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1870-1872. Honolulu, Oahu. Merchant Street
1871-1872. Wailuku, Maui.
First Chinese photographer in Hawaii.

William Pitt Leleiōhoku was born on March 31, 1821 in Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i Island to one of Kalanimoku's wives, Kiliwehi, a daughter of Kamehameha Paiea. He was married in November 25, 1835, to the Princess Nāhi‘ena‘ena when he was only 14; the princess was 6 years his senior. Nāhi‘ena‘ena died in 1836 at the age of 21. Leleiōhoku married for a second time to Princess Ruth Ke‘elikōlani. He served in the House of Nobles from 1841-1846 and also served on the Privy Council from 1845 to 1846. When his foster father Kuakini died in 1844, he inherited the governorship of Hawai‘i Island. He died on October 21, 1848 in the measles epidemic at the age of 27. He was eventually laid to rest at Mauna ‘Ala Royal Mausoleum.

Born as a Hawaiian Kingdom subject in Lāhainā, Maui. Son of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaiʻi Rev. Richard Armstrong and Clarissa Armstrong. Older brother to Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Traveled as part of company of Mōʻī (King) Kalākaua during his 1881 world tour.

William Jonathan Cooper was born to William Humes and Elizabeth (Sission) Cooper on March 22, 1876 in Cochranton, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the University of West Virginia. In 1906, he became a reporter on San Francisco Chronicle and came to Honolulu as a reporter on the Star. He married Lucy C. Vrooman, M.D. in Honolulu on August 3, 1907. In 1908, he served on the Promition Committee and represented the committee at A.-Y.-P. Exposition in Seattle in 1909. From 1910-1912, he was a reporter for the Honolulu Star. In 1912, he and Mrs. Lucy Vrooman Cooper moved to Haiku, Maui where they purchased a homestead. Cooper was appointed assistant manager of Maui Publishing Company, Ltd. and became the editor of Maui News in 1914.

Cooper served on the Territory of Hawaii Industrial Accident Board representing Maui for a 2 year term starting 1915-06-01. He was reappointed 1917-07-01 serving to 1921-09-06.

Cooper passed away on November 6, 1970.

William Harrison Rice was born October 12, 1813 in Oswego, New York to Joseph and Sally Rice. On September 28, 1840, he married Mary Sophia Hyde. Together, they arrived in Honolulu on May 21, 1841 aboard the ship Gloucester in Ninth Company of American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The Rices were teachers by training and were stationed at Hana, Maui. In 1844, the Rice family was transferred to become the first secular teachers at Punahou School in Honolulu. In 1854, the Rices resigned from Punahou and moved to Kauai where Mr. Rice was hired to manage Lihue Plantation owned by Henry Pierce and William Little Lee. William Harrison Rice died on May 27, 1862 in Lihue, Kauai.

1855 b. Honolulu
1855 graduated Yale University
1858 professor of Greek, Oahu College
1860 m. Abigail Baldwin of Lahaina.
1864 president, Oahu College
1870 charge of Bureau of Government Survey
1891 author, “A brief history of the Hawaiian people”
1896 author, "History of later years of the Hawaiian monarch and the revolution of 1893”
1896-06-24 / 1905-06-24 Commissioner of Public Instruction.
1900-06-14 to 1901-02-01 Surveyor
1905-11-06 Board of Education member. Reappointed 1887-07-07; 1894-02-19, 1895-08.
1913 d. Honolulu, Feb.21

Act 36, Session Laws of 1915, gave Governor Lucius E. Pinkham the authority to appoint a 3-man commission to collect and examine available data and information relating to water resources. It was to also conduct a study on existing laws related to the diverting, developing, using, conserving, holding and wasting of water and make recommendations and draw up any needed legislation. Arthur G. Smith, George K. Larrison, district engineer at the U. S. Geological Survey office in Honolulu, and Thomas Sedgwick, who was working as a "statistician" for the Honolulu Water Commission, received their commissions on November 16, 1915. They developed a plan of operation covering surface waters and artesian wells and retained one of the foremost water authorities, A. E. Chandler, State Water Commissioner of California, from May to November 1916, to study the legal aspects of Hawaii's water supply. His report may be found in any one of the sources listed below. R. C. Rice and R. D. Klise, both experienced hydraulic engineers employed at the local Geological Survey office, and Commissioner Sedgwick collected all
data used by the group. Although the deadline stated in the originating Act was January 1, 1917, Governor Pinkham received the Commission's report on January 25, and it was printed within that year.

Act 17 of the 2nd Special Session of 1932 explicitly vested the Board of Prison Directors with responsibility for "the entire government, control and supervision of all territorial prisons and prison camps." Concurrently, it created the position of Warden of Oahu Prison and removed responsibility for prison management from the High Sheriff.

The Homestead Laws of the Territory of Hawaii required the government to survey and lay out unoccupied public lands which 25 or more citizens had filed applications to homestead. Since the required number of applications had been received from persons interested in securing homesteads in Waiakea, Hawaiʻi, the Waiakea Mill Company lease was allowed to expire in 1918. The highly profitable sugar-producing land was divided into 216 cane and 231 house lots. Drawings were held on February 17, 1919, and February 3, 1921, to determine which of the 3,000 applicants would receive these lots. Because of the shortage of sugar, which led to the Wartime Agreements extending the Waiakea Mill Company's control over future crops, the first group of homesteaders weren't able to take possession of their lots until the end of March, 1919.
A majority of the homesteaders formed a "League" and appointed trustees to represent them. These trustees signed a contract on May 6, 1919, with the Hawaii Mill Company, which was shortly replaced by the League or 60/40 contract with the Waiakea Mill Company on June 27, 1919. High labor costs, lack of capital, and difficulties in cultivating crops and transporting cane were some of the problems that faced the homesteaders from the very beginning. Also, disagreements and contractual misunderstandings with the mill company and the unexpectedly low price and production of sugar resulted in many homesteaders going into debt and filing suits in the local courts from 1920 on. Things came to such a point that Governor Charles McCarthy appointed Territorial Sugar Expert Albert Horner and Public Land Commissioner Charles Bailey to investigate the situation. They presented their report to him dated March 31, 1922. Personal knowledge of the situation, confirmed by this report, prompted the Governor to bring about the preparation of the 16-Year Agreement of May 1, 1922, which was signed by individual homesteaders and the mill company as a substitute for the League contract. However, homesteaders continued to suffer financially and expressed their dissatisfaction with the terms of this new contract by appealing to the Governor and sending petitions to the legislature asking it to investigate their plight and grant them relief. Legislative hearings were held in 1924 and 1925 with different resolutions, bills and amendments introduced in the legislature. Finally on April 25, 1925, Governor Wallace Rider Farrington approved Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 1925, which created a three-member Waiakea Homestead Commission to investigate the situation, bring suits if proper to do so
in the name of the government, make recommendations and report to him the results of its work when completed. Four days later on April 29, he appointed William Goodale, Edgar Henriques and L. Thornton Lyman to the commission. They in turn elected William Goodale chairman at their first meeting on May 4, and appointed B. C. Stewart permanent secretary on June 1.