Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 25. September 13, 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 September 24, 2008, 4:06 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands September 13, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 September 13, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - part 25. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 25 Important People -- BARBARA KOPP [ Mother Marianne ] 1836 -1918 In 1862, Barbara Kopp became a novice in the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse, New York. She became a teacher at Assumption School in that city and at St. Peter's School in Oswego. She returned to Syracuse to take charge of St.Joseph's Hospital. When six nuns answered the call to serve at the leper settlement on the island of Moloka'i, Mother Marianne, as she was known, accompanied them to Hawai'i in 1883. Pemission to work on Moloka'i was delayed for five years, and they worked at the Kakaako Brach Hospital before being allowed to go to the settlement in 1888, to assist the failing Father Damein and supplement the labors of Brother Joseph Dutton. Under the guidance of Mother Marrianne who continued to work at the colony throughout the remainder of her life, a home for girls was built and hospital care was given to the sufferers. ++++++++++++++ OTTO VON KOTZEBUE 1787 -1846 A Baltic German and Russian subject, Otto was the son of a famed German playwright. The son devoted the best ears of his life to service in the Russian Imperial Navy. He first visited Hawai'i in 1804 on the Nadeshda, a round the world vessel commanded by his Uncle, Adam Johann von Krusenstern. In command of his own ship, Rurik, Kotzebue arrived from California off the island of Hawai'i in November, 1816. On the staff of the captain were three scientific gentlemen, Adelbert von Chamisso, botanist; Johann Friedrick Eschschiltz, naturalist; and Ludwig ( Louis ) Choris. The Rurik arrived during the filibustering exploits of georg Anton Scheffer, about which Kotzebue knew nothing, and at first Kamehameha I mistook his ship for an invading vessel of war. On November 2 the captain and his gentlemen were regally received before sailing off to visit Honolulu. A translation of his account of the voyage appeared in three volumns under the title of " A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Bering's Straits. On his third visit, Captain Kotzebue arrived in Honolulu late in 1824, in command of the Predpiyatie. On this circumnavigation the Russians explored a number of Pacific groups. Kotzebue was recieved inHawai'i by former acquaintances such as Kinau and the queen dowager Namahana. He felt that the pious atmosphere of post-missionary Hawai'i had killed the former liveliness of the island people. His account of the voyage is found in a two volumne translation, " A New Voyage Round the World. As a son of his father, Otto was a graphic writer and his notes on Hawai'ian life are well worth study. ++++++++++++ ADAM JOHANN VON KRUSENSTERN 1770-1846 This Russian navigator was the first from his country to visit Hawai'i, on a round the world cruise from 1803 to 1806. Its purpose was to stimulate the Pacific fur trade and to revive relations with China and Japan. He arrived in June, 1804, in command of the Nadeshda; his consort was the Neva under Urey Lisiansky. Krusenstein soon left for Alaska, but the Neva visited Kealakekua Bay and Kaua'i, where Lisiansky met the young King Kaumualii. More than a year later, when the Neva was on its way to Canton with a cargo of furs, it grounded on a shoal near Midway Island; a nearby islet still bears the name Lisiansky. The Neva was again seen in the islands in 1809, commanded by Leonth Andreanovich Hagemeister. +++++++++++++ KUAKINI [ John Adams ] 1791-1844 Youngest son of Keeaumoku and Namahana and brother of Kaahumanu, he was also known as Kuakiniokalani or Kuakiniikonahale. He was a high chief and governor of the island of Hawai'i from 1820 to his death. He was one of the first chiefs to read and write English and Hawai'ian. He became acting governor of Oahu in 1831 and was a diligent supporter of missionary ideals. He had a wagon road built from Waimea to Kawaihae on the Kona cost by a labor force comprised of men sentenced for breaking the seventh commandmant. Kuakini built a fort at a site near the official temple of Kamehameha I and armed it with cannon. He also built many schools and a large meetinghouse near the mission at Waimea, Hawai'i. He conceived in 1835 an attempt to grow cotton and set up a textile industry on that island, and two years later had a spreading field of cotton at Waimea and a factory that produced and wove yarn, but the projected industry came to nothing. +++++++++++++ KUALII One of the last chiefs, Kualii was a decendant of Pinea, wife of Liloa. He is said to have subjugated first his own island of O'ahu and later the other Hawa'ian Islands. One report states he died in 1730 at the age of 175. He was succeeded by his son Peleioholani. +++++++++++ LAANUI The husband of Kekuaipiaa, he escaped at the death of Keoua Kuahuula at Kawaihae in 1791 by jumping overboard secretly. He joined Kaahumanu in taking part in communion at Kawaiahao Church in 1825 for the first time. ++++++++++++++ JOHN LA FARGE 1835-1910 A painter and writer, La Frage in 1890 and 1891 traveled in company with Henry Adams and made a number of sketches of the islands. +++++++++++++ THOMAS LAFON Born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, Lafon studied medicine at Transylvania University and was ordained as a minister at Marion College, Missouri, in 1835. He married Sophia Louisa Parker in 1836 ad the couple arrived in Hawai'i with the Eighth Company of American missionaries in 1837. They were stationed at Koloa, Kaua'i, where he acted not only as physician but also as minister and teacher. He resigned from the Boston mission because of an almost fanatical devotion to the abolitan of slavery, and the couple left the islands in 1842. After his wife's death in 1844, Dr.Lafon married Ruth Ann Atwell Tweedy in 1846 and they had three children. +++++++++++ JOHN CAREY LANE 1872-1958 Born at Makao, O'ahu, lane was educated at Hauula School and St. Louis College. he held various jobs as a clerk, and from 1893 to 1900 farmed near Honolulu. he married Alice Kalakini in 1909. Lane was a member of the territorial senate from 1905 to 1907 and introduced the bill establishing the City and County of Honolulu. He failed to win the post of mayor in 1908 and 1910, but was elected by an overwelming majority in 1914. He was defeated in his bid for re-election i 1917. Appointed high sheriff of the territory and warden of O'ahu Prison in 1922, he resigned in 1932 during charges of lax administration and because of ramifications of the case of Thomas Massie. ++++++++++++++ JEAN FRANCOIS DE GALAUP LA PEROUSE 1741-1788 The Count de la Perouse was the msot celebrated French navigator of the eighteenth century. He entered the French Navy as a royal cadet in 1756 and spent most of his life at sea. He was chosen in 1785 to head an expedition into the Pacific that King Louis XVI hoped would rival those of Captain James Cook. The Count commanded two five-hundred ton armed frigates, Boussole and Astrolabe, which sailed from Brest in August, 1785. The ships entered the Pacific the following January and touched Easter Island before reaching Hawai'i. These French crews were the first Europeans to go ashore on the island of Mau'i, which Cook had sighted on November 26, 1778. A ceremonious landing was made on May 30, 1786, at the spot now called La Perouse Bay. But the commander judged that takng possession of the island for its French Empire would not be a humane act. After exploring the American coast from Alaska down to California, the ships were again in Hawai'ian waters. Necker Island was named by La Perouse after the French statesman. The ships were almost wrecked on French Frigate Shoal, whose name commemorates the event. After many other adventures in the Pacific, the ships left Port Jackson, Australia, on January 26, 1788, and thereafter disappeared from History for forty years. The mystery of their fate was solved by Captain Peter Dillon, an Irish adventurer. The two vessels had foundered in a storm off the island of Vanicoro, in the Santa Cruz group by a hurricane. +++++++++++ CYRILLE-PIERRE-THEODORE LAPLACE. Captain Laplace arrived off Honolulu on July 9, 1839, in command of the French frigate L'Armemise, with orders from Paris to teach the people of Hawai'i a salutary lesson. Having consulted only with James Dudoit, he submitted to King Kamehameha III a " Manifesto " that included five demands concerning Catholic worship in the islands. The sum of $20,000 had to be deposited with Laplace to guarentee that the treaty would be carried out. War would instantly follow if the demands were refused. The King was at Lahaina but the treaty was signed on the 12th on his behalf ad the money, raised from local merchants, was paid. Not satisfied, Laplace paraded his forces under arms at a military mass ashore and then forced the King on July 17 to sign an additional convention giving special privileges to French residents and French imports, particularly, wines and brandies. These acts put Great Britain and the United States at a disadvantage and such demands eventually led for recognition of Hawai'ian independence by the three foreign powers. +++++++++++++ JOHN LEDYARD 1751-1789 Born in Groton, Connecticut, son of a sea captain, Ledyard studied at Dartmouth College, lived among the Iroquois Indians, and paddled down the Connecticut River wrapped in a bearskin. After a voyage to the Mediterranean, Ledyard signed on as a corporal of marines on the flagship of Captain James Cook, unaware that his native country was at war with England. At the time of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay, Ledyard was in charge of the squad that defended the Resolutions foremast ashore and was bombarded by stones hurled by angry Hawai'ians. Ledyard remained in the Rotyal Navy for two years after returning to England, but toward the end of 1782 he deserted off Long Island. He wrote his own account of the Hawai'ian adventure. Ledyard ended his career as a celebrated explorer on land, who had walked across Siberia. He died in Cairo, Egypt, on his way to seek the sources of the Niger River. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To be continued in part 26. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan49nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 11.4 Kb