Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 28. September 21, 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, 4:08 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands September 21, 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 21, 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 28. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 28 Important People; JOHN MACKAY John MacKay ( or McKey ) arrived on the Imperial Eagle, under Captain C. W. Barkley, in May, 1787. MacKay had been a surgeon's mate of a trading ship who by his own wish had spent a year among the Indians of the Nootka Sound country as the first European resident of that region. The " Irish " doctor was also to become the first white resident of the Hawai'ian Islands. He was living on the Kona Coast when Thomas Metcalf's schooner Fair American was captured in 1790. ++++++++++++ BOAZ MAHUNE ? - 1847 A cousin of Governor Paul Kanoa of Kaua'i. Mahune was a graduate of the frst class of students at Lahainaluna Seminary in 1835. He was one of the ten chosen to remain as teachers and translators. Mahune later served as scretary to Kamehameha III and drafted a number of tax laws adopted in 1842. He became manager of the King's Wailuku sugar plantation, which failed. Mahune returned to Lahaina and acted for a time as a judge; he then went back to Honolulu as a civil srvant. ++++++++++++++ LOUIS DESIRE MAIGRET 1804-1882 Maigret was a leader in the founding of the Catholic Church in Hawai'i and was its first Bishop, serving for more than thirty years. He was educated in France and was ordained at Rouen in 1828. He left for the South Pacific in 1834 and at Mangareva in the Gambier Group and in Chile he served until he first arrived in Hawai'i in 1837, scene of his future labors. The American Protestant mission that began work in the islands in 1820 soon became so firmly established among the chiefs that it was virtually the state religion. The incursion of Catholic missionaries under French auspices was therefore opposed and freedom of worship was not soon attained. The idea of French colonization of Hawai'i originated with Jean Rives. The pioneer mission arrived in Honolulu on July 7, 1827. It consisted of three priests of the Order of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; Father Alexis Bachelot, Abraham Armand, and Patrick Short, an Englishman. They were supported by a half dozen other Frenhmen. Kaahumanu ordered the ship's captain to take them away, but he refused and the group remained on shore. Their first mass was celebrated on Bastile Say, July 14, and the first baptism was given on November 30, to a child of Marin. A lawyer accompanying the group obtained from Kamehameha III a piece of land in Honolulu on which the first Catholic Chapel was opened. They had the protection of Governor Boki, who had been baptized on the French ship Uranie under Captain Freycinet i 1819, but he disappeared in 1830 and his wife Liliha was removed from power in 1831. On April 2 of that year, the chiefs read a decree of banishment to Fathers Bachelot and Short, and after several months fitted out a vessel and shipped the priests to Mexican California. The second attempt to found a Catholic Mission in the islands was made in 1835. the Church had created the Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern Oceania, and Father Bachelot had been made perfect of the area north of the equator. Brother Columbia Murphy, a jolly Irishman who was a British subject, arrived in 1835 to look over the situation. As a result, Father Arsenius Walsh, also a British subject, arrived on September 30,1836, and through the influence of the Captain of a French warship then in port was allowed to stay and minister to foreigners but not to native Hawai'ians.Bachelot and Short returned April 17, 1837, but on April 30 a decree ordered that they return on the same ship that had brought them. The English and American consuls sided with Jules Dudoit against the chiefs, and the priests were escorted ashore in early July by the Captains of a British and a French warship. Father Short did leave Honolulu at the end of October, but a few days later two more priests arrived on the scene. They were Murphy and Maigret, who for the first time saw the field of his future works. The fact that Murphy had been ordained since his first visit in 1835 was not revealed and he was allowed to land, but Maigret and Bachelot sailed on November 23 for the South Pacific, where Bachelot died at sea. Soon after their departure, Kamehameha III issued a ban against the teaching of practice of Catholicism in the islands, but in June 1839, what amounted to an edict of toleration was issued. As aresult of changing conditions and the demands of the French Captain C.P.T. Laplace, the Catholic mission was finally established when on May 15,1840, the Vicar Apostolic of the Pacific, Bishop Rouchouze, arrived with three other priests -- one of them the exiled Father Maigret. A church of stone was soon begun, and schools and churches were erected on other islands to advance the mission labors. The first Catholic printing press was set up in November, 1841, and operated for fifty years. In 1847 Maigret wa named Vicar Apostolic to the Sandwich Islands under the title of Bishop of Arathia and served as head of the mission until his death in 1882. ++++++++++++++ JAMES MAKEE 1812 -1879 Makee was born in Woburn, Massachsetts, and in 1836 in New York married Catherine McNiven. As master of a whale ship off the port of Lahaina, Mau'i, Makee was nearly killed by the cleaver of his chinese cook and left for dead. He was saved by the surgeons of an American warship in the roads, and after recovering decided to bring his wife to Hawai'i and spent the rest of his life in the islands. He set up a partnership in a trading business in Honolulu that acted as agents for many whalers using the port. Makee was a member of the first group to embark on the business of whaling from a Honolulu base; in 1851 he and his associates sent the ship Chariot to seek whales in the Arctic, and in 1854 the company sent out the whaler Black Warrior on a three year operation. Captain Mckee erected the first three story brick building in Honolulu and resided with his growing family on Nuuanu Avenue, but in 1856 he sold the house to King Kamehameha IV and purchased "Torbert's Plantation" at Ulupalakua on the south shore of the island of Mau'i. There he continued the cultivation of sugar cane and milling of sugar,and brought in thoroughbred cattle and dairy stock on a large scale. During the American Civil War he helped the Union cause by contributing molasses and produce for the benefit of the Sanitary Fund, predecessor of the Red Cross. Makee took the lead in 1877 in the construction of a breakwater at the harbor of Makena, Mau'i, and in two years later engaged in a cane-growing venture with King Kalakaua that became part of the Makee Sugar Co.; his interest in this firm was acquired at his death by his son-in-law, Z.S. Spalding. The Ulupalakua residence called " Rose Ranch " because of the gardening efforts of Mrs. Makee, was a center of hospitality for countless important people in the region, the King was a frequent visitor. The ranch was a site of a venture in growing wine grapes on the southwestern slopes of Mount Haleakala. At Makee's death, he was survived by his widow and eight children. +++++++++++++++ FREDRICK K. MAKINO 1877-1953 Born in Yokohama, Makino, he arrived in Hawai'i in 1899 and worked in the general store of his brother Jo at Naalehu,Mau'i. Fred began as an assistant bookkeeper, first for the Kona Sugar Co. and then for the Honokaa Sugar Co. In 1903 he opened the Makino Drug Co. in Honolulu and married Michiye Okamura of Kaua'i Makino became a publisher; he founded the Hawai'i Hochi in Japanese on December 7, 1912, adding an English section in 1925. He fought for the rights of Japanese aliens and was a leader of the O'ahu sugar plantation strike of 1909, which brought a pay increase for laborers; as head of the strike committee he was jailed from March to July, 1911. In 1920 Makino brought a successful Supreme Court suit to have Japanese schoolteachers admitted into the islands. In 1927, he brought another successful suit in the Supreme Court on behalf of eighty seven Japanese language schools. +++++++++++++ S. Mallet In command of the French sloop of war Embuscade, Captain Mallet was sent from Tahati by Admiral Petit-Thouars and arrived off Honolulu in August, 1842, to investigate charges that the Hawai'ian government had violated the 1839 treaties with LaPlace. Mallet was mainly concerned with the free import of French wines into the islands and permission for the Catholic priests to work without interference. The ship departed in September, allaying fears that Mallet would take possession of the islands for France. Ahuimanu School was started on O'ahu for Catholic education as one result of the visit. Two months later after Mallet's departure, news was received in Honolulu that Petit-Thouars had set up a French protectate over the Society and Marquesas Islands. +++++++++++++ DAVID MALO 1793-1853 Malo was brought up in the household of the high chief Kuakini ( John Adams ), brother of Kaahumanu. Then, having become a christian, he lived with the Rev. William Richards at Lahaina, Mau'i. In his late thirties, Malo entered the first class at Lahainaluna Seminary. He had learned to read and write in the Hawai'ian language, and helped Richards in his translations of part of the Bible. Ordained as a minister, Malo in his later years was pastor of the Congregational Church at Kalepolepo, Mau'i Malo favored the land division called the Great Mahele and encouraged people to survey and register their lands. He tried to introduce cotton growing and cloth manufacture in the islands, but warned Kinau against the influx of foreigners who might take over the land ad industry from the natives. He put down many chants, geneologies, and other Hawai'ian traditions which, written around 1840, were not translated until 1903. ++++++++++++ MANUIA ? -1830 A son of Kaulunae, Manuia was a younger cousin of Boki and went with the party of Kamehameha II to England. After his return Manuia was made commander of the harbor of Honolulu and the fortifications on Punchbowl Hill. Like Boki, he took part in the enterprises of foreigners and went with him in search of Sandalwood in the South Pacific --- an enterprise from which they did not return. +++++++++++++ ETIENNE MARCHAND 1755-1793 In command of the Solide, the first French ship to visit the islands after those of LaPerouse. Marchand arrived off the island of Hawai'i on October 4, 1791, en route from the Northwest Coast of America to China. After a voyage around the world, Marchand sailed as an officer of the French National Guard to the island of Mauritius, where he died. ++++++++++++++ FRANCISCO DE PAULA MARIN [ MANINI ] 1774-1837 Marin was born in Jerez, Andalusia, Spain, and deserted from the Spanish Navy at Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, on the Northwest Coast of America. He arrived in Hawai'i in 1793 or 1794, and served probably in the forces of Kamehameha I. He settled in Honolulu and began a family; at least three children were born before 1800. He may have traveled as a pilot to the South Pacific and China as well as to California, but was back in Honoulu by 1805. Marin began keeping a journal in Spanish in 1809 ; surviving portions have been translated, and contributed valuable documentary sidelights on the history of Hawai'i through 1826. A man of great versatility, Marin served his friend the King throughout his life as interpreter, business adviser, accountant, physician, and supplier of rum. He attended Kamehameha at the royal deathbed. Marin's home on the waterfront, at te junction of the Nuuanu and Pauoa Streas, was opened to ship captains and other paying guests, and he began a business of supplying vessels with many staples that he manufactured. His role as an introducer of dozens of plants from many parts of the Pacific may have been exaggerated by legend, but he certainly was adept at makng such useful products as coconut oil, soap, molasses, pickes, lime, tiles, nails, candles, and cigars. he experimented with raising pineapples and milling sugar, and his vineyard -- which gave its name later to a busy boulevard -- suppied wine and brandy. He kept a large herd of dairy cattle, from which he got milk, butter, and cheese. He owned what later came to be called Ford Island in Pearl Harbor and on it raised hogs, goats, and rabbits. Marin's mind was a strange mixture of pagan beliefs soaked up from his wives and friends and a pragmatic trust in experiment; but he never forgot his boyhood faith. As a visiting doctor in the community was said to have saved more than three hundred souls, by secretly baptizing patients. He was cautiously friendly with the Protestant missionaries, but became suspicious of their strictness; nor was he trusted by the Catolic clergy when he was reluctant to aid them. Marin had three wives and fathered more than twenty children during his forty five pioneer years in Hawai'i. ++++++++++++++ AUGUSTE J.B. MARGUES 1841-1929 Born in Toulon, France, Margues grew up in North Africa, son of a General in the French Army. He was educated in medicine and music at the University of Paris. He arrived in Hawai'i in 1878, bought a tract near Punahou School in 1880, and taught music at that school. He was a charter member of the Philharmonic Society and organized the Theosophical Society in 1893. He was responsible for the boring of the first artesin well in Honolulu. He served the legislature from 1890 to 1891 and at various times was consul for France, Russia, Panama, and Belgium. He was honored for his work by several dedorations, and served in Belguim during World War I. ++++++++++++++ JAMES F.B. MARSHALL 1819-1891 A New England merchant who came in 1839 to Honolulu, Marshall was chosen in 1842 to carry to Washington and London the royal dispatches concerning the Paulet episode, drafted by Dr.G.P. Judd. Marshall trveled to Mexico on the same ship with Alexander Simpson, and the documents each carried were deposited together in June 1843, on the same desk in the British Foreign Office. Joined by William Richards and Timothy Haalilio, Marshall pursued successful efforts to obtain recognition of the independence of the Hawai'ian Kingdom. He returned to Hawai'i and was elected to the legislature, and helped Richard Armstrong in establishing a system of public education. Marshall left the islands in 1859 to reside in Massachusetts. In 1870, he became manager of Hampton Institute, Virginia, founded by Samuel G. 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