorary degrees. He left office in 1974 after a third term and died the following April. The John A. Burns School of Medicine at the Manoa campus of the University of Hawai'i bears his name. ++++++++++++++++++ LORD BYRON ( GEORGE ANSON ) (1789-1858) Captain of the Right Honourable George Anson, R.N., who entered the Royal Navy in 1800, commanded the forty-six gun frigate Blonde, which the London government sent to Hawai'i in 1824 to carry back the bodies of Kamehameha II and his wife Kamamalu. This Lord Byron, a cousin of the poet, visited Hilo, later often called " Byron's Bay," and the volcano at Kilauea, where " Byron's Ledge" lies below the Volcano House Hotel. In 1825 Byron and his men were the first to study the region scientifically. He held instructions to be friendly with the Hawai'ian chiefs but not to interfere with their independence. However, at a meeting of chiefs on June 6, Lord Byron offered suggestions, one of which -- trial by jury -- was adopted. During his visit he presented the first magic-lantern show in the history of the islands, using a projector and slides brought on the ship for this purpose. ++++++++++++++++++++ ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL (1787-1821) Born near Glasgow, Scotland, Campbell ran away to sea at the age fourteen. He made various voyages in whaling ships before losing both feet from frostbite while wrecked on the coast of Alaska. He arrived in Hawai'i in 1809 on the Russian Imperial ship Neva, and was employed as a sailmaker for Kamehameha I. Campbel wrote his memoirs and historians are indebted to him for a number of descriptions of this monarch during the heighth of his power. He also gave good accounts of native customs, seen from the view of a wandering scotsman. He published his memoirs and with the proceeds he went to New York and entered a small business. ++++++++++++++++++ JAMES ALEXANDER CAMPBELL ( 1856-1941 ) Born in Honolulu, the young man attended Punahou School and graduated from the University of California in 1879. Campbell took a leading part in developing the banana industry in the islands, and his poultry ranch at Mokuleia became one of the largest and modern on O'ahu. He was president of A.J. Campbell, Ltd., a brokerage firm, and helped to organize the Honolulu Stock Exchange from 1914 to 1915 and from 1925 to 1926. He was a director of several companies and was a territorial treasurer under Governors George Robert Carter and Walter Francis Frear. +++++++++++++++++++++ JAMES CAMPBELL (1826-1900) Born in Londonderry, Ireland, of Scottish-Irish parents, Campbell ran away to sea at the age of thirteen and survivied various adventures in New England and on a South Sea island, where his whaling vessel was wrecked. He finally landed at Lahaina, Mau'i, where, having saved some money as a carpenter, he started a sugar plantation in 1861. In the early 1870's, in partnership with Harry Turton, Campbell founded the Pioneer Mill at Lahaina, forrunner of a great operation later sold to H. Hackfield & Co., Campbell realized the value of land in the islands and constantly increased his holdings; he once owned much of the area where the town of Lahaina now stands, and gained the nickname of " Kimo-ona-milliona " ( James the millonaire) Campbell moved to Honolulu and in 1877 married Abigail Kuaihelani Maipinepine. They had four daughters. Campbell next turned his efforts to stock raising and bought two ranches on O'ahu--- one at Kahuku and one at Honouliuli -- where the finest blooded cattle were reared; later these properties were used for cultivating sugar cane. At a time when most of the lands in the Ewa area were considered worthless, Campbell acquired huge tracts that became part of the impressive fortune still administered under the Estate of James Campbell. Two Campbell Blocks in the downtown Honolulu were also part of the estate's holdings. Campbell also supported the first telephone and electric-light companies in the Islands. Campbell is best known, perhaps, for having bored the first flowing well of artesian water in Hawai'i. This was done near his ranch house at Honolulu and made possible the successful cultivation of sugar at Ewa. Campbell retired from active business affairs in 1895 and spent some years in travel. He figured in 1896 in a sensational kidnapping case in San Francisco, escaping from a brutal captor who later was given a life sentence for the crime. +++++++++++++++++++++++ GEORGE QUAYLE CANNON ( 1827-1901 ) Cannon was born in Liverpool,England, where the family became converts to the Church of Latter-Day Saints when he was thirteen. He crossed the Atlantic in 1842, heading the Morman headquarters at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he learned the printing business under his uncle, a newspaper editor. Cannon served as a Morman missionary to Hawai'i from 1850 to 1854, assigned to the island of Mau'i. and won many converts. He quickly learned the language and early in 1852 began the translation of the Book of Mormon into Hawai'ian; in this work he was assisted by two Hawai'ians. J.W.H. Kauwahi and J.H. Napela. The final revision was completed just two years later. Cannon left for the mainland in 1854 and published the volume in San Francisco. He returned to Hawai'i in the autumn of 1900 as guest of honor at the jubilee of the opening of the Mormon Mission to the Islands. ++++++++++++++++++ CARL CARLSMITH ( originally -- CARL S. SCHMIDT) ( 1870-1959 ) Carl S. Schmidt was born in Cambridge, Vermont, son of Edward Charles and Marilla ( Derby ) Smith, and studied at the public schools of San Jose, California. He attended the University of California and Stanford University and gained a law degree from Northwestern University in 1896. He came to Hawai'i the following year and opened a practice at Hilo, founding a law firm still flourishing today, His surname was legally changed in 1911 to Carlsmith. He married Nellie Wood in 1897 and the couple had four children. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in part 8. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan28nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 12.4 Kb