Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 13. August 3, 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 3, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 3, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawi'ian Islands Important People -- Part 13 by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 13 Important People JULES DUDOIT (1803 -1866 ) Born in Port Louis, Mauritius, Dudoit went to America at the age of thirteen to become a seaman, and was back at Mauritius in 1826 as captain of a brig, Le Courier de Tamatave. He sailed for Australia in 1832 in command of the brig Clementine, named for his wife, who had died less than a year after their wedding. After several years of Pacific trading, he first arrived in Hawai'i in 1835. He returned to Honolulu and married a fifteen year old shipmate, Anna Corney, orphaned daughter of Peter Corney. The Clementine, which Dudoit had chartered to several local business men in 1837, was the prison of the French Priests Bachelot and Short. Dudoit served as the rather contentious French Consul from 1837 to 1848,when he was replaced by Guillaume Patrice Dillon, as even more chauvinistic career diplomat. Dudoit became a Hawai'ian subject and continued his business affairs in Honolulu until he was murdered by his Chinese cook. The name of Dudoit is not uncommaon in Hawai'i today. +++++++++++++ IRA BARNES DUTTON [ Brother Joseph ] ( 1843 - 1931 ) Dutton, who became a Catholic lay missionary at the leper colony on the island of Moloka'i, was born at Stowe, Vermont. He attended the academy at Milton, Wisconsin, where his mother was a teacher. Dutton enlisted in the Union forces as a private and in 1865 was commissioned as a first Lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. After ten years of government service, as a Catholic convert he heard of the labors of Father Damein. Dutton went at once to Moloka'i and began a lifelong devotion to the work of the mission. In more than forty years he did not leave the peninsula for one day, and was untiring in his labors. In 1889 Brother Dutton administered the estate of Damein and later became builder and superintendent of the Baldwin Home for orphan boys and helpless cases at Kalawao, two miles from the settlement at Kalaupapa. Dutton's greatest recognition came when the American Great White Fleet, on a World Cruise, saluted him from the Molokai Channel in 1908. +++++++++++++++ SAMUEL GELSTON DWIGHT ( 1815 - 1880 ) Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Dwight graduated from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1847. A single man, he sailed with the twelfth Company of American Missionaries and in 1848 was stationed at Kaluaaha, Moloka'i. He was released from the service in 1854 and married Anna Mahoe, but remained as scribe at Kaluaaha until 1857 and also operated a dairy farm at Pukoo. The Dwights then moved to Honolulu for the rest of their lives. They had six children. +++++++++++++++ WILLIAM ELLIS ( 1794 -1872 ) Born in London of a poor family, Ellis was ordained in 1815 as a member of the London Missionary Society. For five years after 1817, he and his wife labored in the Society Islands in the South Pacific, where he was a pioneer printer in the region. He arrived in Hawai'i on March 28, 1822, in the Prince Regent with a delegation of the Society. His knowledge of Tahitian language enabled him to learn Hawai'ian quickly, and he was the first person to preach a sermon in the latter tongue. His help at the printing press set up by Elisha Loomis was so greatly appreciated that he was invited to return to Hawai'i and work permanently. Ellis returned from the South Pacific with his family in 1823. At that time no mission station had been opened on the island of Hawai'i, and Ellis was a member of a party sent to look for suitable sites. In June they began a two month circuit of the Big Island by foot and canoe. Ellis an three other members of the group, including Rev. Asa Thurston and the rev. Artemas Bishop, were the first foreigners to ascend the active volcano of Kilauea After eighteen months the Ellises left for England because of the wife's health. ++++++++++++++ JOHN S. EMERSON ( 1800 -1867 ) Born in Chester, New Hampshire, Enerson graduated from Dartmouth College in 1826 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1830. He married Ursula Sophia Newell in October, 1831, and in November the couple sailed for Hawai'i with the Fifth Company of American missionaries. They opened the station of Waialua, O'ahu, in 1832, and served there until 1842; there Emerson translated several books and encouraged reading of the Bible in Hawai'ian. he worked at Lahainaluna School from 1842 to 1846 and again at Waialua until 1864, remaining there after he resigned from the misson. Mrs. Emerson walked hundreds of miles to attend the sick and was a skilled teacher. The family reared eight children including Nathaniel Bright Emerson. +++++++++++++++ NATHANIEL BRIGHT EMERSON. ( 1839 -1915 ) Emerson was born at Waialua, O'ahu, son of Rev. John S. Emerson. After attending Punahou School, the son served for two years in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He then completed his course at Williams College in Massachusetts and studied medicine at Harvard University and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, which granted him an M.D. degree in 1869. He was called back to Hawai'i in 1878 as general inspector of lepers and leper stations. He married Dr. Sarah E. Pierce in 1881 ad succeeded Dr. George P. Trousseau as president of the Board of Health. Emerson's knowledge of the Hawai'ian language and people enabled him to become a skilled translator and outstanding student of folklore. +++++++++++++++++ EMMA ( 1836 -1885 ) At birth, the future queen was given the name of Kalanikaumakeamano; after the death of her husband and son she took the name of Kaleleonalani. She was a granddaughter of John Young ad his second wife, the chieftess Kaonaeha ( Melie Kuamoo ), Emma was also the great-grandaughter of Keliimaikai, full brother of Kamehameha I. Her parents were George Naea and Fanny Kakelaokalani Young. As a child, Emma was adopted by her maternal aunt, Grace Kamaikui Young Rooke, whose husband was Dr. Thomas Charles Byde Rooke, a member of the Church of England. However, for a time Emma attended the Chief's Childen's School and later had an English governess, recieving an excellent education in western ways. Emma was married on June 19, 1856, to Kamehameha IV and shared the experiences of his reign. She took outstanding roles in the founding of the Queen's Hospital, named for her, and during the short life of Albert, the Prince of Hawai'i. The couple shared the introduction of the Episcopal Church in Hawai'i. Emma also sponsered the founding of St. Andrew's Priory, a school for girl's. After the death of Kamehameha IV, Emma made a trip abroad, during which she became a friend of Queen Victoria of the British Empire. She returned to Hawai'i in 1866 and lived quietly intil she felt called upon to return to the throne. When King Lunalilo died in 1874 without naming a succesor, under the constitution the new king had to be elected by the Legislative Assembly. Both David Kalakaua and Emma, the dowager Queen, announced as candidates. Right after the electin of 1874 when only six votes out of thirty nine were cast for Emma, a mob of her supporters attacked the courthouse. Further riot was prevented only aftr Kalakaua arranged for American and British marines to be landed from warship in the harbor. Emma acknowledged Kalakaua as King on February 13 and advised her followers to do the same. +++++++++++++++++ WALTER LEAVITTE EMORY (1868 -1929 ) Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Emory married Winfred A. Pike in 1893. The couple came to Hawai'i in 1898 to invest in coffee plantations, but instead he became as assistant superintendent of construction at the Alexander Young Bulding. He continued in construction work until 1908, when he formed a partnership with architect Marshal H. Webb, the second such firm formed in Honolulu. This company was resposible for the design of such edifices as the Advertiser Building, the James Campbell Buildng, the Palama and Hawai'i Theaters, the Blaisdell Hotel, the new Central Union Church, Love's Bakery, the Liberty House Annex, and the Castle Hall dormatory and Cooke Art Gallery at Punahou School. Emory was first president of the Hawai'i Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and was also a noted collector of stamps. ++++++++++++++++ JOHN ENA ( 1843 -1906 ) Born at Hilo of Chinese and Hawai'ian parentage, Ena worked at various trades until at the age of thirty four. He became a clerk for T.R. Foster & Co. of Honolulu. This firm owned a fleet of seven schooners plying among the islands and soon acquired its first steamer. It was incorporated in 1883 as the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., and Ena invested heavily in the stock. He was a member of the House of Nobles under the monarchy and was decorated in 1888 by King Kalakaua. He served on the Board of Health under the Provisional Government, and was a member of the Constitutional convention that set up the Republic of Hawai'i. He became president of the Inter-Island in 1899 and served until 1902, when he retired to Long Beach, California. ++++++++++++++= JOSEPH JAMES FERN (1872 -1920 ) Born in Kohala, Hawai'i, son of James and Kaipo Fern, the young man lived for years in the mountains of that region, hauling firewood on a bullock cart. He went to Honolulu at the age of nineteen and drove a mule car on the street railway. Later he worked on the docks for the Wilder Steamship Co., a d retained his position as labor-relations agent when the company consolidated with Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co; he later held the post of shipping master. When the City and County of Honolulu held its first elections in 1908, Fern, a democrat, was chosen mayor by a margin of seven votes, and held this office for most of the rest of his life. He lost the election of 1914, but regained the majoralty in 1917, and died in office in 1920, Fern was able to converse in five languages and appealed heavily to the strong native Hawai'ian vote of the time. he married three times and had numerous children. ++++++++++++++++ EDWARD KANE FERNANDEZ (1883 -1970 ) The future showman of Hawai'i was born in Honolulu, a descendant on his mother's side of chiefs of Mau'i. At the age of one year he was given a " baby luau" by King Kalakaua. the young man was a close friend of Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole. Fernandez attended Brigham Young University in Utah. He made early films and earned the nickname of " Keiki Kii Oni Oni," or moving-picture kid. He was manager and player on the first foreign baseball team to play Keio and Waseda Universities in Japan. Fernadez was elected to the Territorial House of Representatives in 1911 and remained in office until 1923. E.K. Fernandez organized his first circus in 1915, with twenty performers and six animals, including a skating bear. He took road shows and carnivals not only around the Hawai'ian Islands, but also to the Far East, Canada, and the United States mainland; in the 1930's three million people attended his performances. During World War II, he managed the old Aala Park Civic Center Theater, which gave shows for war workers. His efforts were honored by the Showman's League of America and the International Association of Fairs and Expositions. ++++++++++++++++ COCHRAN FORBES ( 1805 -1880 ) Born in Goshen, Pennsylvania, Forbes graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1831. He married Rebecca Duncan Smith in October of that year, and the couple sailed for Hawai'i with the Fifth Company of American missionaries in November. They were stationed at Kaawaloa and Kealakekua, Hawai'i, from 1832 to 1845 and at Lahaina, Mau'i, fom 1845 to1847, where he filled the post of seaman's chaplain at a time when as many as two hundred whale ships visited the port annually. The family retuned to the United States in 1847. Among their five children was Anderson Oliver Forbes (1833-1888), who married a daughter of Levi Chamberlain and was a preacher in Hawai'i from 1858 to 1888. +++++++++++++++++++ ALEXANDER HUME FORD (1868 -1945 ) Ford was born in Charleston, South Carolina, of an old Southern family. He graduated from Porter Military Academy in that city but turned to writing plays and magazine articles, and writing on newspapers. On a research trip, he visited Hawai'i for a week's stay in 1907 and remained the rest of his life. He decided to revive the old recreations of hiking and water sports; out of these efforts grew the Hawai'ian Trail and Mountain Club and the Outrigger Canoe Club on Waikiki Beach. Ford also supported the establishing of the Boy Scouts of America in the Islands. He organized a Hands around the Pacific Club and called a Pan-Pacific Conference, which was held in Honolulu in 1911, coincident with the birth of Mid-Pacific Magazine, a monthly edition, edited by Ford for the Pan-Pacific Union. As director general of the Union, Ford named as honorary officers the heads of every Pacific government of the period. The Pan-Pacific Club of Tokyo was the outstanding luncheon group of the Japanese Empire at the time. The union sponsored conferences in Honolulu and promoted others elsewhere in the Pacific. Ford retired from active work in 1939. He was well known in Honolulu as a publicist and spent much time at the Outrigger Club, where he was a friend of Jack London. +++++++++++++++++ SETH PORTER FORD (1818 -1866 ) Ford was born in Washington, Connecticut. He studied with several Physcians and was an associate of Dr. Willard Parker, who spoke highly of Ford's surgical skill. Dr. Ford arrived in Hawai'i in 1851 ad practised for fifteen years, eventually serving the United States Marine Hospital and the Hawai'ian Insane Asylum. He had an extremely large practice on the island of O'ahu and skillfully attended patients as far away as Laie on the North Shore. Ford Island in Pearl Harbor was named for his son, Seth Porter Ford Jr. +++++++++++++++++ ABRAHAM FORNANDER (1812 -1887 ) Fornander spent his early years in a rectory in Sweden as a university student preparing for the ministry. He deserted from a whaling ship in 1844 and passed the rest of his life in Honolulu, except for an interval when he prospected for gold in California. He was successively coffee planter, surveyor, newspaper and magazine editor, first inspector of schools, and judge. He married Alanakapu Kauapinao, daughter of Kaenaku Kalili, a medical kahuna and former governor of Moloka'i. Fornander became a champion of the declining Hawai'ian community and this sympathy brought him into collision with the " missionary " element in the government. He sent several young Hawai'ian men on tours to collect oral tradition in an attempt to piece together a history of the Hawai'ian branch of the Polynesian race. He became the formost collector of Hawai'ian lore from native infermants like David Malo and S.N. Kamakau, and published An Account of the Polynesian Race. ++++++++++++++ MARY EMMA DILLINGHAM FREAR (1870 -1957 ) Born in Honolulu, eldest daughter of Benjamin Franklin Dillingham, Mary graduated from Punahou School in 1888 and from Wellesley College in 1893. She married Walter Francis Frear in 1893. Mrs Frear was a founder of the College Club of Honolulu and the local YWCA, of which she was president for five years. She was one of the strong supporters of the University of Hawai'i and a member of its Board of Regents fron 1920 to 1943, and Frear Hall on the Manoa campus bears her name, Mrs Frear lectured on literary topics and published half a dozen books of prose and verse. +++++++++++++++++++++ WALTER FRANCIS FREAR ( 1863 -1948 ) Born in Grass Valley, California, of French Huguenot stock on his father's side and Pilgram ancestry on his mother's, Frear arrived in Hawai'i with these parents at the age of seven. He graduated from Punahou School in 1881, and received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1885, and a law degree from Yale in 1890. Returning to Hawai'i he became a law partner of Lorrain A. Thurston for two years. Frear was appointed second judge of the First Circuit Court by Queen Lili'uokalani in January,1893, just before the Revolution, and was appointed second associate justice of the Supreme Court by the Provisional Government in March. During the Republic, he was made first associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1896. He was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawai'i in 1900 and served until 1907, when he was named third governor of the territory by President Theodore Roosevelt Frear was thus on the bench during four regimes within eight years. He had also been one of the five commissioners appointed in 1898 to recommend to Congress the future form of government; this group drafted a bill that set up the Territory of Hawai'i under American law. During Frear's term as governor (1907 - 1913 ) the territories fiscal affairs were well managed, and rather large expeditures were made for harbor improvements, road construction, and other public works. Frear paid special attention to the problem of Hawai'ian homesteading and land settlement. He was chairman of the Hawai'ian delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1912. Frear left the senior partnership of a law firm to become president of the Bishop Trust Co., in 1924 he retired as chairman of the board in 1934. He took time to engage in various civic and charitable efforts; he was president of the trustees of Central Union Church; a vice president of the Hawai'ian Evangelical Association; and a trustee of Punahou School. He was likewise a director of various business and banking concerns. Like his wife, Mary Emma Dillingham Frear, he was a writer; his best known works are two legal studies on the evolution of the Hawai;ian Judiciary and law. The Frears had to daughters, Virgina and Margaret. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in Part 14. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan34nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 19.0 Kb