Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - part 35. October 18, 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, 12:46 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands October 18, 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 18, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 35 by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 35 Important People BETSEY STOCKTON 1798 -1865 Born a black slave, Betsey lived for many years as a servant in the family of President Green of Princeton Colleg in New Jersey. She still found time for wide reading and was qualified to teach school. She was accepted by the American mission and arrived in Hawai'i with the Second Company in Honolulu in 1823. She was stationed at Lahaina, where she assisted the family of the Rev. C.S.Stewart and conducted a school for working Hawai'ians and their families. She returned to the United States with the Stewarts in 1825 and continued to labor in the mission field. +++++++++++++++ CHARLES WARREN STODDARD 1843 -1909 Born in Rochester, New York, Stoddard became one of the well-known San Francisco group of writers and extended his travels into the Pacific. He spent several years in Hawai'i and celebrated the languorous life of the islands and wrote his accounts of his trek through the crater of Haleakala and about the Lepers of Moloka'i. +++++++++++ JULIA JUDD SWANZY 1860 -1941 Julia Judd was born in Hawai'i, daughter of Col. Charles Hastings Judd and grandaughter of Dr. G.P. Judd. She was educated at Punahou School and Mills College in Oakland, California. In 1887 she married Francis Mills Swanzy who was born in Ireland and was for many years managing director of Theo H. Davies & Co., and President for two terms of the Hawai'i Sugar Planters Asociation. For over a half a century, Julia was a leading civic and social figure in Honolulu. She is best remembered for her work in education; she established and directed the activities of the Free Kindergarten and Children's Aid Association. She was also the chairman of the recreation commission in the City and County of Honolulu. She donated land on which was established the Swanzy Beach Park at Kaaawa on O'ahu's North Shore in 1921 and it was named in her memory. She restored Hulihee Palace at Kailua, Hawaii'i, which was built in 1837. The Swanzys had two daughters. ++++++++++++++ GENEVIEVE TAGGARD 1894-1948 Genevieve was born in Waitsburg, Washington and came to Hawaii when she was two years old with her parets who taught in the public schools. Up until the time she entered Punahou School, her playmates were almost entirely children of the various races that prdomininated in the islands in the early part of the century. She taught for a year at a rural school near Pearl Harbor and then in 1914 left to study at the University of California. After graduation, she went east and became an editor,a poet, and a teacher of literature and writing in several women's colleges. Five of her twelve volumes of poems contain verses about Hawai'i. She also wrote two classics short stories of the islands called " The Plague " and " Hiawatha in Hawai'i.' ++++++++++++++ JULES TAVERNIER 1844 -1889 Born in Paris, Tavernier spent his childhood in England and began his art career in France. He became an illustator in London, New York, and San Francisco, where he became well known as a painter, especially of American Indian subjects. The Taverneirs followed the family of Joseph Strong, step-son-in -law of Robert Louis Stevenson, when they came to Hawai'i in 1884. During his five years of painting in Hawai'i previous to his death, Tavernier found the Kilauea Volcano to be an actively co-operative subject, along with other island scenery. His paintings are to be found in the collections of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. ++++++++++++++ TOWNSEND ELIJAH TAYLOR 1818 -1883 Born in La Grange, New York, aylor graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont in 1844 and Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1847. In that year he married Persis Goodale Thurston, daughter of the pioneer missionary, Asa Thurston. She had gone to the United States to gain an education and later taught at Mount Holyoke Seminary. The Taylors arrived at Lahaina in 1848 and he preached there until assigned to Honolulu in 1851. After serving at the Honolulu Bethel for a year, he became pastor of the Second Foreign Church ( afterward Fort Street Church ) from 1852 to 1854. They later moved for health reasons to California The Taylors had six children. ++++++++++++. ARMINE VON TEMPSKI 1899-1943 Born on a Mau'i ranch, Armine was the granddaughter of a Polish political exile, Major Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky, who was killed in the Maori wars in New Zealand. Her father, Louis von Tempsy, came to Hawai'i at the age of eighteen and became manager of the 60,000 acre Haleakala Ranch. Armine spent her childhood, along with her younger sister Gwen, on the slopes of the titanic crater of " The House of the Sun." her account of growing up in the saddle " Born in Paradise " tells of wide mountain pastures, vocanoes and tdal waves, viewing a cattle drive, rodeos and festivities, roping wild cattle, driving herds into the surf and loading them on a off shore steamer, and sharing the life of a ranching family. Armine and her sister, accompanied Jack London and his wife Charmain on a pack trip through Haleakala Crater in 1908 and he encouraged her efforts to become a published writer. +++++++++++++ ANTHONY TEN EYCK 1810-1867 Born in Watertown, New York, Ten Eyck studied law and opened anoffice in Detroit in 1835. Ten years later, he was appinted commissioner to Hawai'i by President Polk, replacing the obdurate George Brown, and was empowered to makea treaty with the Kingdom. In Honolulu, Ten Eyck rented the home of Capt. John Dominis as the United States Legation and gave it the name of Washington Place; it is at present the official residence of the Governors of the State of Hawai'i. Ten Eyck argued unsuccessfully to have the goverment permit foreigners to hold land titles in fee simple and to give American consuls the right to nominate juriors in civil and criminal cases. Negotiations reached an impasse in December, 1848, and Ten Eyck was replaced by Charles Eames. Ten Eyck served during the civil war as paymaster of volunteers and was mustered out with the rank of Major. +++++++++++++ RICHARD DARTON THOMAS 1777 -1851 Rear Admiral Thomas, R.N., led inthe restoration of the monarchy after the rule of Lord George Paulet. The Admiral arrived in his ship Dublin on July 26, 1843. During a colorful ceremony on July 31, the Hawai'ian flag was once more raised over the islands. At a thanksgiving service at Kawaiahao Church, Kamehameh III is said to have uttered the words that are still the motto of the State of Hawai'i; " The life of the land is preserved in righteousness." Thomas remained in the islands for the following six months, until the arrival of cosul General William Miller. Thomas was greatly liked by the people, and the site of the restoration in Honolulu still bears the name of Thomas Square. +++++++++++++ THOMAS GEORGE THRUM 1842 -1932 Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Thrum was brought by is parents to Hawai'i at the age of eleven. He clerked in stores and worked on the Koloa Plantation. He took over the stationary and news firm of Blac & Auld in Honolulu in 1870. He began a publishing career in 1875 by issuing the first Hawai'ian Almanac and Annual, a standard reference work that appeared under his editorhip for the rest of his lif. With James J. Williams, he founded in 1888 a monthly magazine called "Paradise of the Pacific, " which was incorporated in 1966 into the present Honolulu Magazine. Thrum was a leading writer on Hwai'ian archeology and folklore. He located and listed more than five hundred heiaus on the islands. On the death of William De Witt Alexnder, who was editing the Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folklore of Abraham Fornander, Thrum completed and published what has been called the greatest single repository of Hawaiian folklore at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in 1921. He married Anna Laur Brown and the couple had four children. ++++++++++++ ASA THURSTON 1787-1868 Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Thurston graduated from Yale College in 1816 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1819. He and Hiram Bingham, with whom he was ordained, were leaders of the First Company selected by the American mission to work in Hawai'i A few weeks before sailing, since the men of the group had to be wedded, Asa married Lucy Goodale, a cousin of a classmate. The Thurstons, unlike most missionary couples, were fated to spend the rest of their lives in the islands. The Thurstons went first to Kailua, Hawai'i, then to Mau'i, then to O'ahu, and finally back to Kailua in 1823. he was one of the leading translators of the Bible into Hawai'ian. he worked as a missionary for forty years, returning to New England only for the period 1840 to 1842, and built schools, churches,and a following among the people. His wife Lucy (1795-1876 ), daughter of a deacon of the Congregational Church , compiled in her old age ( she lived until the centenial of the Declaration of Independence ) one of the most vivid accounts of the arly mission days in Hawai'i. The Thurstons with five children began a family prominent in the history of the islands up to the present. +++++++++++++ LORRIN ANDREWS THURSTON 1858 -1931 Born in Honolulu, grandson of Asa Thurston and son of Asa Goodale Tyerman Thurston and Sarah Andrews Thurston, Lorrin was educated at Punahou School and studied law at Columbia University. He was admitted to the bar in Honolulu in 1878. He was elected to the House of Represntatives in 1886 and to the House of Nobles in 1892. Thurston was named minister of the interior in 1887 and began a lifelong interest in developing parks in the islands. He built the first road to the Volcano House on Hawai'i, later put up the first modern hotel on that site, fostered the Kilauea Observatory, and helped to set aside Haleakala and Kilauea as federal reserves. Thurston was a leader in the revolution of 1893, and on January 18 left for Washington,D.C., to serve the Provisinal Government as envoy etraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. He stayed for two years, assisting to a large extent in paving the way for annexation of Hawai'i by the United States. He again was appointed as annexation commissioner in 1898. From 1899 until 1915 Thurston engeged in plantation and railway development; with B.F. Dillingham, he promoted the Kihei, Mau'i. and Olaa, Hawai'i Plantations He organized and served as vice president of the Honolulu Rapid Transit Co., which brought the first electric streetcars to the city. In 1900 he became publsiher of the Honolulu Advertiser, a daily paper that is still under the management of a descendant. Thurston married twice: first to Margaret Clara Shipman of Hilo, by whom he had a son, Robert Simpson Thurston, and then to Harriet Potter, by whom he had a son, Lorrin Potter Thurston, who carried on the publishing tradition, and a daughter, Margaret Carter Thurston, who married William Twigg-Smith. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To be continued in Part 36 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan77nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 12.2 Kb