Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 12. August 2, 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, 7:32 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands August 2, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 2, 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 12. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 12 Important People WALTER FRANCIS DILLINGHAM ( 1875 -1963 ) Born in Honolulu, son of Benjamin Franklin Dillingham. He was educated at Punahou School and Harvard University. He began his business career as a clerk in the offices of the O'ahu Railway & Land Co, founded by his father, and in 1900 became manager of Dowsett & Co., Ltd. He organized and was the first manager and treasurer of the Hawai'ian Dredging Co., Ltd., and began a lifelong concern for develoing harbors at Honolulu, Hilo, Kahului, Ahukini, and Kamelapau, and for improving the Pearl Harbor Naval Base -- where his firm as joint contractor built a gigantic drydock completed in 1919. In 1904, when his father became ill, Walter with the help of his brother, Harold Garfield Dillingham, took over the family interests and weathered a financial crisis. The firm also reclaimed land in Waikiki and Ala Moana Park ad dredged Kewalo Basin for the fishing boats; later, under the supervision of Walter's eldest son, Lowell Smith Dillingham, the spreading Ala Moana Center shopping complex was constructed. During World War II, Hawai'ian Dredging did major contracting work at Kaneohe Bay, O'ahu, and at Johnson, Midway, Wake and Guam Islands. Walter Dillingham was a director of many local firms and promoted the construction of the Dillingham Transportation Building. He also helped to develop the Los Angeles Steamship Co., later merged with Matson Navigation Co. Despite his many business interests, Dillinham was a sharp shooter and commander of mounted reserves during the counter revolution of 1895 and was often called upon to head such efforts as the Board of Health campaign during the Cholera epidemic of 1899. His favorite recreation was polo; he organized the Hawai'ian Polo and Racing Association and captained victorious teams in many matches on the mainland. Walter Dillingham, a confirmed Republican who never sought office, is regarded as the leader of the anti-statehood forces that for many years were able to defer the granting of full citizenship to Hawai'ian residents, He married Louise Olga Gaylord in Florence, Italy, in 1910. In addition to Lowell, the couple had three other children; Benjamn Franklin Dillingham, Jr., Henry Gaylord Dillingam ( a flyer killed in World War II ), and Elizabeth Louise Dilligham. For years their home, La Pietra, on Diamond Head, was a showplace and the foremost center of hospitality for visiting celebrities. +++++++++++++ HENRY DIMOND ( 1808 -1895 ) Born in Fairfield, Connecticut, Dimond was trained as a bookbinder and studied for almost three years at New York University before marrying Ann Maria Anner in November, 1834, and sailing with the Seventh Company of American missionaries a month later. The Dimonds were stationed at the Mission Press in Honolulu where, under his charge, hundreds of thousands of church publications were turned out. The first complete edition of the Bible in Hawai'ian was finished in May, 1839. After 1850 Dimond was not needed and he was released by the mission to engage in a mercantile business in Honolulu. The Dimonds had seven children. ++++++++++++++++++ GEORGE DIXON Dixon was armorer on the Discovery under James Cook, during his third Pacific voyage. As master of the Queen Charlotte, Dixon sailed incompany with Nathaniel Portlock on trading voyages between the Northwest Coast of America and China that first visited the Hawai'ian Islands in 1786. The Queen Charlotte arrived May 20, and departed June 13. It returned November 16 and departed March 15, 1787. On the third voyage it arrived September 5, 1787, and departed September 18. +++++++++++++++++ ISAMI DOI ( 1903 -1965 ) Born in Ewa, O'ahu, Doi studied art for two years under Profesor Chipman at the University of Hawai'i and spent five more years at Columbia University. He returned to O'ahu in 1928 and held his first one man show, but maintained a studio in New York City from 1931 to 1937. He moved from O'ahu to Kaua'i in 1938. Doi published two books of wood carvings, including some chosen among fifty best prints in the United States in several competitions. Best known for his oils, Doi also worked in jewelry, ceramics, and engravings. The Honolulu Academy of Arts possessed two watercolors, six oils, and forty of his prints at the time of his death. ++++++++++++++++ DANIEL DOLE (1808 -1878 ) Born in Bloomfield, Maine, Dole graduated from Bowdoin College in 1836 and Bangor Theological Seminary in 1839. He was ordained in 1840 and with his wife Emily Hoyt Ballard Dole, arrived with the Ninth Company of American missionaries at Hawai'i the following year. In 1841, Dole was the first principal of an academy built on the outskirts of Honolulu for the education of the childrenof Protestant missionaries; in 1853 it was granted a government charter under the title of " Punahou School and O'ahu College " It is still thriving known as "the oldest high school wes of the Rockies." Dole resigned as principal in 1853 and became pastor of a congregation at Kaloa, Kaua'i. Although released from the mission work, he continued to work at Kaloa until his death. By his first marriage Dole had tw hildren; George Hathaway Dole and Sanford Ballard Dole, who later headed the government of the islands for a decade. When his first wife died in 1844, Daniel Dole married Mrs. Charlotte Close Knapp, widow of missionary Horton Owen Knapp. ++++++++++++++++ JAMES DRUMMOND DOLE (1877 - 1958 ) Dole was born in Boston, a relative of Sanford Ballard Dole. He attended private and public schools in Boston and obtained a bacheor's degree from Harvard University in 1899. In that year he came to Hawai'i and pioneered in the Pineapple industry, still the second most important source of agricultural income in the islands. A band of farmers from Southern California had homesteaded around Wahiawa, O'ahu. They had reduced stoop labor by planting the prickly rows of pineapples with lanes between so that they could be cultivated by horse drawn vehicles. The mechanics of preparing and canning the fruit so that the product would not explode on docks or grocery shelves was, however, still to be solved. Dole realized that the future lay in canned fruit of high quality. On December 4, 1901, he organized the Hawai'ian Pineapple Co., whose first crop was packed in 1903. The company in 1906 set up a plant in the Iwilei district of Honolulu which was one of the largest fruit canneries in the world. Dole was president and general manager of the company from 1903 to 1932, when he was made chairman of the board until his retirement in 1948. The company purchased most of te island of Lana'i in 1922 for $1,100,000 and developed a harbor, a " city " for workers, and a vast plantation. Marketing a luxury fruit was a problem and the Hawai'ian Pineapple Growers Association was formed in 1908 to begin a successful publicity campaign. A publicity effort not so successful was Dole's offer in 1927 of two prizes amounting to $25,000, for the first civilian aircraft to fly from California to Hawai'i. Out of eight planes starting from Oakland, two smashed wile taking off, two were forced to turn back, two others disappeared in the Pacific, and only two entries completed this longest overwater race up to that time. Altogether, the Dole Derby cost the lives of ten persons. Eased out of active management of Hawai'ian Pineapple Co. in 1932, Dole worked in the Agricultural Administration in Washington, D.C., in 1933, and in 1937 moved to San Francisco, where he remained until he returned to Hawai'i in 1958. In 1937, he developed a process for canning natural carrot juice, and in 1940, one for canning and bottling apple juice. He later devised a milk canning process. In 1906, Dole married Belle Dickey of Honolulu and they had five children. ++++++++++++++++ SANFORD BALLARD DOLE ( 1844 - 1926 ) The long life of Dole spanned the pre-statehood epochs of modern Hawai'ian history, in which he took a leading role. He was born in Honolulu, son of Daniel Dole, founder of Punahou School. Saford spent a year at Williams College, Massachusetts, nd studied fr another year in the office of a Washington, D.C. lawyer before being admitted to the courts of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in 1867. He returned to Hawai'i soon thereafter and set up a practice while engaging in a lifelong concern with politics. He married Anna P. Cate of Castine, Maine in 1873 ( she died childless). Dole was elected to the legislature of the Kingdom in 1884 and was prominent in the reform movement that led to the "Bayonet Constitution " of 1887. In 1884, he drafted and saw enacted the first Hawai'ian homestead law. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1886 as an associate justice and served for six years. A leader among those who overturned the monarchy in 1893, Dole was elected President of the Provisional Government and firmly led the islands through the difficult times of the Republic and into annexation by the United States. He diplomatically weatered the counter- revolution led by Robert W. Wlcox to retore Queen Lili'uokalani, and was appointed by President William McKinley as first governor of the Territory of Hawai'i in 1900. He served until 1903 and then was named United States district Judge, a post he held until 1916, when he retired to private practice. In 1911, Dole and former queen were publically reconciled. For a number of terms Judge Dole, unmistakable with his long white beard, was president of the Hawai'i Bar Association. Dole was early interested in literature and his memoirs appeared after his death. +++++++++++++++++ JOHN OWEN DOMINIS (1832 -1981 ) Born in Schenectady, New York, the future prince consort was a son of a ship captain from the Mediterranean who had prospered in the trade of furs and casks of salmon from Northwestern America. The son arrived with hs parentsin Hawai'i around 1840. The captain was apparetly lost at sea in the next decade. Dominis worked for G. B. Post & Co., San Francisco, during the gold rush, and then for several years with R. Cody & Co., ship chandler in Honolulu. Dominis became secretary and chamberlain to King Kamehameha IV. On the death of Mataio Kekuanaoa in 1868, Kamehameha V appointed Dominis governor of O'ahu, a post he held until 1887. He was also commissioner of crown lands and a Lieutenant General in the army of Kalakaua. In 1862, Dominis married Lydia Lili'uokalani. They lived in the Dominis home, which had been built by his father, and after his fathers death, his mother had rented out rooms as a boarding house to important visitors. The house was on Washington Place, and is now the official residence of the Governors of Hawai'i. Dominis exercised wise restraint over his somewhat headstrong wife, and had he lived long enough during her crisis, her abrupt abdication might have been adverted; however, he died seven months after her accession to the crown in 1819. He fathered a son, and 2 adopted children, a daughter and a son. +++++++++++++++++ DAVID DOUGLAS (1798 -1834 ) Douglas was a Scottish botanist who collected many plants in Oregon and California as well as in Hawai'i. The Douglas fir bears his name. He first visited Hawai'i in 1832 and returned in 1833. In his last year, he tried to walk across the Big Island. He was found in a pit with a trapped bull and apparently had been gored to death, but peope who knew him, claimed that he had been robbed and murdered. A plague marks the spot, known on the maps as Kaluakauka, or " the doctor's pit." +++++++++++++++++ JAMES ISAAC DOWSETT ( 1829 -1898 ) Dowsett, eldest son of Samuel James Dowsett, ws said to have been the first Anglo-Saxon child, not of missionary parentage, born in the Islands. Less than five years old whe his father sailed away, he was hardly more than twelve when he was hired by the Hudson's Bay Co., but continued his schooling on the side. His mother refused offers of remarriage and remained a widow until her death. During his youth, Dowsett was a playmate of Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V, and future King Lunalilo. The young man made small investments and became one of the leaders in developing the whaling trade in the islands. He soon owned a fleet of whaling ships that made annual forays into the Arctic. He also engaged in lumber business and had a little fleet of scooners and small steamers operating among the islands. He also owned ranches and sugar plantations on O'ahu, and obtained the famous Ulupalukua Ranch on Mau'i. he developed blooded stock and was first to import Aberdeen Angus cattle. During the 1880's and 1890's, Dowsett engaged in politics; he was a member of the House of Nobles during the reigns of Kalakaua and Lili'uokalani, but was a supporter of the Revolution in 1893. Dowsett died on June 14, 1898, shortly before the American Flag was raised over Hawai'i. He had married Anne Green Ragsdale and the couple were parents of thirteen children left to develop his wide holdings, The most successful capitalist in the family was Samuel Henry Dowsett, a grandson of the sea captain, who was manager of the Dowsett Co., Ltd. ++++++++++++++++ SAMUEL JAMES DOWSETT ( 1794-1834 ) Dowsett, an early settler in the islands, was born in Rochester, Kent, in England, the eldest of twenty one brothers and one of twenty three children. His, wife Mary Bishop, was also of English descent. Dowsett first saw the islands in 1822 as first officer of the cutter Mermaid, which accompanied the schooner Prince Regent, a six gun vessel promised to Kamehameha I by George Vancouver. Dowsett returned to his station in Sydney, Austraila and there purchased a ship, Wellington, which he sailed to Honolulu in 1828. accompanied by his wife and infant daughter. The captain engaged in trade in Hawai'i. On June 1, 1834, he sailed from Honolulu in command of the ship Victoria on a pearl-fishing expedition to the Pescadores Islands, leaving his wife and four childen; Deborah Melville ( born at Melville Island ) James Isaac; Elizabeth Jane, who later married M.C. Monsarrat; and Samuel Henry Dowsett. When Captain Dowsett had not returned after a year, the government sent the brig Waverly to seek him. The brig was cut off by natives of Strong's Island, captain and crew were murdered, and the ship burned. No trace was ever seen of Captain Dowsett. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in part 13. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan33nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 15.5 Kb