Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 26. September 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People -- Part 26. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 26 Important People WILLIAM LITTLE LEE 1821-1857 A young American Lawyer, Lee arrived in Hawai'i in the winter of 1846 and was appointed on December 1, as a judge in Honolulu. This began a new era in the history of the judiciary, and he was to serve with distinction. Along with John Ricord, Lee took a lead in the framing of the organic acts in September, 1847, and helped draft the Constitution of 1852. Because of his leadership in promoting the Great Mahele in 1846, Lee may be considered the father of Hawai'i's present land laws. He was interested in agriculture, was a partner in the firm of H.A Pierce that established Lihue Plantation, was the author of the " Act for the Government of Masters and Servants" of 1850, setting up laws concerning immigrant labor, and was a guiding spirit in the Royal Hawai'ian Agriculure Society founded the same year. Along with Dr. G.P. Judd, Judge Lee was appointed to treat with French Admiral Legoarant de Tromelin in 1849, and he was consulted when annexation by the United States was being considered by the Hawai'ian government in 1854. +++++++++++ LELEIOHOKU ? - 1848 A son of Kalanimoku, he became governor of the island of Hawai'i in 1846. he married Princess Harriet Nahienaena on November 25,1835. After her death in 1836, he married Princess Ruth and fathered two sons. Leleiohoku died during the measles epidemic in 1848. +++++++++++ WILLIAM PITT KALAHOOLEWA LELEIOHOKU 1835-1877 Brother of two future rulers of the kingdom, Leleiohoku was the yoingest son of Kapaakea and his wife Keohokalole and brother of David Kalakaua and Lydia Lili'uokalani. The child was adopted at birth by Princess Ruth, who named him Leleiohoku in memory of her first husband and made him heir to her large estate. The boy grew up to be a gifted poet and musician, and in 1876 founded a choral society, the Hui Kawaihau ( the name means " Ice Water Club " ). Some of his compositions are still sung in the Islands. Soon after Kalakaua became King, he named Leleiohoku as his successor. The American minister in Honolulu wrote that Leleiohoku was " of correct morals, well- educated and accomplished." and "promised to become, had he lived to ascend the throne, a wise and popular sovereign." Sadly, he died of pneumonia on April 9, 1877, leaving Lili"uokalani as the heir of her brother, with results not always fortunate for the royal family. +++++++++++++ ROBERT LEWERS 1836-1924 Born in NewYork City, Lewers landed in Honolulu in 1856 and was employed as a carpenter. In 1860, he joined the lumbering firm of his cousin, Christopher H. Lewers, founded in 1852. In 1877, following the death of Christopher, Robert and Charles Montague Cooke, Sr. became partners with J.G. Dickson in the thriving firm. When Dickson died in 1880, the company became Lewers and Cooke - still an important name in economy of Hawai'i. Lewers married Catherine B. Carter in 1867 and the couple had a son and a daughter. ++++++++++++++ MIRIAM KAPILI LIKELIKE 1851-1887 Miriam was a younger child of Kapaakea and Keohokalole, and therefore sister of David Kalakaua and Lydia Lili'uokalani. She was married on September 22, 1870, to Archibald Scott Cleghorn, and their only child was Princess Victoria Kaiulani. +++++++++++ LILIHA ? -1842 Liliha was the daughter of Hoapilikane and a granddaughter of Kalola. She was the wife of Boki and accompanied him to England in 1823. After his departure on a voyage to the South Pacific, she succeeded him as governor of O'ahu. Hearing in 1831 that Kaahumanuand her missionary advisors were planning to remove her from office, Liliha bought guns and ammunition and with armed men occupied the fort at Honolulu and the battery on top of Punchbowl Hill. Her father, Hoapili, governor of Maui, persuaded her to resume loyalty to Kamehameha III. The chiefs decided on April 1, however, to put O'ahu under Kaahumanu, who in turn appointed her brother Kuakini, governor of the Island of Hawai'i, as acting governor. Lilha then retired to Lahaina, Mau'i, but remained the center of the anti-missionary faction. Kamehameha III tried to replace Kinau with Liliha, but failed. In 1839, during the " Great Revival," Liliha was converted to the Protestant faith, along with many other chiefs. ++++++++++++ LYDIA KAMAKAEHA KAOLAMALII LILI'UOKALANI 1839 -1917 Last of the rulers of the Kingdom of Hawai'i, Lili'uokalani was born in Honolulu, one of seven children of Kapaakea and his wife Keohokalole. Her great-grandfather was Keawe-A-Heulu, who, she claimed, was first cousin to the father, of Kamehameha I. The child was adopted by Paki and Konia and reared as foster sister to Bernice Pauahi. Lydia was two years younger than her brother Kalakaua, and she was also a sister of Miriam Likelike, who was much younger. Lydia attended the Royal School and had a good education. On September 16, 1862, Lili'uokalani married John Owen Dominis, shortly before he was made governor of the island of O'ahu. The couple lived at his mother's home at Washington Place, named by Anthony Teneyck. She acted as regent of the kingdom during the world tour of Kalakaua, and the childless king made his sister the heiress apparent on April 10, 1877, after the death of Willam Pitt Leleiohoku. Lili'uokalani attendedthe jubilee of Queen Victoria of England with her sister-in-law, Queen Kapiolani in 1887. A strong willed woman, who firmly believed in the rights of royalty, Lili'uokalani swore that had she had been at home, her brother would have never signed away his powers in the " Bayonet Constitution" of 1887, as she clled it. After the death of Kalakaua, Lili'uokalani was proclaimed queen on January 29, 1891. Her desire to restore the old authority of the crown, led to the downfall of the crown. The wise restraint of her husband, Dominis, was lost when he died seven months after her accession. Revolution was in the air, and her efforts to overthrow the Constitution of 1887 which she had taken the oath to maintain was only one of the complicated causes of the bloodless overthrow of the monarchy. Deposed on January 17, 1893, she continued to obtain support from firebrands like Robert Wilcox. When, during the counter-revolution of 1895, a small arsenal of arms and dynamite bombs was uncovered at Washington Place, the lady was comfortably confined in an upper room of her former palace. Mrs Dominis signed a formal abdiction and pledged allegiance to the Republic of Hawai'i. Lili'uokalani attended the celebration at the opening of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in 1911, seated with her old enemy Sanford B. Dole. When the United States entered World War I, she flew the Stars and Stripes over Washington Place for the first time, to announce her loyalty in the global conflict. Lili'uokalani is remembred as the author of a number of songs, especially " Aloha Oe "; the words written are preserved on a bronze plaque inlaid in a lava boulder at Washington Place. ++++++++++++ LILOA Son of Kiha and father of Umi. Liloa built the heiau of Honuaula in Waipio Valley, his home. Before he died, Liloa gave Umi the custody of the war god while making Hakau, Umi's half-brother, is heir. Umi defeated Hakau in battle and sacrificed the loser and his attendants at the heiau. Thus began a tradition upheld by Kamehameha I, when he defeated his half-brother Kiwalao. +++++++++++++ JOHN GRIFFITH LONDON [ Jack ] 1876-1916. With an international reputation as an adventurer and popular author, London sailed his self-designed ketch, The Snark, from San Francisco to Honolulu in 1907, and with his wife Charmian Kittredge London, spent five months touring the Hawai'ian Islands before embarking on a two year cruise of the South Seas. London learned to ride a surfboard at Waikiki, was entertained by Prince Kalanianaole and the deposed Queen Lili'uokalani, and with his wife rode around O'ahu. Then they visited Haleakala Ranch on the Island of Mau'i, and Jack wrote a graphic chapter in " The cruise Of the Snark," concerning their trip through the " House of the Sun," the dormant crater Haleakala. They went to the Big Island, stayed at the Parker Ranch, and watched the bubbling fire pit of Halemaumau at Kilauea Volcano. A visit to the isolation colony on Molokai elicited another chapter, about the lepers resident there. London decided that the horrors of Molokai had been exaggerated, but three of his six stories in "The House of Pride." which concern leprosy, and after the publication of the book his former hosts in Hawai'i scolded him in print for dwelling on this aspect of Island life. Two stories in this collection are based roughly on the careers of Chun Afong and Koolau. The Londons fell in love with Hawai'i and returned there in 1915 and 1916. At the death of London at the age of 40, the unfinished manuscript of a novel about Hawai'i's multiracial cmmunity was found on his desk. London's second wife, Charmain, whom he married not long before they voyaged to the islands in 1907, was an enthusiastic later visitor. She intentionally omitted from her book " The Log of the Snark " her comments on the voyage in the islands in 1907; this was reserved for her book " Our Hawai'i." It contains three articles by Jack written in 1916 and entitled " My Hawai'ian Aloha." More information on the islands is found in Charmian's two volume " The Book of Jack London." ++++++++++++++++ ELISHA LOOMIS 1799-1836 Born in Rushville, New York, Loomis became at the age of sixteen an apprentice printer in Canandaigua. In 1819, he attended the Foreign Mission School at Cornwall, Connecticut, during the summer before he and his wife, Maria Theresa Sartwell Loomis, whom he married in September, saied with the First Company of American missionaries to Hawai'i in October. The couple were stationed at Kawaihae, Hawai'i, on their arrival, but moved their school to Honolulu in November, 1820. After the missonaries worked out a roman alaphabet for writing the Hawai'ian language, Loomis set up his second hand Ramage press and composed a few pages of type for an elementary selling book. On January 7, 1822, in a grass roofed hut at Kawaiahao, the first printing in the North Pacific region was struck off. Chief Keeaumoku II ( Governor Cox ) pulled the lever that put down pressure on the form, and the first page of millions put out by the Mission Press was lifted off. In December, 1823, the press was moved into the first building regularly used as a printing office. The Loomis family ( their son Levi was the first white child born in the islands ) left for the United States in 1827, but Elisha supervised the printing books in Hawai'ian from 1828 to 1829 at Rochester, New York. For two years he was a missionary with the Ojibway Indians at Mackinac Island, Michigan. ++++++++++++ EBENEZER PARKER LOW [ EBEN ] 1864-1954 Born in Honolulu, grandson of John Palmer Parker. Low attended Iolani School. He joined Theo. H. Davies & Co., in 1881 as office boy and rose to become cashier and plantation accountant in 1887. From 1890 to 1893 he managed the Kohala Ranch; he then became a partner with Robert Hind and started Puuwaawaa Ranch, but arrangement soon ended. In 1900 he managed the Woods cattle Ranch. Previous to losing one hand in a roping accident, Low was a star rider and hog-tier and in 1908, when he took some Hawai'ian cowboys or paniolos to the Cheyenne Roundup, he was crowned as the " one-handed champion roper of the world." From 1908 to 1910, Low managed the Humuula Ranch and in 1909 begana shipping business with Miller Salvage Co. In 1913, he established the O'ahu Shipping Co., with J.B. Castle, whose interests he bought in 1917. Low was a member of the Honolulu Board of Supervisors, a founder of the Kamehameha Day celebration, and a yachtsman who made several cruises to the South Pacific and who was a crew member of the Yacht Lurline when it won a trans-pacific race. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To be continued in part 27. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan50nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 13.2 Kb