Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 14. August 5, 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 12, 2008, 9:11 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands August 5, 2008 Contributed for Use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 5, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 14. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 14. Important People CHARLES FURNEAUX (1838 -1913 ) Born in Boston, Furneaux came to Hawai'i for a vacation around 1880 and loved Hawai'i so much, he decided to make his home in the Islands. For many years previous to annexation he was a United States consular agent and shipping commissioner at the port of Hilo. An intimate friend of the local painter Jules Tavernier, Furneaux became an artist of distinction. He was famous for his oils of the 1881 and 1887 Mauna Loa euptions, along with views of Kilauea and other volcanos. He invested considerable sums in coffee and banana plantations and owned sizeable properties on the Big Island. +++++++++++++++ WALTER MURRAY GIBSON ( 1822 -1888 ) Son of parents emigrating from Northumberland, England, to the United States, Gibson was orphaned at an early age and grew up in South Carolina. Afer many adventures in several parts of the world, Gibson became interested in the work of the Church of Latter-Day Saints or Mormons. He went to Salt Lake City and in 1860 became a missionary of the group. With the idea of converting many Pacific islanders to this religion and the blessing of Brigham Young, Gibson arrived in Honolulu on July 4, 1861, passing himself off as a world traveler. Thereafter he played a dramatic role in Hawai'i for twenty six years. The Morman convert began his labors among the native church members, whose former leader had returned to Utah three years earlier during the Mormon War. Gibson was especially concerned with the development of the island of Lana'i, where a small colony had grown up. An investigating committee of Mormon elders discovered that Gibson had diverted church funds toward the purchase of about half the island and put the property in his own name. Gibson was excommunicated by the Mormons in 1864, and became a naturalized citizen of Hawai'i in 1866. After cultivating land on Lana'i, he moved to Hawai'i in 1872 and entered politics. Under the slogan of " Hawai'i for Hawai'ians " he attached himself to the fortunes of King Kalakaua and began a career of corruption. He was a glib publicist in both English and Hawai'ian, and acquired control of the leading newspaper, the Pacific Commercial Adertiser. He was appointed premier and minister of foreign affairs in 1882 and thereafter was able to have his own way in the operation of the Kingdom. Gibson's dwnfall finally came when e picked up a idea first proposed by an Austrailian journalist, Charles St Julian, concerning the " primacy of the Pacific " ---- the idea that Hawai'i wold be first in the federation of governments of all the Polynesian island groups that had not yet been made colonies of European powers. Kalakaua would be Emperor of the Pacific. When this " calabash empire " collapsed, leaders of the Revolution of 1887 deposed Gibson and, one day before Kalakaua signed the "Bayonet Constitution," the former premier was alowed to leave the islands to escape lynching. Gibson spent his remaining years in San Francisco. At his death his body was embalmed and returned to Honolulu, where hordes of mourners came to pay their respects to this adventurer and dreamer. ++++++++++++++++++ VASILY MIKHAILOVICH GOLOVNIN ( 1776 - 1831 ) As Part of Russian expansion after the fall of Napolean I, Golovnin was sent out as captain of the round the world sloop Kamchatka to report on Russian activities in the North Pacific. He arrived in the Hawai'ian Islands in the fall of 1818 and visited the Big Island and O'ahu. His book gives a good account of Kamehameha 1 in his final year and political situation after the filerbustering expedition under Georg Anton Scheffer. ++++++++++++++++ JOSEPH GOODRICH (1794 -1852 ) Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, Goodrich was educated at Yale College and was ordained at Kailua, Hawai'i, in 1826, after arriving in the islands with the Second Company of American missionaries in 1823. He and his wife, Martha Barnes Goodrich, were parents of seven children. He and Samuel Ruggles established the station at Hilo, where he served until 1835. Twice, Goodrich was called back to Honolulu, each time for a period of two years, to superintend the printing office and book bindery. In addition to beng a preacher, teacher, and printer, he was also a good mechanic and agriculturist, showing the people how to grow coffee and food products. He returned with his family to the United States in 1836. +++++++++++++++ JOHN GORE (1730 -1790 ) Born in Virginia when it was a British colony, Gore had twice circled the globe on the fast ship Dolphin before signing on as third lieutenant on James Cook's first Pacific voyage. On the fateful third voyage, Gore was the first lieutenant of the flagship and brought the Resolution home to England after his captain was killed in Hawai'i. ++++++++++++++++ ROBERT GRAY (1775 -1806 ) The first American vessel to touch at the Hawai'ian Islands was the Columbia Rediviva, an armed ship from Boston commanded by Robert Gray, arriving in August, 1789. Gray went on to achieve the distinction of navigating the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe. In May, 1792, he discovered, entered, and named the Columbia River of the American Northwest. The Columbia returned to Hawai'i under the command of Gray in the summer of that year. +++++++++++++++ JONATHAN SMITH GREEN (1796 -1878) Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, Green graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary amd was ordained in 1827, shortly before sailing with the Third Company of American missionaries to Hawai'i. Before leaving he married Theodotia Arnold, by whom he was to have four children. After making an exploring trip along the Pacific Coast, Green was stationed at Lahaina, Mau'i, for a year, at Hilo for another year, and at Wailuku, Mau'i from 1832 to 1836. He was the first principal of the Wailuku Girls Seminary from 1836 to 1842. In the latter years the Greens left the Boston Mission for reasons of conscience concernning slavery and went to Makawao, Mau'i, where he was an independant pastor. He translated several books of the Bible into Hawai'ian along with a half of dozen tracts. After the death of his first wife, he married Asenath Cargill Spring at Providence, Rhode Island, in 1861 and brought her with him to Hawai'i in 1863. They had two children, one whom was Laura Capron Spring Green. ++++++++++++++++++ LAURA CAPRON SPRING GREEN ( 1864 -1943 ) Laura Green was born at Makawao, Mau'i, daughter of the Rev Jonathan Smith Green. In her early years she had a Hawai'ian nurse and " thought, read, and prayed in Hawa'ian." She was educated in New England. Laura worked with Mary Kawena Pukui in writing about island folklore, and both collaborated with Martha Beckwith. Green was author of three volumes of folklore based on the stories by Pukui and her husband. Green also was senior collaborator with Beckwith on seven articles on Hawai'ian customs. ++++++++++++++++++ DAVID LAWRENCE GREGG (1814 -1868 ) Gregg emigrated from Albany, New York, to Illinois at an early age, and began a political career which cultimated in the post of secretary of state for Illinois from 1850 to 1853. He was the United States Commissioner in Hawai'i from 1853 to 1858, when he was succeeded by James W. Borden. Gregg arrived at a time when annexation by the United States was first being discussed --- a proposal cut short by the death of King Kamehameha III in 1854. Later Gregg was minister of finance and adviser to Kamehameha IV, and then practiced law in Honolulu. he returned to the United States in 1863 and was appointed to a government post at Carson City, Nevada, where he died. Gregg's dispatches from Hawai'i to Washington are a valuable source of diplomatic history. ++++++++++++++++ HERBERT ERNEST GREGORY (1869 -1952 ) Born in Middleville, Michigan, Gregory obtained a bachelor's degree form Yale in 1896 and a doctorate in 1899. He was appointed Silliman Professor of Geology at Yale in 1904 and held that post for two decades. He also served the United States Geological Survey and worked in a number of countries. Gregory visited Honolulu in 1916 and became facinated by the problem of the origin of the Polynesian race. He arrived once more in May, 1919, to become director of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, a position he held until 1936. He published a number of papers on geology and geography. Gregory married Edna Hope in 1908 and he couple had one daughter. +++++++++++++++++ PETER JOHNSON GULICK (1796 -1877) Born in Freehold, New Jersey, Gulick graduated from Princeton College in 1825 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1827. He married Fannie Hinckley Thomas in September of that year and the couple sailed in November with the Third Company of American missionaries. They were stationed at Waimea, Kaua'i, from 1828 to 1835; at Kola from 1835 to 1843; at Kaluaaha from 1843 to 1846, where Gulick was superintedent of Moloka'i schools; and at Waialua, O'ahu, from 1846 to 1857. In that year the family retired to live in Honolulu. In 1874 the Gulicks could look back on a lifetime of bringing up six sons who were ordained missionaries and a daughter who was also involved in foreign missionary work. Prominent in the second generatin in Hawai'i were Luther Halsey Gulick ( 1828- 1891 ), medical missionary in the Caroline and Marquesas Islands, and Orramel Hinckley Gulick ( 1830 -1923 ), a pioneer Protestant missionary in Japan. +++++++++++++++++ TIMOTEO HAALILIO ( 1808 -1844 ) An early convert to Christianity who studied with the rev. Hiram Bingham, Haalilio learned to read and write in English and Hawaii'ian and became private secretary to Kamehameha III and a member of his treasury board. In 1842, Haalilio joined Rev William Richards as an envoy sent abroad in search of confirmation of the independence of the Kingdom. Haalilio studied social conditions and schools during his visits to Washington, London, and Paris, hoping to make use of his knowledge on his return to Hawai'i. Unfortunately, he died on shipboard en route to his native land. +++++++++++++++++++ HEINRICH HACKFIELD [ Henry ] (1815 -1887 ) Born near Palmenhorst in Oldenburg. Germany, Hackfield was captain of his own trading vessel on the China Coast before 1848, when he left the port of Hamburg for Hawai'i. He opened a shop in Honolulu in 1849 as a ship's chandler and general agent. He moved to a location on Fort Street that today is the site of his company's successor, Amfac's Liberty House. Hackfield developed a business of importing machinery and supplies for the spreading sugar plantations and exported raw sugar. H. Hackfield & Co. became prominent factors ---Agents and Shippers -- for plantations, especially when the Koloa and East Mau'i holdings headed by Dr. R. W. Wood began to succeed. Hackfield was appointed consul in Hawai'i for Germany, Norway, and Sweden in 1852. He was a charter member of the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce. he retired in 1861, but his concern thrived ad became one of the top companies in the islands; during World War I the assets of the German owned firm were liquidated and acquired by a new corporation, American Factors, Ltd ( later Amfac ), which became one of the so-called " Big Five." Hackfield returned to Germany in 1863 because of the illness of his wife, and severed his connection with the firm in 1886, a year before his death. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ to be continued in part 15. 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