Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 16. August 7, 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 7, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 7, 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 16. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 16 Important People - ROBERT ROBSON HIND (1832 -1901 ) Born in New Castle, England, Hind married Mary Urwin and with their first son, John, went to Vancouver, British Columbia, to work as an engineer. After about a year, he sought a warmer climate and came to the island of Hawai'i, were he installed some machinery at a sugar mill near Hilo. He sent for his family and thereafter began a career as a pioneer planter and rancher in the islands. he engaged in partnership on the island of Mau'i in 1869, and three years later joined forces with the grwing firm of S.T. Alexander and H.P. Baldwin. He then turned his attention to the development of the Kohala region of the Big Island, and set up the Hawi Mill & Plantation Co. Hind also held coffee and sugar interests at Kona. In 1884, he decided to retire to San Francisco and turn over the managment to his son John. He was survivied by his widow and six children, thus establishing a family whose achievements are still a part of Hawai'i's ranching and business history. The name of Aina Haina, an eastern suburb of Honolulu, means "Hind's Land"; it was named for Robert Hind, who started the Hind-Clarke Dairy there in 1924. +++++++++++++++ HARVY REXFORD HITCHCOCK (1800 -1855 ) Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Hitchcock graduated from Williams College and Auburn Theological Seminary, where he was ordained in1831. He married Rebecca Howard the smae year and sailed with the Fifth Comapany of American missionaries, which arrivedin Hawai'i in May. 1832. In November the couple established the first mission station on the island of Moloka'i, at Kaluaaha, where Hitchcock's first pulpit was the broken stump of a lauhala tree. He was released from the mission at his own request in 1851 and died in 1855, after a trip to the United States. His wife moved to Hilo and died there in 1890, leaving four children. A grandson was David Howard Hitchcock, and was one of the best known artists born in the islands and had grown up in Hilo. Born in 1861 and attended the Punahou School and Oberlin College, Ohio, and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Julienne Academy in Paris. He returned to the islands and married Hester Judd Dickson in Honolulu in 1898, and began producing much of his beat work, especially scenes of the volcano region of the Big Island. His paintings are contained in many collections in the United States, Germany, and England. He taught art classes a Punahou School and in 1894 founded the Kilohana Art League, serving twelve years as president. He also helped to bring the Boy Scout movemet to Hawai'i in 1919. The grandson David Howard Hitchcock, died in 1943. +++++++++++++++++ HOAPILI [ULUMAHEIHEI] ( 1776 -1840 ) Son of the royal twin Kameeiamoku and his wife Kealiiokahekili, he was renamed Hoapili because he was the close companion of Kamehameha I, entrusted with the task of conceiling the dead King's bones. He was the father of Liliha. Afte the death of Kamehameha, Hoapili married the sacred wife Keopuolani, who retained him as her sole husband when she abandoned polygamy. He assisted in 1819 in the overthrow of the old religion, and supported the work of the American missionaries. After Keopuolani died, Hoapili married Kalakua, daughter of Keeaumoku and Namahana, in a christian ceremony. This couple had a child, Kekauluohi ( Miriam Auhea ), who became the mother of King Lunalilo. Other children were Queen Kamamalu and Kinau. Hoapili was governor of Mau'i, Moloka'i, and Lana'i from 1836 to 1840. He made education for children compulsory on Mau'i, and sent Moo, his pipe lighter, to teach at Puna on Hawai'i. +++++++++++++++ THOMAS HOLMAN ( 1793 -1826 ) First medical missionary to Hawai'i ; Holman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and educated at Cherry Valley Medical School. New York. He spent the summer of 1819 at the Cornwall Mission School, Connecticut, before embarking in October on the Thaddeus as a member of the First Company to Hawai'i. The previous month he had married Lucia Ruggles, a sister of his fellow worker and shipmate Samuel Ruggles. After only four months in the islands, the Holmans had not adjusted to the spirit of the mission and he was excommunicated. The couple departed on a whale ship with their daughter ( later they had two sons ). The Mentor sailed via Canton, China, and the Cape of Good Hope to Boston. Lucia Holman is considered to be the first American woman to circumnavigate the globe. ++++++++++++++++++ OLIVER HOLMES [ HOMA ] (? -1825 ) Holmes, an early American settler in Hawai'i, was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He left New Bedford to trade in the Pacific and arrived in the islands in the Margaret in 1793. He was one of the first dozen foreigners to live in Hawai'i, and the only one to hve been in the service of Kalamikapule before joining that of Kamehameha I. It became quite fashionable for every chief of note to have one or two or more of these foreigners in his employ. They were not always the best speciums of their class but made themselves serviceable as interpreters and factors in trading with foreign ships and their skill and adroitness in managing firearms and in many other things hitherto unknown to Hawai'ians, made them valuable to the chiefs, who aided them to run away from their ships, or even kidnap them if other means failed. In return if these sailors could not be found when the ships left port, they were abandoned or a Hawai'ian would be enlisted to serve in the missing sailors place on board ship. After the victory of Kamehameha on O'ahu, Holmes married Mahi Kalanihooulumokuikekai, daughter of a high chief of Koolau who was killed in the battle of the Nuuanu Pali. Holmes was made a governor of O'ahu and supported the establishment of the Protestant mission in 1820. Although said to be a member of the prominent Holmes family of New England, Oliver was content to live in a grass roofed dwelling and his household was Hawai'ian in every way. He provisioned visiting ships and sojourning ship captains were his paying guests. The couple had a number of pretty daughters. Hannah married Captain William Heath Davis and later his partner, John Coffin Jones. ++++++++++++++++ WILLIAM NORTHEY HOOPER (1809 -1878 ) Born in Boston, Hooper speculated in Puerto Rico and the Dutch East Indies before becoming a partner with Peter Brinsmade and William Ladd in the firm of Ladd & Co., in 1835. Obtaining a 50 year lease on a tract of land on Kaua'i in 1835, the firm appointed Hooper as manager of Koloa Plantation, one of the first in the islands. He suffered heartbreaking troubles, especially in finding labor, and although Hooper replaced the fragile wooden rollers of the press with iron rollers, he produced in 1837 only two tons of sugar of poor quality. Twelve acres were cleared for cultivation with a plow drawn by forty Hawai'ian workers until the invention of a deep plow method by Samuel Burbank. Hooper left Koloa in 1839, married the sister of Dr. R.W. Wood the same year, and for a time was United States commercial agent and vice-consul, beginning in 1845. Later, he helped to establish San Francisco's first Chamber of Commerce. The Koloa Plantation was involved in the affairs of Brinsmade and the poitical problems of Ladd & Co., and was not successful until management was taken over by Dr. Wood. ++++++++++++++++++ MANLEY HOPKINS ( 1818-1897 ) Serving as Hawai'ian Consul in London from 1856 to 1896. Hopkins published " The Past, Present, and Future of its Island Kingdom " in 1862, although Manley never visted Hawai'i, but his brother Charles Gorden Hopkins, served in the island government for many years and furnished Manley with much material. Manley Hopkins was the father of the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. ++++++++++++++ THOMAS HOPU On board the Thaddeus when it arrived off the island of Hawai'i in 1820 were three young men of Hawai'ian birth who had attended the mission school at Cornwell, Connecticut. They were Thomas Hopu, John Honolii, and William Kanui ( a fourth Hawai'ian, George P. Kaumualii, was listed as a passenger on the ship ) An engraving of all four of them, taken from portraits painted by Professor Samuel F.B. Morse, had been sold for the benefit of the mission. Hopu had left the islands on the same ship that took Henry Opukahaia. Hopu shipped on several privateering expeditions in the War of 1812, was shipwrecked in the West Indies, and became a prisoner of the British. He returned to New Haven destitute, and there found his island friend Opukahaia. Converted to Christianity, Hopu walked sixty miles to find another Hawai'ian, Honolii, in order to convert him. Other Hawai'ians were sought to attend the school, among them William Kanui, who had reached Boston with his brother around 1809. They had both served on privateers but when the brother died, William went to New Haven to become a barber. Discovered by Yale College students, he also went to Cornwall. Aboard ship and later in the Islands, the three Hawai'ians gave invaluable aid as teachers of the language and translaters, and smoothed the way for the peaceful reception of the American mission during the first weeks. Hopu later was assistant to Rev. Asa Thurston at Kailua, Hawai'i, along with John Honolii, who died in 1838. Honolii served as a guide to David Douglas during an ascent of Mauna Kea in 1834. Hopu left to join the California gold rush with William Kanui; the Rev. S.C. Damon encountered both of them at Sacramento. Kanui, who had served in the United States Navy and seen action against the Tripoli pirates in the Mediterranean, lst hs gains fom the gold fields in a bank failure and drifted about California, teaching the bible and attending church. He lived for a while at Indian Creek, a colony of devout Hawai'ian gold seekers, before returning to Honolulu to teach school. He died in 1864. +++++++++++++++++ RALPH SHELDON HOSMER (1874 -1963) Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, Hosmer obtained a bachelor's degree at Harvard in 1894 and a master's degree at Yale. After working in the United States Department of Agriculure he became a superintendent of forestry for the Territory of Hawai'i from 1904 -1914. He planned many present forest reserve boundaries in the islands. He left in 1914 to become professor of forestry at Cornell University. +++++++++++++++ VICTOR STEUART KALEOALOHA HOUSTON ( 1876 -1959 ) Houston was born in San Francisco, son of Navel officer Edwin Samuel and Caroline Poor Kahikiola ( Brickwood ) Houston. The son graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1897 and retired as commander in 1926 after thirty two years in the Navy. He commanded the cruiser St Louis in World War I. He married Pinao G. Brickwood in 1910. Houston was territorial delegate to Congress from 1927 -1933. He was the first delegate to introduce an act enabling Hawai'i to become a state. He was later chairman of the Hawai'ian Homes Commission. An authority on Hawai'iana, Houston spoke the language and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lili'uokalani Trust. ++++++++++++++ JAMES HUNNEWELL ( 1794 - 1869 ) Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Hunnewell first arrived in the islands on the Bordeaux Packet in 1817 and left as a passenger on the Osprey. He came again as first officer of the Thaddeus in 1820 with the First Company of American missionaries. Later he arranged for the sale of both a brig and a schooner to the Hawai'ian government in exchange for a cargo of sandlewood. He traded between the West Coast and China for several years in command of the Missionary Packet, which he sailed from Boston around Cape Horn. He set up a pioneer merchantile business in Honolulu as early as 1817, but left the islands in 1830 with Henry A. Peirce in charge of his affairs. The firm later became controlled by Charles Brewer; thus Hunnewell was the progenitor of one of the " Big Five " factors. Hunnewell was also an author and wrote the story of the" voyage of the Missionary Packer " ++++++++++++++ CHARLES MCEWEN HYDE ( 1832 -1899 ) Born in New York City, Hyde graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1852 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1860. He was ordained in 1862 and the degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by Williams in 1872. After serving as pastor in Massachusetts, he arrived in Honolulu in 1877 with his wife, Mary T. Knight, whom he had married in 1865, and two sons. He was not a member of the Boston Board that was sent out of the twelve companies to the islands. Hyde reorganized the Theological School as the North Pacific Missionary Institute and served as its principal. He was secretary of the Board of the Hawai'ian Evangelical Association, supported the Chinese, Japenese, and Portuguese Mission Churches; was trustee of five educational trusts; and initiated the Social Science Club for intellectual discussions. Hyde held a role in the organization and development of the Kamehameha Schools, of which he was an early trustee, and was an active civic influenece. He translated hymns into Hawai'ian and left a valuable collection of Hawai'iana now in the library of the Hawai'ian Historical Society. Hyde is best known, perhaps, as the recipient of the " open letter " that was penned in haste to a slurr made by Hyde against the character of Father Damien, by Robert Louis Stevenson. +++++++++++++++++ CURTUS PIEHU IAUKEA ( 1855 -1940 ) A decendant of chiefs, Iaukea was born at Waimea, Hawai'i, son of J.W. and Lahapa Nalanipo Iaukea. The boy was reared in Honolulu under the direction of his uncle, Kaihupaa, an old time retainer of chiefs and a personal attendant upon King Kamehameha III. The nephew was educated at Iolani School under the Church of England. Sent to Hilo to learn the sugar business, Iaukea was found there by King Kalakaua on a royal tour and commanded to resume his place at the palace. Therefore, Iaukea was connected with the monarchy until its overthrow in 1893. In 1880, he was chief secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs, and three years later was a special envoy to the cornation of the Czar of Russia. He visited all the Courts of Europe and then went to India and Japan to study the problem of labor immigration; one result of his efforts was the admission of Japanese laborers to thePlantations of Hawai'i. Iaukea was collector general of customs in 1884 and chamberlain of the Kings' household. In the later office he took charge of the party attending the jubilee of Queen Victoria of England in 1887, which visited President and Mrs. Gover Cleveland en route. Ten years later Iaukea attended Victoria's Diamond Jubilee with the representative of the Republic of Hawai'i, and in the same year accompanied Presedent and Mrs. Sanford B. Dole to Washington, D.C. as secretary and military attache. Iaukea was sheriff of the County of O'ahu from 1906 to 1908 and served a term in the Territoral Senate from 1912. After 1909 he was managing trustee of the Lili'uokalani Trust and business representative for the former Queen. One of the most decorated men in Hawai'i ,he recieved half a dozen orders frm foreign governments for his protocol services. he was appointed secretary of the Territory in 1917 and often served as acting governor until his retirement from the post in 1921. He was chairman of the Hawai'ian Homes Commission from 1933 to 1935. In 1937 he became a menber of the Arcives Commissin and custodian of the throne room of Iolani Palace. In 1877 he married Charlotte K. Hanks and they had a son and daughter. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in part 17. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan37nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 16.8 Kb