Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - part 36. October 19, 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, 12:47 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands October 19, 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 19, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 36 by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 36 Important People REUBEN TINKER 1799 -1854 Born in Chester, Massachusetts, Tinker graduated from Amherst Colege in 1827 and from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1830. He married Mary Throop Wood in November of tat year and the couple sailed with the Fourth Company of American missionaries in December. Tinker was stationed at Lahaina as seaman's chaplain for a few months ad after visiting the Marquesas Islands in 1832 was assigned to Wailuku, Mau'i, until 1834. From 1834 to 1838 he was in Honolulu as editor of the Hawai'ian language publications Kuma Hawai'i and Kuma Kamalii, and was editor of the Hawai'ian Spectator, a 100 page literary quarterly which began publication in January, 1838, conducted by an association of gentlemen. The Tinkers left for the United States in Octobe, 1840, and were released from the Boston Mission soon after arrival. The family had seven children. +++++++++++++++r LEGOARANT DE TROMELIN As Rear Admiral in the French Navy, Tromelin arrived off Honolulu in April 1848, in command of two vessels, La Poursuivante and the steam-corvette Gassendi. The Admiral sent Kamehameha III, ten demands that included everything from equality of worship to the punishment of impious schoolboys. To enforce these, he landed troops that took over the government buildings, smashed everything in the Fort, and seized the King's yacht. The ships departed after ten days, taking along the French consul, Guillaume Patrice Dillon, whose complaints had brought the demonstration. ++++++++++++ GEORGE P. TROUSSEAU 1833 -1894 Born in Paris, son of a famed physician, Trousseau graduated from the Ecole de Medicine in that city, served in the French Army, and arrived in Honolulu in 1872 by way of Australia. He was apointed to the new Board of Health by King Lunalilo and, given control of measures against their recent smallpox epidemic, managed to limit the deaths to seventeen. On his advice, in 1873 the first effort was made to segregate lepers. Trousseau acted as physician of Lunalilo and was the confidant of two later monarchs. He not only practiced medicine at the O'ahu Insane Asylum, Queen's Hospital, O'ahu Prison, and the Port of Honolulu, but was interested in rearing sheep at Kona, sugar at Hamakua, and ostrichs at Waikiki. He helped to organize a yachting revival in the islands in 1889. ++++++++++++++ UMI Umi, son of Liloa, was probably the most famous of the early chiefs. His story has been called " one of the most popular of all Hawai'ian prose sagas of heroes, embellished but still preserving the thread of historical accuracy." He was conceived by Liloa on his travels,who left with the child several recognition tokens that the young man later brought to his father. The opressive older brother Hakau was stoned to death, and Umi left his poverty and became a ruling chief of the island of Hawai'i. He kept up the worship of the Gods and increased the practice of human sacrifice. He was succeeded by his son, Keliokaloa. ++++++++++++++ GEORGE VANCOUVER 1758 -1798. Vancouver entered the Royal Navy at the age of thirteen. He served as an able seaman during the second Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook and was a midshipman during Cook's fateful death on the third voyage. In September, 1789, he was appointed to head an exploring expedition to the South Seas, to repossess the fur-rich Nootka Sound region and to seek, as Cook had done, the Northwest Passage. His ships were the sloop Discovery ( not the same vessel which he had sailed for Cook), and the Chatham, commanded at first by Lieutenant Wiiliam Robert Broughton and later by Lieutenant Peter Puget. A supply vessel, the Daedalas, met the squadron twice. While spending two years charting and naming the coasts north of San Francisco, Vancouver and his crews passed three winters in Hawai'i between 1792 and 1794. Vancouver was the most important visitor to the islands during the reign of Kamehameha I and gave a number of valuable descriptions of the life at this period. On his second visit his ships brought cattle and sheep, as well as goats and geese. The following year he learned that the king had separated from his favorite wife, Kaahumanu, who was suspected of dalliance with Kaiana, and arranged to reunite the pair. He helped the King's carpenter to finish building a sailing ship, but spoke out strongly against the trade in defective arms and ammunition that foreigners were carrying on among the chiefs. Vancouver obtained from Kamehameha what the Englishmen called a ' cession " of the Big Island to Great Britain. This agreement was never ratified, nevertheless, English influence was foremost in the islands in the early years. Vancouver returned to London in October 1795, and in ill health spent the remaining months of his life preparing his journals for publication. ++++++++++++ CHARLES-VICTOR CROSNIER DE VARIGNY 1829-1899 Born in Versailles, France, and educated at the Lycee Bourbon, Varigny left his country as one of three agents in charge of a party of emigrants bound for California after the Revolution of 1848. On arrival in San Francisco he married a fellw passenger, Louise Constantin (1828 to 1894 ), andfor two years was editor of a California newspaper. The couple arrived in Honoulu in 1855 on his way back to France and he decided to reman as interpreter, secretary, and finally acting French consul. He resigned his post when he was appointed by Kamehameha V as minister of finance in 1863, replacing R.C. Wyllie as minister of foreign affairs in 1865. He took an active part in drafting the constitution of 1864 and endorsed the King's intention to sign a reciprocity treaty with the United States. In 1868 the Varigny family, including a son and two daughters born in Honolulu, returned to France. +++++++++++++ HERMANN J.F. VON HOLT 1830-1867 Born in Hamburg, the founder of the Hawai'i branch of the family came to Honolulu in 1851 with a cargo of merchandise and stayed to open a successful store. He married Alice Brown and the couple had one son and two daughters. +++++++++++++ CONRADE CARL VON HAMM 1870-1965 Born in Bremen, Germany, Von Hamm attended the Realschule in that city and went to wok in the Deutschen Bank in 1885. As the result of correspondence with his cousin William Maertens, senior partner in the importing firm of Hoffschlaeger & Co. of Honolulu, about their mutual interest in collecting stamps, Von Hamm came to Honolulu in 1891 to work for his cousin's firm. He was offered partnership after ten years, but instead Von Hamm launched hs own business in 1899 with Archibald A. Young and Alexander Young under the name of Von Hamm- Young Co., Ltd. The company lost extensively in the Chinatown fire in 1900 but carried on. They imported automobiles and gasoline, and in 1907 opened a garage. The business thrived, and branches were opened in Hilo and on Mau'i and Kaua'i. Von Hamm became president of the company in 1925 and chairman of the board in 1942, and retired in 1958, He estimated his personal wealth at twenty million dollars in 1964. In 1898, he married Ida Bernice Young, daughtr of Alexander Young, and the marriage lasted sixty-five years, until her death in 1963. The couple had two daughters. ++++++++++ LIONEL WALDEN 1861 -1933 Born in Norwich, Connecticut, walden attended school in Boston and was an art student of Carolus Duran in paris. he first exhibited his work at the Paris Dalon in 1877 and later became known intrnationally especially for his unusual seascapes and nudes. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honar of France in 1910. he came to Hawai'i in 1911, enamoured of the landscapes and seascapes of the islands. His works received numerous honors. Several of his pictures were bought by the British and French governments for national museums and galleries, including his famous Hawai'ian canvas " Sea Breaking over the Reef." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To be continued in part 37. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan78nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 9.1 Kb