Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 15. August 6, 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, 9:12 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands August 6, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374. August 6, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People -- Part 15. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 15. Important People -- EDWIN OSCAR HALL (1810 -1883 ) Born at Walpole, New Hampshire, Edwin Hall was educated at Canandaigua Academy, New York, and trained for the printing trade at Detroit and New York City. He married Sarah Lyon Williams in 1834, a month before leaving with the Seventh Company of American missionaries to Hawai'i. On arrival in 1835, the couple was stationed in Honolulu. They were to have four children. On a visit to Oregon Territory in 1839, for the sake of his wife's health, Hall took as a gift from the First Church of Honolulu to the pioneer Oregon mission, a hand card printing press, type,and paper. There Hall ran off the first printing from the Pacific Northwest. It was an eight page primer in the Nez Perce language written by a missionary at Lapwai in what is now the state of Idaho. On his return, Hall was appointed director of the official press of the Kingdom and editor of the Polynesian, a governmant newspaper. Hall was released from the Boston mission in 1850 to head he Department of Finance of the Kingdom in the absence of Dr. G. P. Judd in 1849 and 1850. Hall left the government service in 1855 to set up a mercantile business, the firm of E.O. Hall & Son, which operated until it was absorbed by Theo. H. Davies., Ltd., in 1873. In that year Hall was appointed Minister of the Interior and president of the Board of Health. On the death of his first wife, he married Mary Lyon Dame in 1878 in Pennsylvania. Hall died in Falmouth, Maine, but was buried in Honolulu. ++++++++++++++++++ JOHN WAYNE HALL [JACK] (1915 -1971) Born in Ashland, Wisconsin, Hall grew up in Southern California and at seventeen became a merchant seaman. He joined the Sailor's Union of the Pacific the following year, and in 1934 took part in a ninty-day strike on the San Francisco waterfront, in which were deployed tear gas and Army tanks. The strikers won pay increases. He began his career in Hawai'i by helping to organize the Honolulu waterfront in 1935. He was involved in a longshoreman's strike on Kaua'i and began organizing sugar and pineapple workers for the International Longshoreman's & Warehousemen;s Union (ILWU). By 1942 he had organized two Kaua'i plantations ad had helped to get the first stevedoring contracts signed. He then drafted what became the Territory's first wage and hour law and acted as an inspecter for the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. He married Yoshiko Ogawa of Olaa, Hawai'i, in 1942. Hall served on the Hawai'i War Labor Board and the Hawai'i War Manpower Commission. He was named Hawai'i regional director of the ILWU in 1944, and served until 1969. with much assistance from Harry Renton Bridges, President in San Francisco. Under Hall's direction this union competed with American Federation of Labor (AFL) organizers for worker members on Plantations. In 1946 Hall was chairman of the local Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) Political Action Committee, which backed thirty five successful candidates in that years' elections in Hawai'i. Hall lead the ILWU in the bitter six month Honolulu waterfront strike of 1949, which bankrupted many small busnessmen and brought about food shortages and occasioned strong protests especially from housewives. In 1953, Hall was convicted, along with six other defendants, of violations of the anti-Communist Smith Act, but the conviction was overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 1958. During the 1950's, supported by Democrat Party under the leadership of John Anthony Burns, Hall supported mechanization of local industries and negotiated contracts providing separation pay, higher pensions, improved medical plans, and job retraining for laid-off workers.He also served on the Honolulu Police Commission, the Aloha United Fund, and the Waikiki Improvement Association, and as director of the Community Chest and the National Housing Conference. He was vice-president and director of the ILWU on the West Coast in 1969 and died two years later in San Francisco. ++++++++++++++++++ THOMAS HALE HAMILTON (1914 -1979 ) Born in Marion, Indiana, Hamilton obtained a bachelor's degree from DePauw University in 1936, a master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1940, and a doctorate from Chicago in 1947. He married Virginia Prindiville in 1940 and the couple had a son and a daughter. After teaching political science at several mainland universities, he was named in 1959 President of the State University of New York, heading a system of fifty four campuses. Hamilton was appointed President of the University of Hawai'i in 1963, following the retirement of Lawrence Hasbrouck Snyder. Hamilton led in the establishment of academic chairs, took part in the creation of the community college system, expanded science programs, and initiated new graduate dergrees. When he assumed the presidency the statewide enrollment came to about 9,500 students; when he resigned the total approached 30,000. Grants to support the university were running at about five millon dollars annually; they totaled sixty-four million when he was in office. Hamilton resigned suddenly on December 23, 1967, when a faculty senate hearing committee protested his revocation of tenure of Oliver Lee, an assistant profesor of political science. From 1868-1971, Hamilton was president of the Hawai'i Visitors Bureau and then became a special adviser to the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, at a time when this campus-based institution expanded into statewide programs for the youth of Hawai'i. Hamiton was a popular public speaker and his comments were always touched with humor. Hamilton Library on the Manoa campus bears his name. +++++++++++++++++ WILLOWDEAN CHATTERSON HANDY (1889-1965 ) Born in Loiusville, Kentucky, Willowdean Chatterson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1909 and studied for two years at Radcliffe Graduate School. She was married on September 21, 1918, to E.S. Craighill Handy and was an associate in polynesian folkways at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum from 1920 to 1930. Accompanying her husband on a expedition to the Marquesas Islands, she drafted a record tatoo designs of the natives, living examples of this ancient art. Mrs Handy was a research analyst for the United States Office of Stategic Services during World War II and a librarian of the Hawai'ian Historical Society fron 1950 to 1962. She was a regent of the University of Hawai'i from 1943 to 1947 and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Association of University Women. She was honorary life president of the Honolulu Branch of the Pan Pacific and Southwest Asia Woman's Association. ++++++++++++++ CHARLES COFFIN HARRIS (1822-1881 ) Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Harris was educated at a school founded by his father in that town and graduated from Harvard University in 1841. He studied law and taught school before heading to the California Gold fields, making a few dollars he then joined his brothers in an operation of a schooner. He came to Hawai'i in 1850 to practice law and was appointed police magistrate in 1851 and studied Hawai'ian. Under Kamehameha V, he became advocate general and then Hawai'i's first attorney general. a post created under the constitution of 1864 that Harris had framed. During the next eight years he was minister of finance and foreign affairs, He left office because he had promoted the construction of the expensive Hawai'ian Hotel downtown, but returned to service under Kalakaua. Harris was appointed vice chancellor and first associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1874; 1876 and served util the year o hs death. Harrie was one of the first communicants of the Episcopal Church in Honolulu. +++++++++++++++++ FRITZ HART (1874 -1949 ) Born in London, Hart was a composer and conductor of orchestras before becoming director of the Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne, Australia, in 1912. From 1931 to 1936 he acted as a conductor for the symphony orchestras in both Melbourne and Honolulu., since their seasons did not overlap; thereafter he worked only in Honolulu. For fifteen years he lectured a week previous to a concert program. Hart also taught at the University of Hawai'i for several years. During World War II he gave choral concerts at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. His compositions include chamber music, orchestra and choral works, more than four hundred songs, and twenty opera scores. +++++++++++++++ ALFRED STEDMAN HARTWELL (1836-1912 ) Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Hartwell attended publc schools of that state; he earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1858 and a law degree in 1867. He enlisted in the Massachusetts Militia in 1861 and had an outstanding career in the Union Army as an officer in black regiments, and was brevetted as brigadier general in action. Hartwell was recommended to Kamehameha V as an attorney to undertake the task of codifying the laws of the kingdom. The lawyer arrived in 1868 and served as first associate justice of the Supreme Court, When Kalakaua was elected, Hartwell acted as attorney gneral and played a large role in 1876 treaty with the United States and the annexation proceedings in 1898. He was special agent for the Republic in 1899 an 1900 in Washingon D.C. , where he remained the following year to work on te establishment of a cable connection between the islands and the mainland. As Supreme Court associate justice of the Territory, 1904, and chief justice 1907-1911, he handed down some notable decisions. Hartwell owned shares in several sugar plantations and at one time a representative of Claus Spreckles. Hartwell married Charlotte Elizabeth Smith of Koloa, Kaua'i. +++++++++++++++ WILLIAM HAEHAE HEEN (1883-1973 ) Born in Olowalu, Mau'i, Heen was educated at Iolani School, Punahou School, and Hastings Law School in San Francisco (1902-1904 ). He was admitted to the bar of the territory in 1905. He married Mercy K. Akua in 1911 and the couple had five children. Heen served sucessively as deputy county attorney. Hawai'i County, 1910-1915; the deputy attorney general of the territory, 1915-1919; third judge of First Circuit, Hawai'i County, 1917 -1919; and attorney of the city and County of Honolulu, 1919-1925. He was a senator in the Legislature from 1926-1957 and the first Democrat to be president of the Senate. He lost the bid for the Democart nominaton for United States Senate to Frank Fasi in 1959. Heen founded in 1925 the law firm of Heen & Kai ( later Heen, Kai, & Dodge.), and was president of Heen Estates, Ltd. He was co-founder with Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole of the Hawai'ian Civic Club and served as its first president in 1917. During the 1930's, Heen represented the first local defendants in the case of Thalia Massie. He was director of several business concerns and was awarded the Order of the Splintered Paddle by the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce in 1962. +++++++++++++++ CHARLES REED HEMENWAY (1875 -1947 ) Born in Manchester, Vermont, Hemenway earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and studied law in New York City for two years. He married Jane Munson Colburn in 1901. He arrived in the islands in 1899 to teach at Punahou School and to practice law. He was appointed Attorney general of the territory in 1907 and served for more tan two years Hemenway entered business in 1915 as a director of the " Big Five" firm of Alexander & Baldwin and from 1922 to 1938 he was vice president and assistant general manager. He was also president of Hawai'ian Trust Co., from 1937 to 1945 and a director of half a dozen other enterprises. He is best known as a regent of the College of Hawai'i ( later the University of Hawai'i ) from 1910 to 1940; Hemenway Hall on the Manoa campus bears his name. +++++++++++++++++ THEODORE C. HEUCK ( 1830 -1877 ) Born in Hamburg, Germany, Heuck was trained as an architect, engineer, and carpenter. He arrived in Hawai'i from Australia in 1850 and during a decade was in business with Herman J.F. Von Holt. Heuck's first important work as Hawai'i's first professional architect was the construction of the Queen's Hospital. While serving in the legislature of the kingdom from 1864 to 1867, Heuck designed the Royal Mausoleum and supervised its construction, as well as additions to the prison, custom's house, and Queen's Hospital. Iolani Barracks, later moved and rebuilt, was designed by Heuck in 1866 but not completed until 1871. Heuck was a trustee of Queen's Hospital and Secretary of the Board of Health. He also served as consul for the Kingdom of Prussia, for the North German Confederation, and for Denmark. He left Honolulu in 1874 after being created a Knight of the Order of Kameameha I, and died in his native Hamburg. +++++++++++++++++ HEWAHEWA ( ? - 1837 ) The last high priest under the kapu system. Hewahewa was a linal descendant of Paao and served as kahuna for both Kamehameha I and Kamehamheha II. Along with the latter and queen regent Kaahumanu, the priest overthrew the ancient system and helped to burn more than a hundred pagan idols. When the first American missionaries arrived at Kailua, Hawai'i in April 1820, Hewahewa on being introduced to the Rev. Hiram Bingham, " expressed much satisfaction in meeting with a brother priest from America." Hewahewa later became a devout Christian and attended the church of the Rev. John S. Emerson at Waialua, O'ahu. He wrote a christian prayer antedating the use of the Lord's Prayer in the islands. He was associated with Anthony Allen in operating a farm on the road to Waikiki. ++++++++++++++++ WILLIAM HILLEBRAND (1821- 1886 ) This Prussian medical man arrived in Hawai'i in 1851 and opened a practice. He married Anna Post in 1852. He was named head physician in 1860 of the new hospital named for Queen Emma and stayed on its staff until he left the islands in 1871. He was an expert botanist, and for many years his book (1888) was the only solid source of Hawai'ian flora. The Foster Gardens in Honolulu are on the site of his former home, where he experimented with bringing in new plants, birds, and animals. Dr. Hillebrand was a member of the privy council of Kamehameha V. He was sent in 1865 by the Bureau of Immigration to China to arrange that laborers from that country be sent to Hawai'i to work in the fields. The Bureau later followed Hillebrand's suggestion that a group of workers from tha Maderia Islands also be shipped to Hawai'i and this was also the beginning of the immigration of Poruguese laborers to the islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in part 16. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan36nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 15.8 Kb