Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 27. September 20, 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, 4:07 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands September 20, 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 20, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 27 by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 27 Important People WILLIAM CHARLES LUNALILO 1833-1874 Lunalilo was a chief of high ancestry He was a grandson of a half-brother of Kamehameha I. His parents were Charles Kanaina and Kekauluohi, a sister of Kinau. The mother of Lunalilo died when he was ten years old, and he was brought up asa spoiled prince. He was educated at the Royal School, spoke English better than he did Hawai'ian, and was very popular among the American colony. When Kamehameha V died without naming a sucessor, the Constitution provided that the throne should be filled by a vote of Legislatures. Lunalilo, the outstanding survivor of the royal line, offered himself as a candidate when a mass meeting of Hawai'ians voted unanimously that he was their choice. It was known that Lunalilo did not favor the Constitution of 1864, and he held no posts under Kamehameha V. His opponent was David Kalakaua. The voters on January 1, 1873, were almost unanimous in favor of the " Prince Bill," and he took the throne on January 8. King Lunalilo began at once to offer many ammendments to the constitution of 1864, especially to abolish the property qualification for voting. Like the three previous Kings, Lunililo tried to obtain a reciprocity treaty with the United States, and at this time the idea arose of offering a lease on Pearl Harbor. A storm of protest arose, causing the legislature and the King to take back such a proposal. The short reign of Lunalilo was marked mainly by a mutiny of the Household Troops, who rebelled against their officers on Sunday September 7, and remained in their barracks until a carefully worded message from the King, asking that they lay down their arms, was obeyed on the following Friday. The King then disbanded what Dr.Gerrit P. Judd called " a useless and expensive army." A discription of the King soon after he ascended the throne was given by Isabella Bird Bishop, who wrote, in part: " The King is a very fine looking man of thirty eight, tall, well formed, broad chested, with his head well set on his shoulders and his feet and hands saml. His appearance is decidedly commanding and aristocratic; he is ceratinly handsome even according to our notions. He has a fine open brow, significant at once of brains and straightforwardness, a straight, proportionate nose, and a good mouth." He had been engaged in hs youth to Princess Victoria Kamamalu, but the wedding was opposed by Kamehameha IV. Poor health aggravated by heavy drinking developed in Lunalilo a serious cae of Tuberculous. He died in Honolulu on February 3, 1874, a little more than a year after his election. He wshed to have his own tomb instead of joining others in the Royal Mausoleum, and this tomb still stands on Punchbowl Street in Kawaiahao Churchyard. Lunalilo is best remembered as the first Hawai'ian to leave his proerty to a work of charity. His will created the Lunalilo Home, " for the use and accomodation of poor, destitute, and infirm people of Hawai'ian blood or extraction, giving preference to old people." He was succeeded on the throne by Kalakaua. ++++++++++++++ JOHN MORTIMER II LYDGATE 1854-1922 Born at Gore's Landing, Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada, son of John Mortimer and Helen Elwell Lydgate, Lydgate came to Hawai'i with his parents in 1866, in company with Alexander Young and family in founding the Hilo Iron Works but later sold his interest to Young and moved to Laupahoehoe, Hawai'i, where he started a sugar plantation subsequently sold to Theo H. Davies & Co. The younger Lydgate attended Punahou School and was employed from 1873 to 1875 as a government surveyor, laying out the first wagon road from Hilo to Kalauea Volcano. Heeding the call to the ministry, he received a bachelor degree in 1880 from Toronto University and despite family problems graduated from the Yale Divinity University in 1891 For four years he was pastor of the Congregational Church at Stellecoom, Washington, but returned to Hawai'i and founded the Lihue Union Church in 1898, where he served until 1919. On the secular side, Lydgate proposed to the McBryde family that their cattle Ranch should be turned into a sugar plantation, and this was done in 1903 and Lydgate served as managing director until 1910. He was also active in land and engineering developments on Kaua'i, and was a collector of botanical speciums. He spoke Hawai'ian fluently and published a dozen versions of native legends. He founded the Kaua'i Historical Society in 1914. Lydgate was instrumental in obaining several park sites for the people of Kaua'i; the largest and most beautiful of these was named for him officially after his death. Lydgate married Helen Elwell in 1898 and the couple had four sons. ++++++++++++++ DAVID BELDEN LYMAN 1803 -1884 Born in New Hartford, Connecticut, Lyman graduated from William's College in1828 and from Andover Theological Semenary in 1831, the year he was ordained. He married Sarah Joiner in the same year and the couple sailed with the Fifth Company of American missionaries to Hawai'i. They were stationed at Hilo and spent the remainder of their lives in that town Lyman established the Boys' Boarding School in 1836 and was principal until 1874. He performed pastorial duties during the frequent absence of the Rev. Titus Coan on preaching tours. Mrs. Lyman was a teacher at the school and promoted musical performances. The pair had eight children, and founded a family still prominent in the islands today. One of his sons was Henry Munson Lyman, who spent most of his life in Hilo as a physician, educator, and writer. ++++++++++++++ LORENZO LYONS 1807 -1886 Born in Colerain, Massachusetts, Lyons was educated at Union College, New York and Auburn Theological Semenary, Massachusetts. He was ordained in 1831 and married Betsey Curtis two months before the couple sailed for Hawai'i with the Fifth Company of American missionaries. On arrival in 1832 they are stationed at Waimea, Hawai'i, where he labored for the following fifty four years. His first wife died in 1837 having borne one living son, and the following year he married Lucia Garrett Smith, who bore him two daughters and a son. Lyons became an expert in Hawai'ian language, established popular singing schools, and composed hymns. +++++++++++++ LINCOLN LOY MCCANDLESS 1859-1940 Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, son of a merchant, Lincoln was one of three brothers who were early developers in the islands. John A. McCandless was born in 1853 and James S. McCandlesss was born in 1855. James, who had experiece in drilling for oil in West Virginia, heard from Samuel G. Wilder in San Francisco in 1880 that artesian wells were needed in Hawai'i. He immediately headed for Honolulu; a year later James was joined by John, and the next year Lincoln follwe. The three formed the firm of McCandless Brothers in 1882 and thereafter drilled more than six hundred wells in the various islands to provide water for the spreading sugar plantations; the vary existance of B.F. Dillingham's Ewa Plantation west of Honolulu was owed to the discovery of subterranean water there. Lincoln conceived the successful idea of diverting water from Waiahole, Waikane, and Kahana, on the windward side of O'ahu, and converting it by tunnel through the Koolau Range to the Central sugar islands. The brothers also invested in California mines, ranching, and construction. Lincoln was one-third owner of the McCandlesss Buildings. He participated as a Democrat in every political campaign as a Democrat during the years of the Territory until 1940; he was a representative from 1889 to 1900 and a senator from 1902 to 1906. He helped convince Congress to exclude a property qualification for voting under the Organic Act in 1898 and sponsored the Torrens Land Court Act. He also advocated government aid for homesteaders and making Honolulu a free port. He was territorial delegate for Congress from 1933 to 1935, when he worked for Statehood for Hawai'i. Mc Candless was married to Elizabeth Jane Cartwright of New York and they had one daughter. ++++++++++++++ CHARLES JAMES McCARTHY 1861-1929 Born in Boston, McCarthy was educated in the schools of San Francisco and came to Hawai'i in 1881 to represent a fruit wholesaler. During the monarchy, he was a member of the House of Nobles in 1890 and a secretary of the Legislature in 1892. He was a captain in the Honolulu Rifles during the troubles raised by Walter Murray Gibson and Robert W. Wilcox. and opposed the dethronement of Queen Lili'uokalani. However, he was a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard during the period of reconstruction. All this time he was engaged in business. His political career opened in 1907, when he began serving in the senate of the Territory; he left in 1912 and was elected city treasurer of the Territory until 1918. He was appointed fifth Governor of Hawai'i by President Woodrow Wilon on June 22, 1918, and served until July 5, 1921. McCarthy helped to get the islands back to peacetime basis after World War I. He believed that after two degades as a territory, Hawai'i was ready for Statehood and recommended to the legislature in 1919 that a memorial be sent to Congress to that effect. He was the first governor to recommend statehood. For the next wo years he represented the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce in Washington. D.C. He then worked for the land department of the Hwai'ian Dredcing Co. to reclaim sections of Waikiki. In 1925 McCarthy was general manager of the water and sewer department of Honolulu. He married Margaret Teresa Morgan in 1889 and they had five daughters. ++++++++++++++ JOHN STRAYER McGREW 1825-1911 Born in Lancaster, Ohio, the future "Father of Annexation" was taken at an early age to Cincinnati, where his father founded the local " Inquirer." McGrew earned a medical degree at the Ohio Medical College in1847. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as a surgeon in the Union Army in the Civil War. On a world tour with his bride, Pauline Gallet, he arrived in Hawai'i in 1866 and settled in Honolulu to enter medical practice. or many years, Dr. Mcgrew was incharge of the Marine Hospital and was the first president of the Honolulu Medical Society. The doctor prospered, and his home, on the site of the future Alexander Young Building, was a center of hospitality. He was a member of the commission that co-operated with J.M. Schofield and B.S. Alexander in making a survey for an American naval base at Pearl Harbor, as provided for by the reciprocity treaty. Although filibusters from California had dreamed of conquering the islands, McGrew is believed to have been the first political proponent of the idea that Hawai'i should be an American possession. He was called " Annexation McGrew " by King Kalakaua, who opposed his efforts but could not deny his sincerity. Immediately after deposition of Queen Lili'uokalani, Mc Grew was named by the Annexation Club as honorary editor of the Hawai'ian Star. During this period, the life of the doctor was threatened but he did not waver in his purpose, which was eventually fulfilled. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To be continued in part 28 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan51nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 12.3 Kb