Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 17. August 10, 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, 9:13 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands August 10, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 10, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 17. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 17 Important People -- JOHN PAPA Ii (1800 -1870) Son of a chief of Kona and his wife, the boy was born at Waipio, Ewa, O'ahu, and joined the royal court at the age of ten, where he became the companion of the future Kamehameha II. He took the name of " Papa " from his uncle, and the name of "Ii" from an exclamation by Prince Liholiho when he first saw his future friend. Ii was converted to Christianity soon after the arrival of the American missionaries, and then took the name of John. Ii accompanied the young king to the school of Hiram Bingham in 1820 amd later helped the missionaries in the translation of texts into Hawai'ian. Under Kamehameha III, Ii was appointed to the House of Nobles and the privy council, and from 1846 to 1852 was an associate justice of the Superior Court . He was appointed in 1846 to the Board of Commissioners to Quiet Land Titles under the second organic act and was the only Hawai'ian member to serve the entire term of the Board. He helped to draft the Constitution of 1852 and under the new Supreme Court served as a justice from that year until he resigned in 1864. Articles by Ii appearing in the newspaper Kuokea from 1866 to 1870 were collected and translated as valuable contributions to Hawai'ians. +++++++++++++++ YEMYO IMAMURA (1866-1932 ) Born in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, Imamura was trained as a Buddhist priest. He came to Hawai'i to serve as the second bisop of the Hawai'i Hongwanji Buddhist Mission, succeeding Hoju Tatsutani. He arrived with ten thousand volumes on Japanese culture, and sponsered the English language section of the Hongwanji Temple in order to present to the general public a non-sectarian form of Buddhism. He worked to increase greater understanding among the various ethnic groups in the islands. He retired after some thirty-six years as bishop, having added some thirty-six Mission temples built in rural O'ahu and on other islands. ++++++++++++++ JOSEPH INGRAHAM Ingraham first saw the Hawai'ian Islands as second mate of the Columbia in 1789, under Robert Gray, and returned twice as master of the Hope. This brigantine barely escped being captured by Kamehameha I. Ingraham wrote a journel, regarding his advenures of the brigatine " Hope . " These were published. ++++++++++++++ WILLIAM G. IRWIN (1843 -1914 ) Born in England, Irwin was brought to Hawai'i by his parents in early childhooh from San Francisco. The father was at one time secretary of the Foreign Office under the monarchy. William, one of the four childen, was educated at Panahou School and worked for several Honolulu firms before setting out for himself as head of the William G. Irwin & Co. In 1881 Irwin became the partner of Claus Spreckles, and the pair opened in 1885 the bank of Claus Spreckles & Co,. later, incorporated under the name of Bank of Honolulu, Ltd., and still later merged with the Bank of Bishop & Co. Irwin acquired large sugar plantation holdings and other properties in the islands. He married Mrs. Fannie Holiday in 1886 and their daughter, Helen Irwin, married Charles Templeton Crocker of Burlingame, California. A close friend of King Kamehameha, Irwin was a member of the privy council in 1887. He incorporated his estate in San Francisco in 1913 and became a power in California business affairs, assciated with the Mercantile National Bank of San Francisco in later years. ++++++++++++++++ HEINRICH PAUL FRIEDRICH ISENBERG ( 1837-1903 ) Paul Isenberg was born in Dransfeld, Germany, son of a Luthern minister. With experience on a farm, he went to Hawai'i and in the late 1850's was employed at Lihue Plantation as an overseer under William Harrison Rice. Isenberg married Rice's daughter, Hannah Maria in 1861, and on the death of his employer became manager of Lihue in May, 1862. two children were born, Dora and Paul, who at the time were the only white children in Lihue. Mrs. Isenberg died in 1867 and two years later Paul Isenberg married Beta Glade in Germany. Of this couple, six children were born. On his return from Europe, Isenberg began to develop the plantation heavily, and in the late 1870's he also aquired an interest in Koloa Plantation. He retired from Lihue in 187, having acquired a considerable fortune, In 1881 he was invited to obtain a half-share partnership with Captain Heinrich Hackfield, and the firm developed into one of the " Big Five " as American Factors, Ltd. ( Amfac). Paul Isenberg was a friend of the native Hawai'ian people and a welcome visitor at court, and he helped to prevent trouble over the proposed Constitution of 1887. For his service in the legislature, King Kalakaua decorated him with the Order of Kamehameha. He moved his family in 1878 to Germany, where his first daughter Dora married in 1883, a first cousin, the Rev. Hans Isenberg. ++++++++++++++++ WILLIAM PAUL JARRETT ( 1877-1929) Jarrett was born in Honolulu of an old and distinquished family and was educated at St.Louis College. He was deputy sheriff of the City ad County of Honolulu for one term of two years, Sheriff for three terms, and high sheriff of the Territory fro, 1914 to 1922. As warden for O'ahu Prison during eight years he was noted for his reforms and his concern for his people As a leader in the Democrat Party and winner of national recognition for his prison work, he was territorial deligate to congress from 1923 to 1927. From 1926 until his death Jarrett was superintendant of the Lunalilo Home, an institution for aged Hawai'ians. In 1907 he married Mary H.K. Clark and the couple had four children; his wife died in 1920 and he thn married Mrs.Elizabeth Neal. +++++++++++++++++ JAMES JACKSON JARVES (1818 -1888) One of the first to write a history of Hawai'i in English, Jarves was born in Boston; he was also a planter, merchant, editor, sketch writer, and the author of the first novel with a Hawai'ian setting. He came to Hawai'i at the age of nineteen, and returned to Boston the same year, to marry his childhood sweetheart and bring her to Hawai'i to share his life. Jarves founded the weekly Polynesian in1840; it was re-established in 1844 as the official publication of the Hawai'ian government. He left Hawai'i for the last time in 1848, but in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 1849, he signed, as special commissioner, a treaty that recognized the independence of the Hawai'ian kingdom. +++++++++++++++++ JOHN COFFIN JONES (1796 -1861 ) Jones, only son of a leading Boston merchant, left Harvard University to serve in the sandalwood trade under Captain Dixey Wildes. Jones arrived in Honolulu in 1821 as United States consular agent and representative of the Boston trading firm of Marshall & WIldes. He immediately collided with the missionary group led by Rev. Hiram Bingham and for the next two decades he contended for commercial advantages to the neglect of native Hawai'ian concerns. He set up his own trading firm in 1830 and made many voyages to California dring the next ten years. The opposition of the Protestant mission finally succeeded in bringing about his dismissal from the State Department office in 1839. Jone's several marriages were also held against him. He took to wife in 1823 Hannah Jones Davis, widow of his partner, William Heath Davis Sr. His younger stepson, William Heath Davis, Jr., became a prominent California businessman. Jones continued to live with Hannah but also lived with Lihilahi Marin, daughter of Don Fransico Marin, and had children by both. He formally married in 1838 Manuela Carrillo of Santa Barbara, California and deserted Hanah and Lahilahi. Jones settled in Santa Barbara in 1839 an continued as a merchant both in California and Massachusetts. He died on Christmas Eve, 1861, leaving a goodly estate to his wife an six children. The service of Jones as consular agent in Honolulu embroiled him in a number of commercial and political causes. Both as government representative and private trader during a formative period, he was an energetic figure and is credited with leadership in opening trade between Hawai'i and Spanish California. On a visit to Hawai'i in 1843, Jones authorized Stephen Reynolds to present a bill against the royal treasury for principal and interest on an unpaid note signed by the chiefs in 1829. This was the basis for visits to Hawai'i by American gunboats and was the origin of the national debt. ++++++++++++++ PETER CUSHMAN JONES ( 1837 -1922 ) Born in Boston of an old New England stock, Jones attended Boston Latin School and prepared to enter Harvard University, but the lure of business made him take a job as office boy at a salary of $50 a year. Seeking adventure, he followed many other New Englander to the Hawai'i frontier and worked for several companies before becoming a partner with C.L. Richards in a ship chandlery. Jones became a partner in C. Brewer and Co in 1871 and became president in 1883, a position he held until 1891; he returned to the company a year later and served until 1899, when he was succeeded by Charles M. Cooke.With his son Edwin Austin Jones, he formed a concern in 1892 that became later the Hawai'ian Trust Co. Of strongly religious turn of mind, Jones served for years on church boards and built the Palama Chapel, out of which grew the Palama Settlement, an early social center. For twenty years he was the treasurer of Punahou School. He was an advisor to the crown and in 1892 was appointed minister of finance to Queen Lili'uokalani. He decided, however, that the best interests of the islands would be served by an overthrow of the monarchy, and he was one of the most influential leaders in the Revolution of 1893. In 1862 he married Cornelia Hall, daughter of E.O. Hall, and the couple had three children. ++++++++++++++ THOMAS AP CATESBY JONES (1769 -1858 ) Born in Boston, son of an Army Major, Jones entered the United States Navy in 1805 and began a lifetime career of distinction. In the spring of 1826, Captain John Percival and the armed schooner Dolphin spent three months in Hawai'i the first American warship to visit Hawai'i. In the autumn, a second vessel spent tree months in the islands, with more lasting results. Captain Jones of the peacock obtained a renewal pledge of payment of the debts piled up by the ruling chiefs; to raise the money the earliest written tax law was passed on December 27, 1826, requiring able-bodied Hawai'ians to deliver payment in sandlewood or Spanish dollars. Jones also made, on behalf of the United States government, certain "articles of arraingement" that formed a rough treaty providing for peace between the Americans and Hawai'ians, and for the protection of American interests. This first treaty between Hawai'i and foreign country was never ratified in Washington but was respected for many years, and Jones earned the sobriquent of " the kind-eyed chief." Jones returned to islands in 1843 in command of the U.S.S United States, aboard which Herman Melville left Hawai'i. +++++++++++++++++ ALBERT FRANCIS JUDD (1838 -1900 ) Son of Gerrit P. Judd, Albert was born in Honolulu. He studied at Punahou School, obtained a bachelor's degree from Yale in 1862, and earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1864. He returned to practice in Hawai'i, served several terms in the legislature beginning in 1868, and in 1873 was named attorney general under King Lunalilo. He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court in 1874 and served as chief Justice from 1881, presiding not only during the reigns of Kalakaua and Lili'uokalani, but also under the Republic of Hawai'i. He was second president of the Hawai'ian Board of Missions from 1883 to 1900. He married Agnes Hall Boyd in 1872 and was the father of nine children. including Albert Francis Judd II, James Robert Judd, Henry Pratt Judd, Charles Sheldon Judd, and Lawrence McCully Judd. ++++++++++++++++++ CHARLES SHELDON JUDD (1881 -1939 ) Born in Honolulu, son of Albert Francis Judd, Charles attended Punahou School and graduated from Yale University in 1905; he obtained a master's degree in Forestry from Yale in 1907. After several years in the United States Forestry Service, he was appointed land commissioner for the Territory of Hawai'i in 1911 and acted for eight months before retuning to federal sevice. In January 1915, he returned to the islands and became superintendent of forestry and chief fire warden, Board of Agriculture and Forestry. In 1927, he was given the title of Territorial forester, which he retained until his death . He increased the ranger force greatly, added 183,000 acres to the area of forest reserves , and planted millions of trees in the denuded areas. Judd accompanied the Bernice P. Bishop Expedition to Nihoa and Necker Islands in 1923 and took part in the Mauna Kea expedition of 1935. He was a member of many professional and social groups. e married Louise Luquiens in 1910 and they had two children, Emma and Charles sheldon Judd, Jr. ++++++++++++++++ GERRIT PARMELE JUDD ( 1803 -1873 ) The medical missionary and adviser to the Hawai'ian throne was born in Paris, New York. At the age of twenty-three, he earned a medical degree from a school at Fairfield, New York. With his wife, Laura Fish Judd, he arrived in Hawai'i with the Third Company of American missionaries in 1828. He was a busy doctor in the community even after he left the mission in 1842 to become a leading counselor to Kamehameha III. He was made secretary of state for foreign affairs in 1845. He built a large home and with his wife reared no fewer than nine children, including Albert Francis Judd. Judd's courage was shown in 1843 when he quietly resisted the demands of Lord George Paulet. Judd resiigned on may 10, as the Kng's deputy minister and secretly removed the public papers to the Royal Mausoleum in the palace grounds to prevent them from being taken by the British naval officers. Using the coffin of Kaahumanu as a writing desk, Dr. Judd prepared appeals to London and to Washington to free Hawai'i from the illegal rule of Paulet. As one result, Admiral Richard Thomas arrived on July 26, to restore the kingdom to Kamehameha III. Judd was chosen in 1849 to head a group going to France to obtain better relations. During his travels he took with him two young princes who were to become Kamehameha IV and Kamehameha V, and the party also visited Great Britain and the United States. Fear of American filibusters in 1851, made worse by a bad smallpox epidemic that was blamed on foreign residents, resulted in the king's decision not to reappoint Dr. Judd a minister of finance, although he had served on a committee the previous year to write the Constitution of 1852. +++++++++++++++ HENRY PRATT JUDD ( 1880 - 1955 ) Widely known as a clergyman and teacher of the Hawai'ian language, Judd was born at Rensselaer, New Yok, son of Agnes and Albert Francis Judd. Henry graduated from Punahou School in 1897, from Yale in 1901, and from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1906. He worked with the Hawai'ian Board of Missions from 1908 to 1935, and thereafter fr ten years as a professor of Hawai'ian at the University of Hawai'i. He was pasto of several churches and chaplain of both houses of the Territorial Legislature. In later years he continued to teach Hawai'ian. He was the author of a textbook on the language and a co-author of an English-Hawai'ian dictionary. He was a member of various professional and civic groups. ++++++++++++++++ LAURA FISH JUDD ( 1804 -1872 ) Laura Fish Judd bore her husband Gerrit Parmele Judd, nine children. She taught school and was a friend of Queen Kaahumanu. Laura Judd's diary includes dozens of views of life in Hawai'i from 1828 to 1861. ++++++++++++++++ LAURENCE McCULLEY JUDD ( 1887 -1968 ) Born in Honolulu, son of Albert Francis Judd and grandson of Dr. Gerrit P. Judd, Laurence graduated from Punahou School in 1905 and in 1909 attended the University of Pennsylvania. He married Florence Hacett in 1909 and they had four children. Judd held several postions in mainland firms before returning to Honolulu in 1914 to work for Theo H. Davies & Co., Ltd. He enlisted at the outbreak of World War I and made a noteworthy military record; by 1920 he was colonel in command of all the troops of the Hawai'ian National Guard. He became a director of several leading commercial firms and supported education; he was a trustee of Palama Settlement and a warden of St. Andrew's Cathedral. Judd was elected to the Terrtorial Senate from 1920 to 1928 and was president in 1923. While on the Board of Supervisors of O'ahu County he was named seventh governor of the Territory by President Herbert Hoover and served from 1929 to 1934. Soon after he took office, the depression began and it was his unpleasant duty to initiate drastic cuts in salaries and other spending. However, the government did carry out major public-works programs in parks and playgrounds, and the Waikiki Natatorium was built as a war memorial. Perhaps the most dramatic act of Judd as governor was to commute the ten-year prison sentence of Thomas Massie and his co-defendants to one hour in his custody, tus adverting in 1931 the possibility that the territory might be subject to a carpetbagger regime. Previous to the Massie case, Judd in 1930 had set up a crime commission which made some recomendations simular to those made after the case had aroused wide comment, and additional correctiv measures were passed by the legislature in 1932 and 1933. Judd spoke in favor of statehood for Hawai'i and of an increased military presence in the islands previous to America's entry into World War II. he was head of the Civil Defense program in 1942 and city rent control administrator in 1944. As superintendent of Kalaupapa Settlement on Moloka'i, he was instrumental in legally relaxing the segregation of patients with arrested cases of leprosy. Later he was director of hospitals and settlements. He was president of the Hawai'i' Residents' Association ( Imua ), a conservative group, from 1951 to 1955. He was appointed governor of American Samoa on 1953, the only man to be governor of two American territories. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To be continued in part 18. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan38nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 19.4 Kb