Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - part 37. October 20, 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, 12:48 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands October 20, 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 20, 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - part 37 by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 37 Important People CURTIS PERRY WARD A Southerner who came to the islands in 1860, Ward married Victoria Robinson. Their home and estate, named Old Plantation, was on King Street at the site that became the Neal F. Blaisdell Center. The Ward Estate pocessed much of the area near the waterfront called Kakaako. ++++++++++++++ JOHN THOMAS WATERHOUSE, JR 1845 -1904 Born in Tasmania, grandson of a Methodist missionary, the boy cae to Hawai'i in 1851 with his father, John Thomas Waterhouse, Sr. The father engaged in various enterprises, such as the Waterhouse Investment Co., the W.W. Dimond firm, and the H. May & Co. The son entered business and established the commercial and financial firm of Waterhous Trust Co., with interests in insurance, brokerage, real estate, and investment. He inherited his father's annexationist views and promoted them while serving in the legislature under the monarchy, the Provisional Government, and the Republic. More comfortable in Hawai'ian than in English, Waterhouse preached regularly for ten years to the Kaumakapili congregation and from 1899 until his death was superintendant of the Kawaiahao Sunday School. He was an officer of the Central Union Church from its inception, a founder and trustee of the First Methodist Church, and a Trustee of the Sailor's Home, the Lunalilo Home and Queen's Hospital, of which he was also treasurer. John Thomas Waterhouse Jr. married Elizabeth B. Pinder and their sons, George S. and John Waterhouse became prominent in the business scene in the islands. +++++++++++++ JOHN WEBBER 1752 -1793 Webber, son of a Swiss sculptor living in England, was engaged by the British Admiralty to accomapny Captain James Cook on his third voyage " in order to make drawings and paintings ----to give a more perfect idea thereof than be formed by written descriptions only." His many sketches and paintings were the first visual records of Hawai'i, and his skill was applauded by Sir Joshua Reynolds. After returning to England in October 1780, Webber was employed by the Admiiralty to supervise the engraving of the sixty-one views appearing in the Atlas of the four year voyage, published in 1784. Later Webber published privately a series of more interesting colored views. He was elected to the prestigious Royal Academy and is remembered for having provided the most prolific illustration of any sea voyage previous to the invention of photography. +++++++++++++ WILLIAM DRAKE WESTERVELT 1849 -1939 Born in Oberlin, Ohio, Westervelt received both a A.B. and B.D. degree from Oberlin College. After serving as pastor of various churches on the mainland he came to Hawai'i in 1889 for two years to study mission achievements, and returned to stay in 1899. In 1905 he married Caroline Dickinson Castle of the missionary family By daily study with a native Hawai'ian and diligent research, Westervelt made himself an authority on the ancient customs, beliefs, history, and legends of Hawai'i. He was also a pioneer stamp collector. Between 1900 and 1925 he published more than a hundred articles in Honolulu periodicals and annuals, and from these he selected and edited enogh material for half a dozens books on Hawai'ian legends, published between 1910 and 1923. +++++++++++++ DAVID M. WESTON In 1851, Weston devised a centrifical machine for separating sugar from molasses, which shortened the time of this process from weeks to minutes. Moreover, the superior grade of sugar thus produced sold for a better price. With the support of Henry A. Peirce in 1853, Weston opened a prosperous machine shop in downtown Honolulu and founded the Honolulu Iron Works. +++++++++++++ CHARLES HINCKLEY WETMORE 1820 -1898 Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, Wetmore graduated in 1846 from the Berkshire Medical Institute, Massachusetts. He married Lucy Sheldon Taylor in September 1848, and the couple sailed a month later for Hawai'i. They were stationed in 1849 at Hilo, where Wetmore served for six years as a missionary and governmant physician. Wetmore became Hilo's first druggist, after his wife helped himconcoct simple home remedies in great demand among Hawai'ians, foreign residents, and seamen. In 1855, Dr. Wetmore took his first patient in his Seaman's Hospital in Hilo, which he directed for ten years. Mrs.Wetmore, who bore five children, in 1850 started an important school for part-Hawai'ian children. The doctor and hs wife wre students of natural science. he invested in early sugar plantations near Hilo and in the first caronated beverage plant in Hilo. In 1881 the Mauna Loa lava flow came within one mile of his home, and stopped only when Princess Ruth threw a white chicken into the flow with a prayer. The last medical missionary to Hawai'i died May 13, 1898, ninety days before the annexation of the islands by the United States. ++++++++++++++ HENRY MARTYN WHITNEY 1824-1904 Born in Waimea, Kaua'i, a son of Samuel Whitney, Henry went to Rochester, new York for schooling in 1831 but suffered a hearing loss and gave up thoughts of college. This pioneer commercial printer and publisher in Hawai'i learned the printer's trade and worked in New York City with Harper & Brothers. He married Catherine Olivia March in June 1849, and in November the couple arrived in Hawai'i. Whitney set up the first post office in Hawai'i in 1850 and was postmaster until 1886. he put out stamps with values of two, five, and thriteen cents; these were the " Missonaries" that are among the rarest collectors' items today. When mission press closed down in 1858, Whitney, who had recently set up his own printing and publishing company, was employed to do all future mission work on a commercial basis. Presses, type, and furniture were sold to him for $1,000, which he was to pay for in future printed matter. He put out half a dozen important volumes, and in 1856 founded the weekly Pacific Commercial Advertiser, forerunner of the current daily Honolulu Advertiser, but in 1870 sold it to Black & Auld. He also established a weekly Hawai'ian language newspaper, Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, in 1860, which ran until 1927. In 1873 he acquired the Hawai'ian Gazette, which replaced the old Polynesian, and was editor of the Planter's Monthly from 1886 to 1903. In 1888 the Pacific Commercial Advertiser by then a daily, was acquired from Black & Auld by Whitney's Hawai'ian Gazette Co. He managed this firm and its publications until his retirement in 1894 Whitney served on the privy council of the Kingdom from 1873 to 1891. ++++++++++++ SAMUEL WHITNEY 1793 -1845 Whitney was born in Branford, Connecticut, and educated at Yale College and with his wife, Mercy Partridge Whitney (1795-1872 ) were menbers of the First Company of American misionaries arriving in Hawai'i in 1820. The Whiney's established the mission station at Waimea, Kaua'i, with Samuel Ruggles family. With the exception of a journey to the South Pacific in 1832, Whitney remained on Kaua'i, until he died while seeking health at Lahaina, Mau'i. Four children were born of the couple. of which were Henry Martyn Whiney, who married Caterine Olivia March; and daughter, Maria Kapule Whitney, who married John L. Pogue. Mrs Mercy Whitney remained on Kaua'i, where she died after a residence of fifty-two years, having made only one visit back to the United States. Whiney translated a number of books into Hawai'ian beween 1832 and 1836. ++++++++++++++ ELIPHALET WHITTLESLY 1816 -1889 Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Wittlesly graduated from William College, Massachusetts, and from Uion Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1843. He married Elizabeth Keene Baldwin in November of that year and the couple sailed to Hwai'i in December with the Eleventh Company of American missonaries. They were stationed at Hana, Mau'i from 1844 to 1846 and after a year at Kaupo returned to Hana from 1847 to 1854. They returned to the United States in the latter year and were released from the Boston mission after serving for a decade in mainland churches. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in Part 38 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan79nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 9.3 Kb