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Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani served as the eighth reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom--second of the Kalākaua line--from 1891-1893. On 17 January 1893, leaders of a coup dʻetat declared an abrogation of the Hawaiian monarchy and the creation of a provisional government for the Hawaiian Islands. A struggle over rule, legitimacy, and assets--both governmental and private—was launched that involved diplomatic and political relations in Hawaiʻi and abroad. Her Hawaiian Majesty Queen Liliʻuokalani passed on 11 November 1917 and was buried at Mauna ʻAla, the Royal Mauseleum of Hawaiʻi in Nuʻanu Valley, Oʻahu.

Biographical Sketch

1859--Born, September 18, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Learned well drilling business from father at oil wells in West Virginia.
1882--Arrived in Honolulu, went into business with brothers John A. and James S. McCandless drilling artesian wells for sugar and rice plantations.
1887--Formed partnership, McCandless Bros.; drilled more than 700 wells on Oahu, many in Ewa district of island.
1898--Elected to House of Representatives of Republic of Hawaii as Republican from Fifth District of west and north Oahu.
1902--Elected to Territorial Senate for a 4-year term as Republican from Third District (Oahu); appointed to committee to investigate Department of Public Lands during Special Session of 1902; to Committee on Public Lands and Internal Improvements during regular session of 1903; to Committee on Finance in Special Session of 1904; and to Committee on Public Expenditures during regular session of 1905. Initiated legislation to introduce Torrens Land Court system to Hawaii.
1904--Married Elizabeth J. Cartwright, May 24.
1906--Ran for Territorial Senate as a Republican from 4th district.
1907--Formed partnership in McCandless Building. Also owned Armstrong and McCandless building.
1908-1918--Ran for Delegate to Congress as a Democrat.
1909--Testified before Committee on Territories of U.S. House on Hawaii public lands and the homestead laws, December 9.
1913, 1918--Candidate for appointment to Territorial governor.
1933-1934--Served as Hawaii’s elected Delegate to U.S. Congress as a Democrat; served on Committees on Coinage, Weights and Measures; Agriculture; Merchant Marine, Radio and Fisheries; Military Affairs; Naval Affairs; Post Office and Post Roads; Public Lands; and Territories; introduced bills to increase lands of Hawaiian Homes Commission, to repeal the Federal liquor control laws in Hawaii, and for statehood.
1935--Appointed President, Territorial Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry; resigned October.
1940--Died, October 5, Hawaii.

August 13, 1863, born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Lloyd and Sarah Elizabeth Elmes Kent Briggs. Attended Boston Latin School and Chauncey Hall School to prepare for entrance to medical school. In Autumn 1879, allowed to take first year lectures at Harvard Medical School although too young to matriculate.
1880, arrived in Honolulu on bark Amy Turner; studied medicine and worked with Dr. McGrew. Voyage was to recover from Tuberculosis.
January 4, 1881, appointed Deputy Vaccinating Officer (for smallpox) for Island of Oahu; also worked in Kona [Hawai‘i Island]
May 10, 1881, left Honolulu on City of Sydney for San Francisco, California.
June 1, 1905, married Mary Tileston Cabot at Brookline, Massachusetts.
February 28, 1941 died in Tucson, Arizona. Buried at Hanover Center Cemetery, Hanover, Massachusetts.

Loch View Cemetery was founded by the Hawaiian Cemetery Association, Ltd. on December 22, 1900, and burials began in January, 1901 at Remond Grove, Pearl City, Oahu on approximately 17 acres of land. The name "Loch View" appears on these records only in July, 1903 and continued in use until ca. 1937. Prior to that time the cemetery was called Pearl City Cemetery.

The cemetery started with separate sections for Protestants, Catholics, Japanese, Chinese and Fraternal Societies.

Loch View Cemetery fell into disuse ca. 1930, and in October, 1934, it lost its right to operate as a cemetery (i.e., to use the land for burials) under its agreement with Oahu Railway and Land Co., from whom it first bought the land in December, 1900.

The Long Term Care Channeling Demonstration Project Office (LTCCDPO) was established under the Director of Social Services and Housing to manage Hawaii’s participation in a federal long term care channeling project which was funded from January, 1981 to May, 1984. The Hawaii demonstration project, integral to LTCCDPO, was named “Project Malama,” and commenced operations on May 15, 1982. The project was intended to demonstrate that elderly who were at most risk of institutionalization could continue to live at home, or have their institutionalization delayed, if care was “channeled” to them. In practice, the distinction between LTCCDPO and Project Malama became blurred over time, and the two entities were often referred to as “LTCCDPO/Project Malama.”

The project director was assisted by an advisory committee, appointed by the Director of Social Services and Housing, which made suggestions regarding goals and procedures; served as a link between the project and the health care community; assisted in inter-agency coordination; and recommended additional areas for study.

Hawaii was not selected to remain in the federal project beyond 1983, but Project Malama continued in existence, and continued to channel long term care, as a recipient of funds administered by the City and County of Honolulu’s Elderly Affairs Division (EAD), creating an unusual situation where a State agency reported as a contractor to a City agency. Concurrently, because the federal demonstration project was over, LTCCDPO was renamed Long Term Care Channeling Project Office (LTCCPO). In July 1987 LTCCPO was renamed Long Term Care Channeling Office (LTCCO) and placed (along with its operational component, Project Malama) in the Public Welfare Division (renamed Family and Adult Services Division (FASD) in 1988) of the Department of Human Services (DHS). At the same time, LTCCO began to receive funding under the DHS appropriation in the State budget. Despite this, Project Malama continued as a contractor to EAD through 1990. Throughout these changes in organizational relations and funding sources, up until its disestablishment the office remained responsible for providing case management services to eligible frail and disabled elderly living at home.

Reverend Lorrin Andrews was born on April 29, 1795 in Connecticut. He graduated from Jefferson College and Princeton Theological Seminary. He married Mary Ann Wilson in 1827. Rev. and Mrs. Andrews were in the Third Company of missionaries sent to Hawai‘i by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions (ABCFM) arriving on March 30, 1828.

Rev. Andrews was assigned to the mission in Lahaina, Maui, established by Rev. William Richards in 1823. Andrews and Richards founded the Lahainaluna Seminary in 1831. Andrews was selected to run the school.

In 1842, Andrews left the ABCFM mission and in 1845, moved to Honolulu. Andrews was appointed by Oahu Governor Mataio Kekuanaoa to be judge of foreign cases despite the lack of formal law training. There were very few western lawyers in the Hawaiian Kingdom at that time. In 1846, Andrews served as secretary of the King's Privy Council.

In 1852, the first Hawaiian Kingdom Supreme Court was established with William Little Lee serving as Chief Justice and John Papa I‘i and Andrews serving as Associate Justices.

In 1854, Andrews was also licensed to conduct marriage ceremonies.

In 1855, Andrews resigned from the Supreme Court and became Judge of Probate Court.

On September 29, 1868, Andrews passed away in Honolulu and was buried at Oahu Cemetery.

Lucy C Vrooman was born on May 4, 1878 in Brisbane, Australia to Missionary parents Rev. Daniel Vrooman and Anna Rosa Vrooman. She was educated in San Francisco; graduate nurse from French Hospital in San Francisco and later studied medicine received her degree as a physician from Stanford Medical School.
She came to Hawaii in July 1907. She met and married William Jonathan Cooper on August 3, 1907.
In 1911, they moved to Maui where Will J. Cooper became the editor of Maui News. They homesteaded land at Haiku, Maui.
In February 1923, they moved to Oahu where they purchased land at Hauula and started a ranch which developed into Cooper's Ranch Inn. They operated this ranch-hotel for over twenty years.
On September 23, 1947, Lucy Vrooman Cooper died in Honolulu.

Mandated Benefits Advisory Task Force was created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 129, House Draft No. 1, Senate Draft No. 1, Conference Draft No. 1, to advise the 2002 Legislature on the problems surrounding Hawaii’s mandated benefits and the legislative process enacting them. The Resolution also instructed the Task Force to recommend legislation on the mandated benefit process as well as legislation for the establishment of a permanent advisory panel to review mandated benefits. The Task Force was chaired by the Insurance Commissioner, who was required to appoint one representative from the following seven specific areas: licensed registered nurses, licensed physicians, alternative complementary care service providers, professional medical associations, health plans, consumer advocate groups, and members of the business community.

Maria Patton Chamberlain was born in 1803-03-03 in Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She arrived in Honolulu on the Parthian from Boston on 1828-03-30 as part of the third company of missionaries sent to Hawai‘i by the ABCFM. Patton was a teacher and one of 4 single ladies in the company. She married Levi Chamberlain in Lahaina on 1828-09-01. They had 8 children. She died in Honolulu on 1880-01-19 and is buried at Kawaiaha‘o Church Cemetery.