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To: fish hawk
Maui huh? Just a tidbit of historical info for you: Alfred Stedman Hartwell was Bvt. Brig. General of the 55th Massachusetts during the Civil War. In 1868 he was offered the post of First Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii by King Kamehameha V. When Kalakaua ascended the throne in l874, he requested that Hartwell serve as his Attorney General. Reluctant at first, Hartwell finally assented but would serve for only one year in this capacity and resigned to enter private law practice. Besides law, he also busied himself by dabbling in other enterprises and serving on various commissions and boards. For a while, he edited the Hawaiian Gazette newspaper and served on the Board of Trustees for the Planters’ Labor and Supply Company, organized for the express purpose of overseeing the sugar industry. In l890 he would propose the construction of cables between Hawaii and California, and Hawaii and Japan and he would serve as President of the Pacific Cable Company.

During the annexation of Hawaii, he served as an advisor to President Dole and as a general counsel to Washington. In the summer of 1904, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Hawaii and three years later was named Chief Justice there. He retired from the court in 1911 and died on Aug. 30, 1912. He's buried with his wife (the daughter of an American Missionary) in Nuuanu Cemetery.

There's one other thing that I haven't been able to confirm. According to a letter from his son, Hartwell was responsible for loaning money to a consortium to dredge Pearl Harbor so it could become a Naval Base. He had long proposed the annexation of Pearl Harbor as he believed it to be of prime importance to the defense of the United States.

137 posted on 11/13/2004 10:01:00 AM PST by mass55th ("If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?"----Abe Lincoln (1809-1865))
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To: mass55th

Thanx, I never knew any of that. Aloha


143 posted on 11/13/2004 12:55:15 PM PST by fish hawk
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