Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - part 39. October 22, 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, 12:49 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands October 22, 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 22, 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Ilsnads Important People - part 39. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 39. and end. Important People ALBERT S. WILLIS Appointed as United States Minister to Hawai'i by President Grover Cleveland to replace John L. Stevens, Willis arrived on November 4, 1893, with instructions to try to restore the former Queen, Lili'uokalani, to the throne. When his efforts failed to get her to allow clemency for those who had accomplished the bloodless revolution, Willis was notified in January 1894, that his mission was ended and that matters were hensefoth in the hands of Congress. +++++++++++++ JENNIE WILSON Born as Ana Kini Kapahuhula-o-Kamamalu Kuulani , she was a dancer at the court of King Kalakaua, who taught her the hula and the playing of the ukulele. She joined a theatrical unit in 1892 and toured the mainland and Europe, where she preformed for royalty and chiefs of state. She married John Henry Wilson in 1908 and moved to Pelekuna Valley, Molokai, to engage in the growing of Taro. She was a leader in the Ahahui Kaahumnu and her husband was mayor of Honolulu and she was " honorary first lady." ++++++++++++++ JOHN HENRY WILSON 1861-1956 Descended on both sides from early settlers in Hawai'i and Tahiti ( his mother was a granddaughter of Captain Blanchard, who brought the Thaddus to Hawai'i in 1820 with the first American missonaries), Wilson was reared with the royal family at the Waikiki residence of Lili'uokalani and spoke fluent Hawai'ian. He was educated in the schools of Honolulu and graduated with the first class from Stanford University in 1895. Wilson began his engineering career with the O'ahu Railway and land Co., the following year. In 1897 he was with the Department of Public Works under the Republic and became a partner with L.M. Whitehouse in a private firm. Wilson and Whitehouse were engineers for the construction of the Pali Road over the Koolau Range above Honolulu. Whitehouse left the firm in 1900 but Wilson continued contracting work until 1919. He supervised the construction of the O'ahu Railway grade around Kaena Pint and built the Honolulu outfall sewer, the Lahaina wateworks system, and the first macadam roads on Mau'i and Kaua'i. Wilson was made city engineer of Honolulu in 1919 and in 1920 ; was appointed mayor to succeed Joseph James Fern, He mrried Jennie Kapahu Wilson in 1908. The Wilson Tunnel on Likelike Highway bears his name. ++++++++++++ JONATHAN WINSHIP Jonathan and his brother Nathan are considered, along with Captain William Heath Davis, as pioneers in the Sandalwood trade. Jonathan made his first trading voyage from New England to the Northwest Coast and China in the ship O'Cain in 1803, and in 1805 commanded this ship on the Northwest Coast.With his brother as chief mate, Jonathan arrived in O'ahu in the spring of 1806 to trade with the Hawai'ians, and returned there in October. Nathan returned to O'ahu as captain of the Albatross in the spring of 1810 and brought King Kaumualii from Kaua'i to Honolulu to cede his island to Kamehameha I after his death. The brothers visited O'ahu again in the winter of 1811, with Nathan commanding the Albatross and Jonathan commanding the O'Cain. Along with a cargo of furs they took a load of sandalwood, part of which was for the account of the King Kamehameha. The ruler was pleased with his share of the returns and on July 12, 1812, granted the Winships along with Captain Davis, an exclusive ten year sales contract for all the sandalwood cut in the islands, except Kaua'i. Various chiefs on whose lands the woods were cut were not included in the contract. Five shiploads sold at Canton in 1813 brought a high price. At home in Honolulu, the Winships were neighbors of the Spanish settler Francisco de Paula Marin. The war of 1812 between the United States and Britain interfered with the sandalwood trade, and after the 1813 voyage the King cancelled the contract. However, Sandalwood was the main source of island income for the next fifteen years. The brothers returned to Boston in 1816 and retired from sea. +++++++++++ ROBERT W. WOOD Wood was born, it is believed in Augusta , Maine. He graduated from Waterville College and obtained a medical degree from Bowdoin College in 1832. He arrived in Honolulu in 1839 and for a decade was head of the American Seaman's Hospital in that city. He was also doing a profitable business in selling drugs and medcal and surgical supplies to visiting ships. Wood was the principal creditor of Ladd & co., pioneer planters on the island of Kaua'i. When the mission of Peter H.Brinsmde failed, Wood took over the management .of the Koloa Planntation in 1844 and placed it on a firmer foundatin. he also financed the East Mau'i Plantation in partnersip with A.H. Spencer in 1849; there he hired a young mechanic, David M. Weston, whose invention in 1851 of a centrifugal method of separating sugar from molasses revolutionized the industry. Wood opened Honolulu's first public pharmacy in 1848. He also owned ships and a mercantile business. He became a very wealthy man. ++++++++++++ SAMUEL EDWIN WOOLLEY 1859 -1925 Born in Salt Lake City of pioneer Morman ancestors, Woolley worked on his father's farm in Utah until he was sent to Hawai'i in 1880 and spent four years at the colony at Laie, O'ahu. In 1895 he took charge of the Laie Plantation and served as president of the Latter Day Saint's Hawai'ian mission in its work thoughout the territory. He was a skillful organizer whose efforts markedly successful in a back to the soil movement among native Hawai'ians and mainlanders. Woolley established credt for the church among the businessmen of the islands, and during his presidency the landmark Morman Temple at Laie was planned and erected; his son Ralph E. Woolley supervised the construction, which was constructed and completed in 1919. He married Alice Rowberry in Utah in 1885 and the couple had five children, several of which carried on careers in Hawai'i. +++++++++++++++ ROBERT CRICHTON WYLLIE 1798 -1865 Wyllie was bron at hazelbank, Ayrshire, Scotland, and at the age of twelve entered the University of Glasgow. he went to sea as ship's doctor, and later was a sucessful merchant in South America and mexico, and then a prominent businessman in London. When General William Miller was appointed British consul general in Honolulu, he invited his friend Wyllie to go there with him. Not long after Wyllie arrived in March 1844, he replaced Miller for a year during Miller's travels. Wyllie's business talent qualifed him to erve in the cabinet of Kamehameha III, and be was minister of foreign affairs from 1845 until his death. Wyllie was one of the foremost men in the kingdom for almost twenty years, but he always kept his Scottish appearance and speech. He wa a bust writer of letters. In 1862 he left his Presbyterian faith to join the newly founded Episcopal Church of Hawai'i. For ten years he took the lead in seeking to make treaties that would make clear the relations of the kingdom with other nations of the world. He was owner of th large Princeville Plantation on the north shore of Kaua'i, a ranch named for Prince Albert. +++++++++++ ALEXANDER YOUNG 1832 -1910 Born in Blackburn, Sotland, Young became a machinist and mechanical engineer. He married Ruth Pearce in 1860 and the couple sailed around Cape Horn to Vancouver Island, where he was to spend five years building and operating a sawmill. They arrived in Hawai'i in 1865, and Young formed a partnership with William Lidgate to operate a foundry and machine shop at Hilo. He then moved to Honolulu and bought an interest in the Honolulu Iron Works, continuing in this business for thirty two years. He alo invested in sugar plantations; he was president of the Waiakea Mill Co and had interest in Kakuku Plntation. During the onarchy, he was a member of the house of nobles in 1889, and after the Revolution of 1893 he was inister of the interior in the cabinet ofPresident Sanford B. Dole. In 1900, when Hawai'i became a part of the United States, Young began construction of the Alexander Young Building, mainly for use as a hotel; it was completed in 1903. In 1905 he bought the Moana Hotel on Waikiki Beach and later the Hawai'ian Hotel, located at Richards and Hotel Streets. At about the same time he branched into the automobile buiness, and along with his son-in-law Conrad Carl Von Hamm and other formed the Von Hamm-Young co. The Alexander youngs had nine children including Archibald Alfed Young, who followed in his father''s business footsteps. ++++++++++++ JOHN YOUNG ( OLOHANA ) 1749 -1835 Young was the English boatswain of a small American fur-trading vessel, Eleanora, in 1790. Off the coast of Mau'i, the ship was attacked and the captain, Simon Metcalfe, punishd the Hawai'ians severely. Lateroff the Big Island at Kawaihae, Young --whose boatswain call of " All Hands !" gave him the nickname of "Olohaa" -- was ashore when the Fair American, commanded by Metcalf's eighteen year old son Thomas, was captured and only only one of the six members of the crew, Isaac Davis, was saved. Young was detained ashore and thereafter Kamehameha I trusted both Young and Davis to advise him on the ways of people from overseas, and both took importat roles in history. Both manned large guns mounted on canoes when the chief invaded the northern side of the island of Hawai'i, and later were in charge of the cannons dring the attack in O'ahu. Young married Kaonaeha ( Melie Kuamoo), a niece of Kamehameha, and held landed estates on five islands. He served a governor of several of the islands, and helped to repel the ussian filabusters under Dr. George Anton Scheffer. Young took part in all major canges in the islands as an elder statesman, joining in the overthrow of the ancient tabus in 1819. He did not object to the landing of the American missionaries in 1820 but feared that rivalry might grow between theUnited States and Great Britain, which at the time was supposed to hold a protectorate over the kingdom. Young also foresaw the decline of the native population through wars and disease. He died in 1835 and and in 1865 his body was placed in the Royal Mausoleum. His granddaughter reigned as Queen Emma. ++++++++++++ JOHN II YOUNG (KEONI ANA ) 1810 -1857 Son of John Young and the chiefess Kaonaeha, Keoni Ana, as he was called, was born at Kawaihae, Hawai'i. He married Alapai and succeeded Kekauluoki as kuhina nui, or prime minister from 1845 to 1854. He also served as governor of Mau'i, minister of the interior, Chamberlain of the king's household, and Supreme Court Justice. He aided in communication between native and foreign elements in the community. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ End. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan81nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 11.9 Kb