Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 30. September 27, 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 October 6, 2008, 2:39 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands September 27, 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 27, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 30 by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 30 Important People; CHARLES MARTIN NEWELL 1823-1900 Newell was a whaling Captain and physician who visited Hawai'i often. He published a novel about a young chief, Kalanikupule, in Kalani of O'ahu, under the pen name of " Captain Bill Barnacle." He also published " Pehu Nu-e, the Tiger Whale of the Pacific, a novel in which appears a whale called " Mocha Dick " and a fictional biography " Kamehameha, the Conquering King." +++++++++++++ JOHN NICOL Cooper on the King George, flagship of Nathaniel Portlock, Nicol visited Hawai'i several times in 1786-1788. He was kept busy cutting lengths of iron hoops which were ground sharp by the carpenter; these were the most valuable article of trade with the Hawai'ians. He wrote a early account of the islands in his book called, " The life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner." ++++++++++++++ MARIA OGDEN 1792-1870 Born in Philadelphia, Miss Ogden arrived in Honolulu in 1828 at the age of thirty-six as a member of the Third Company of American missionaries, and was stationed at Waimea, Kaua'i, for a year. From 1829 to 1838, she served at Lahaina, Mau'i, teaching school for girls in the forenoon as well as a Sabbath school every Sunday. She then went to Wailukuk Female Seminary and taught for twenty years before going to Punahou School from 1858 to 1859. She was the first principal of the Makiki Female Seminary from 1859 until 1868, when she retired and the school closed. She was loved by about a thousand girls, two of which she adopted, and also cared for two children of Joseph Kekela, when this missionary was away in the Marquesas Group. +++++++++++++ TAKIE OKUMURA 1865-1951 Born in Katamachi, Kochi City, Kochi Perfecture, Japan, Okumura was imprisoned for taking part in a democratic movement. He was baptized as a christian in 1889 and graduated from Doshisha Divinity School in 1894. In the same year, he came to Hawai'i to succeed Pastor Jiro Okabe, when the latter toured the world. He had married Katsuko Ogawa in 1887 and in 1896 brought his family to the Islands. Okumura began missionary work in Honolulu in 1902 and 1903 organized the Aiyu Kai, the nucleus of the Makiki Christian Church; he retired as active pastor in 1937. Okumura established the first Japanese language school in Hawai'i, the Honolulu Shogakko, and was an advisor to several other such schools. He was one of the founders of the YMCA in Honolulu, and his Okumura Home trained more than fifteen hundred young people. He fought anti-Japanese sentiment and his Americanization program, it is believed, influenced many of the young men who volunteered for service during World War II. He visited Japan and the mainland several times, and made a world tour and visited the Holy Land. +++++++++++ FRANCIS ALLYN OLMSTED 1819-1844 Born the son of a professor at the University of North Carolina, Olmsted graduated from Yale University and went on a sailing ship in search of improved health. Although he spent only ten weeks in Hawai'i in the summe of 1840, Olmsted filled six chapters of his travel book with many observations on the town of Honolulu, surfing exploits, mission life, and the royal family. A chapter is devoted to his excursion to the Big Island and the life of the bullock hunters that were the predecessors of the Hawai'ian paniolos, or cowboys. He illustraited by engravings from his own drawings. W.Storrs Lee in preface of a 1969 reprint considered Olmsted's account of his stay in the islands " one of the wittiest pictures of Hawai'i created prior to the visit of Mark Twain." ++++++++++++ HENRY OPUKAHAIA [ OBOOKIAH ] 1792-1818 Born on the island of Hawai'i, the child saw his parents and small brother slain in tribal war when he was ten years old. Reared at Napoopoo on the shore of Kealakekua Bay by an uncle who was a Kahuna or Priest. Opukahaina ( the name means " stomach cut open " ) left in 1809 and sailed in the ship Triumph to New England. Befriended by the students of Yale College and Andover Seminary and other church people, he became a christian under the name of Henry Obookiah, the first Hawai'ian convert. He was sent to the foreign mission school at Cornwall,Connecticut, and went into training as a future field worker. He started to translate the Bible into Hawai'ian and planned to join the First Company of missionaries, but died of typhus fever on February 17,1818, aged twenty-six. A funeral sermon preached by the Reverand Lyman Beecher and the publication of Obookiah'a Memoirs, aroused a wave of interest that culminated a year after his death in the departure of the bark, Thaddeaus, with the First Company of Congregationalists to Hawai'i. Thus the wandering convert was the inspiration for the first Christian mission to the Sandwich Islands. +++++++++++ LLOYD OSBOURNE 1868 -1947 Born in San Francisco, son of Fanny Osbourne, who later married Robert Louis Steveson, Osbourne accompanied the author during his Pacific years and collaborated with him on two novels, " The Wrecker and The Ebb-Tide," Following Stevenson's death in 1894, Osbourne served as American vice consul at Samoa for three years and later went to New York to become fairly successful as an author of plays and fiction. ++++++++++++ MANUEL PACHECO 1874-1951 Born in the Azores, Pacheco came to Hawai'i with hs family in 1883. He was trained as a bookbinder in 1889 and worked some years for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. He married Julia Freitas in 1895. Pacheco was one of the founders of the Portuguese Political Club in 1900. he was a member of the O'ahu Board of Supervisors in 1912; court clerk in 1914; chaiman of the Honolulu Charter Convention; senator of the territorial legislature from 1916 to 1918; and supervisor from 1918 to 1934 and 1940 to 1951, often in controversy over fiscal matters. He was president of the San Antonio Society. ++++++++++++ ABNER PAKI 1808-1855 Paki was born on Moloka'i, a descendant of the Kamehameha and Kiwalao families of Mau'i and Hawai'i. He was the great-garndson of Kekaulike. His father was Kalanihelemaiiluna and his mother was Kuhooheiheipahu. He was captain of the fort at Honolulu in 1840 and a member of the national council. In the early 1840's he joined the Christian Church. He was at various times a Supreme Court Judge, member of the House of Nobels, acting governor of O'ahu, privy councillor, and chamberlain to Kamehaeha III. He was the husband of Konia and father of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, for whom in 1847, he built a large house in the center of Honolulu. ++++++++++++ KULUWAIMAKA PAPIHENUI PALEA 1837 -1937 Born in Naalehu in the Ka'u district of the Big Island, Palea came to Honolulu and devoted his life to the art of Hawai'ian chanting. For many years, he was chief chanter at the court of Kalakaua. He was famed for his powerful memory -- often for the beauty of his chanting. He became chief instructor at the Hawai'ian language school of George P. Mossman, who chanted with the old man as he died, at nearly one hundred years of age. +++++++++++ ELLA HUDSON PARIS 1852-1938 Daughter of the Rev. John D. Paris, Ella for many years held English lessons at her home in Kona, and for eight years assisted in the Sunday School of Lanakila Church. She later was superintendant of the Kahikola Trinity Church Sunday School at Kealakekua for more than thirty years. After the death of her parents, she transcribed more than one hundred church songs into Hawai'ian under the pen name of " Hualalai." ++++++++++++ JOHN DAVIS PARIS 1809-1892 Born in Staunton, Virginia, Paris attended Hanover College, Indiana, for two years and graduated at Bangor Theological Semenary, Maine, in 1839. He married Mary Grant in October, 1840, and the couple sailed in November with the Ninth company of American missionaries. They were stationed at Waiohinu, hawai'i in 1841, where Mrs Paris, having born two daughters, died six years later. On a visit to the United States, Paris married Mary Carpenter in 1851 and returned with her to the islands. He was stationed at Kealakekua from 1852 until his death forty years later. He and his second wife were parents of twe children, including Ella Hudson Paris. ++++++++++++ WILIAM COOPER PARKE 1822-1889 The future marshal of the Kingdom, who served under five rulers, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He attended school of Boston but ran away to sea at the age of nineteen. He landed in Honolulu in 1843 and worked as a cabinet maker. He was the first men to locate a claim in California and brought back to Honolulu some gold obtained near the mill of General John Sutter. Upon his return, Parke was named marshl by Kamehameha III and served until asked by Kalakaua to resign for political reasons in 1884. Parke organized an efficient police system which was especially effective duing the smallpox epidemic if 1853. Previously, in 1851, he had warned off two dozen filibusters, led by Sam Brannan. who arrived from San Francisco in hope of having the kingdom fall into their hands during a time of turmoil. ++++++++++++ BENJAMIN WYMAN PARKER 1803-1877 Born in Redding, Massachusetts, Parker graduated from Amherst College in 1829 and Andover Theological Semenary in 1832. He married Mary Elizabeth Barker in September of that year and the couple sailed with the Sixth Company of American missionaries in November. After an attempt with William Patterson Alexanders and the Richard Armstrongs to set up a mission in the Marquesas Islands in 1833 -1834, the parkers were stationed at Kaneohe, O'ahu, in 1834 and served for more than thirty years. The Parkers had four children, including Henry Hodes Parker. ++++++++++++ HENRY HODGES PARKER 1834-1927. Born at Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands, son of the Rev. Bejamin Wyman Parker, henry was a member of the first class at Punahou School. He studied theology under the Rev. Ephraim Weston Clark, pastor of Kawaiahao Church; he was ordained in 1863, appointed assistant pastor, and served as pastor for more than fifty years. Parker was a firiend and counselor of kings and chiefs and was a deligate to the Constitutional Convention of 1864. His first language was Hawai'ian, in which he always preached. He undertook the revision in 1914 of the Hawai'ian dictionary of Lorrin Andrews which was published in 1922. ++++++++++++ JOHN PALMER PARKER 1790 - 1864 The future founder of one of the great cattle ranches now under the American flag. Parker was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and sailed at the age of nineteen on a ship trading furs. He saw Hawai'i in 1811 and signed on a ship taking sandalwood to Canton, China, where it was blackaded for two years. Parker arrive again in 1815 and Kamehameha I hired him. first as a supervisor of fishponds, and then as a hunter of wild cattle in the forests of Waimea, where a kapu had allowed the animals brought by George Vancouver began to propagate and overrun the countryside. The hides were prepared for shipment and the beef was salted for sale to visiting ships. In 1853, Parker showed George Wahington Bates, a rifle with which he had shot twelve hundred head of wild cattle. Parker in 1818, married Rachel Kelii-kipikane-o-koolakala, a chieftess of an old Kohala family and a cousin of Kanekapolei. The Parkers set up a small homstead at Mana on Mauna Kea and began collecting a herd of tame cattle. He worked for the William French Co at Waimea in the 1830's, taking his pay in cattle. Parker acquired tousands of acres of grazing land on the uplands, built a sawmill, and bred a large herd. His son, John Palmer Parker II, did much to extend and consolidate the ranch, which was inherited by a third of that name, adopted by his grandfather after his own father died. ++++++++++++++ JOHN PATY 1807-1868 Paty, from Massachusetts, was commissioned by Kamehameha III in 1846 as his " consul and naval commander for the California coast with a rank of Commodore." He was master of various vessels plying between Hawai'i and California from 1850 to 1868. ++++++++++++ LORD GEORGE PAULET 1803-1879 Complaints against the Hawai'ian Crown by Richard Charlton in Mexico caused Rear Admiral Richard Thomas to send the frigate Carysfort to Honolulu under the command of Lord George Paulet, who had entered the Royal Navy in 1817. Ariving on February 10, 1843, Captain Paulet listened to angry words of Alexander Simpson. King Kamehameha III, summoned at once from Lahaima, was ordered to acknowledge the pro-British position of Simpson within eight hours or the town would be bombarded ny cannons of the ship. Paulet made furter demands, such as the payment of more than $100,000. The Hawai'ian flag was replaced by the British flag on February 25, and three of the King's schooners were taken over. The Union Jack flew over the islands for five months. Dr. G.P. Judd resigned when naval officers began to interfere with Hawai'ian internal affairs. The arrival of Commodore Lawrence Kearney in his flagship, U.S.S. Constellation, caused it to be rumored that the Americans had recognized the independence of th islands. An open break between two nations was prevented by the timely arrival of Admiral Thomas in the Dublin, and the forced cession of Hawai'i to Great Britain was ended. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To be continued in Part 31 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan54nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 14.6 Kb