Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 33. October 12, 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 23, 2008, 12:35 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands October 12, 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 October 12, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - part 33. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 33. IMPORTANT PEOPLE JOHN MCALLISTER SCHOFIELD 1831-1906 A West Point graduate of 1853, Schofield won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the American Civil War and was one of Sherman's leaders in the march through Georgia. He served from 1868 to 1869 as secretary of war under President Andrew Johnson. He was headquartered in San Francisco in command of the Miltary Division of the Pacific in 1872 with the rank of Major General when he was ordered to go to Hawai'i " for the purpose of ascertaining the defensive capabilities of the different ports and their commercial facilities, and ....... to collect all information that would be of service to the country in the event of war with a powerful maritime nation." Schofield arrived on the U.S.S. California in company with Brevet Brigadier General B.S. Alexander of the Corps of Engineers, ostensibly on a vacation. The pairspent about two monthsvisiting the islands of O'ahu, Kaua'i, and Hawai'i, and discused the possibility of a reciprocity treaty with the newly elected King Lunalilo. Schofield made a secret report stating that he was much impressed with Pearl Harbor as the only feasible port in the North Pacific, and prophesied that annexation of Hawai'iby the United States would arrive by process of evolution. Schofield retired in 1895 with the rank of Lieutenant General. Schofield Barracks, the military installation on the Leilehua plain in central O'ahu, started in 1909, bears the General's name. +++++++++++ MARION MacCARRELL SCOTT 1843 -1920 Born in Fauquier, Kentucky, Scot attended Urania College and the University of Virginia. In 1874, after teachng inSan Francisco, he became a member of the faculty of the Imperial University of Japan; he organized the first normal school in that country and founded a system of public schools. He came to Hawai'i in 1881 and established the first public high school ( later renamed McKinley ) on King Street. He was principal from 1885 to 1919, and helped to provide secondary education to many young people of varied ethnic backgrounds. His daughter, Gertrude Scott Ivers Strabb, established a two-million trust fund in her father's name to provide scholarships for Hawai'i public school graduates attending mainland Universities. ++++++++++++ WILLIAM SHALER 1773 -1833 Shaler, American trader, was the partner of Richard Cleveland when the Lelia Byrd brought the first horses to Hawai'i in 1803. On Shaler's second visit, in 1805, the Lelia Byrd leaked so badly that he exchanged her for the Tamana, a schooner being built for Kamehameha I, The Lelia Byrd became the flagship of the King's growing fleet. ++++++++++++ STEPHEN SHEPARD 1800 -1834 Shepard was employed as a printer in New York when he decided to become a member of the mission to Hawai'i. He married Margaret Caroline Slow in October 1827, and the couple sailed with the Third Company in November. They were stationed at Honolulu, where Shepard worked in the printing office from 1828 to 1831; in the later year he spent some time at Lahainaluna Seminary before returning to Honolulu to serve until his death three years later. The Shepards had three children. ++++++++++++++ ROBERT WITT SHINGLE 1876 -1935 Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Shingle was a cub reporteron the local newspaper published by his father, and for three years worked on the Denver Repuplican. From 1896 to 1898 he was city editor of the Hawai'ian Star in Honolulu and then worked for a year on the Honolulu Advertiser before joing the real-estate firm of Henry Waterhouse & Co. Shngle was associated with this firm from 1899 until 1931, when it merged with the Bishop Trust Co. Later he was office or director of a half dozen other concerns. Shingle married Muriel Campbell, daughter of James Campbell, in 1909 and their eight children were among the heirs of the Campbell Estate. In the same year he was elected to the territorial legislature and from 1911 to 1913 he as treasurer of the City and County of Honolulu. He was elected to the senate in 1916 and 1922. Shingle was chairman of the central committee of the Republican party, participated in every political campaign for many years after annexation, and was a close advisor of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole. With the Prince and others, Shingle succeeded in having the Republican National Convention adot a pledge to give home rule to Hawai'i; he helped in 1921 to have Congress enact a bill permitting only residents to hold judgeships and important federal positions in the islands. He built the Robert W. Shingle Jr. Memorial Hospital at Hoolehua, Moloka'i, in 1931, at the time the only hospital on that island. +++++++++++ WILLIAM CORNELIUS SHIPMAN 1824 -1861 Born in Wethersfield, Connecicut, Shipman graduated from the Mission Institute, Quincy, Illinois in 1850, and the New Haven Theological Seminary, Connecticut, in 1853. he married Jane Stobie in that year and the couple arrived in the ship Chaska at Lahaina in 1854. They were stationed at Waiohinu, Hawai'i, where Shipman labored until his death six years later. The Shipmans had three children. The wife continued with her family school, and later married William H. Reed of Hilo. +++++++++++++ WALTER CAMPBELL SHORT 1880 -1949 Born in Fillmore, Illinois, Short graduated from the University of Illinois in 1901 and was appointed Second Lieutenant in the United States Army the following year. He served in the Phillipines ad Alaska and on the Mexican Border in 1916 before acting as Assistant Chief of Staff of the Third Army after the outbreak of World War II. Lieutenant General Short came to Hawai'i in February 1941, in command of the Hawai'ian Department of the United States Army, which on December 7 suffered the attack of Japanese warplanes. On December 8, at the request of Governor Joseph B. Poindexter, he assumed the post of Governor of Hawai'i under martial law. Short was replaced by Delos C. Emmons on December 17, returned to the mainland in February 1942, and retired from the Army during the next month. Two years later, he was exonerated by a court of inquiry for his actions during the attack, but a Congressional investigation in 1945 -1946 found the responsibility for the defeat lay with Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. ++++++++++++ ALEXANDER SIMPSON Nephew of Sir George Simpson, Alexander left the employ of the Hudson's Bay Co. in Canada and between 1839 and 1842 made four visits to Hawai'i. Unlike his peacemaking uncle, Alexander alied himself with Richard Charlton and other anti-American residents who hoped to make Hawai'i a colony of the British Empire. Simpson was made acting consul of Great Britain by Charlton when Charlton left for London in 1842. On the arrival of Lord George Paulett, Simpson pursued his efforts to annex Hawai'i.. He journeyed to London to carry Paulet's report to the Foreign Office nd continued to argue British claims in opposition to those of the American courier, J.F.B. Marshall, both of whom arrived in London in June, 1843. After Great Britain decided to acknowledge Hawai'ian independence, Simpson embittered, retired to private life. ++++++++++++ SIR GEORGE SIMPSON 1792 -1860 Simpson entered the service of Hudson's Bay Co in 1820, and became governor of the company's Canadian interests in 1821. He was knighted twenty years later. He came to Hawai'i in February 1842, to explore commercial possibilities. In August Captain S. Mallet threatened the chiefs, and British exspansionists led by Richard Charlton and Simpson's nephew, Alexander Simpson were seeking annexation by the British Empire. Sir George, anticipating the eventual London decison in favor of independence, granted 10,000 pounds of his company's funds to fianance the mission of Wiliam Richards and Timoteo Haalilio. In February 1843, the three envoys began recognitions in London, and on November 28 in that city a document was signed giving British and French recocognitin of Hawai'ian independence; American recognition was to follow. Thus, despite the complication of the Paulet episode, the " grand ultimate object " of the proposal of Sir George was attained. ++++++++++++++ ARCHIBALD NEIL SINCLAIR 1871-1930 Bon in New York, Sinclair was brought to Hawai'i as a boy by his father, ho was associated with the construction of Islani Palace. The young man attended the Punahou School and studied medicine in Glasgow, Scotland and Yaxley, England. He first practiced in Waianae, O'ahu, and in 1900, the year he married Flora Margaret Perry, he began serving for nine years as physician of the city of Honolulu. He was also made a director of Leahi Home that year, and later devoted all his time to Leahi Hospital as nedical director; one of the buildings at that facilit is named for him. Dr. Sinclair was physician in charge of the tuberculosis bureau and bacteriological department of the Territorial Board of Health from 1911 to 1916, and was made a fellow of the American College of Physicians in recognition of his work on tuberclosis. He was a strong advocate of prventive measures and made studies of several other diseases. +++++++++++++ ELIZA McHUTCHINSON SINCLAIR 1803 -1895. Born in Scotland, Eliza McHutcheson married Captain Francis S. Sinclair, who had commanded the British man-o-war on which the Duke of Wellington made is triumphant return to England ater the battle of Waterloo. The couple emigrated to New Zealand in 1840. She was widowed when her husband was lost at sea off Christchurch, New Zealand. She sold her property in 1863 and left with her family on the Corsair, a vessel owne and sailed by her son-in-law. It was laden with household goods, farming tools, and valuable sheep. The family first went to British Columbia by way of Tahiti and Hawai'i. When Caada did not suit Mrs. Sinclair, she brought the clan back to Hawai'i. Soon after their arrival, Kamehameha V put the island of Niihau up for sale in 1864. Mrs. Sinclair bought the land in 1864 in the names of her two sons for $10,000. She also bought tracts of land at Makawel'i and other regions on the island of Kaua'i. This is the origin of the lnd holding dynasty of the Sinclair-Robinsons. The matriarch lived until the age of ninty-two. The island of Niihau is still private property and has quite a history which will appear in another sequell in this website. Very few persons have been given permission to visit there because of its precious history and ancient Hawai'ian finds. ++++++++++++ ASA BOWEN SMITH 1809-1886 Born in Williamstown, Vermont, Smith graduated from Middlebury Collge, Vermont, in 1834 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1837. He married Sarah Gilbert White in March, 1838, and in the same month they left overland for the mission field in Oregon. At Lapwai in what is now Idaho, he helped to prpare material in the language of the Nez Perce Indians. The Smiths were sent to Honolulu, arriving in January 1842, and were stationed at Waialua, O'ahu in 1843 to 1845, when they returned to the United States. ++++++++++++ JAMES WILLIAM SMITH 1810 -1887 Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Smith was educated at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He practiced medicine in that city for five years before sailing with his wife, Melicent Knapp Smith, with the Tenth Company of American missionaries. The couple arrived in 1842 and were stationed at Koloa, Kaua'i, for the remainder of their lives. In 1844 Smith ws the only physician on the island, but was helped from that year until 1848 by the Rev. John Pogue. He was also assisted by Samuel Kahookui, a graduate of the second class at Lahainaluna Semenary. Dr. Smith fell ill during an 1845 influenza epidemic and took a whaling cruise to correct a lung ailment. In 1851, he asked to be released from the Mission Board and in 1854 ws ordained and installed as pastor of Koloa Church, although he continued his medical practice. Mrs. Smith established the Koloa Boarding School for Girls in 1861 and maintained it for ten years. The couple reared nine children. ++++++++++++++ LOWELL SMITH 1802 -1891 Born in Heath, Massachusetts, Smith graduated from Williams College in 1829 and from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1832. He married Abigail Willis Tenney in October 1832, and the couple sailed with the Sixth Company of American missionaries in November. They were stationed at Kaluaaha, Moloka'i in 1833 and at Ewa, O'ahu in 1834. Smith was assigned to Honolulu in 1836, first as a superintendant of the Kawaiahao schools and then for forty years as pato of the Second Church ( Kaumakapili ). He retired from pastorate in 1869 but still worked for the Hawai'ian peole for the rest of his life. Mrs. Smith began a day school for Hawai'ian children in Nuuanu Valley, to which from this time came English, Chinese, Negro, and Pacific island students. In 1856 this became a government school, the first English teaching common school in Hawai'i. Only two of her children survived infancy; Emma Louisa who married Benjamin Franklin Dillingham in 1869. ++++++++++++ MARCIA MARIA SMITH 1806 -1896 Born in Burlington, NewYork, Miss Smith arrived in Hawai'i in 1837 with the Eighth Company of American missionaries. She was first stationed at Kaneohe, O'ahu, as a teacher, and later opened a forerunner of Punahou School in Honolulu with twenty pupils, children of missionaries. She conducted classes in the backyard of Dr. Gerrit P. Judd. Later she taught children of missionaries at Koloa, Kaua'i. After Punahou School was organized in 1842, she was associated with the Daniel Dole family as matron and teacher for eleven years. She returned to the United States in 1852 but kept up her interest in Punahou during the remaining forty-six years of her life. She was the sister of the second wife of Lorenzo Lyons. +++++++++++++ MABEL LEILANI SMYTH 1892 -1936 Mabel Smyth, who was part Hawai'ian, graduated from Simmons College, Boston and completed studies at the Springfield Hospital School of Nursing, Massachusetts. She returned to Honolulu to become the director of the Palama Settlement's public health nursing service. In 1927 this work was joined with that of the Territorial Board of Health, and she directed the combined service until her death. A nationally recognized figure in public health nursing, she was honored by having a building near Queen's Hospital named for her in 1941. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in Part 34 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan67nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 15.7 Kb