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Helen Kinau Wilder was the granddaughter of Dr. Gerrit P. Judd

Henri Berger was born Heinrich August Wilhelm Berger in Berlin, Germany on August 4, 1844. He became a member of Germany's imperial army band and worked under composer and royal bandmaster of Germany, Johann Strauss, Jr.

Berger arrived in Honolulu in June 1872 at the invitation of King Kamehameha V. In 1877, King Kalākaua appointed Berger to full leadership of the Royal Hawaiian Band. In 1879, Berger became a naturalized citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He would remain bandmaster of the Royal Hawaiian Band for almost 40 years, retiring in 1917.

He died in Honolulu on October 14, 1929, two months after his 85th birthday. His final resting place is the Kawaiaha‘o Church Cemetery.

Henry Alpheus Pierce Carter was born in Honolulu on August 7, 1837 to ship captain Joseph Oliver Carter and Hannah Lord of Massachusetts. H.A.P. Carter worked in the Hawaiian postal service and at the "Pacific Commercial Advertiser" newspaper. At 19 years of age he began work at the shipping business of C. Brewer in which he would later become a partner. In 1874 Carter was appointed as a special diplomatic envoy of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a position in which he served until his death in 1891. In the same year, he was also appointed to the Hawaiian Kingdom Privy Council. In 1876, Carter was named Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1880, he was named Minister to the Interior. He served in several other government positions including, Bureau of Immigration; Commissioner of Crown Lands; President, Board of Health; Attorney General; and the Chinese Immigration Commission.

1853 Dec. 12 born, Manchester, England.
1882 Arrived Honolulu from San Francisco; employed as bookkeeper and accountant for Grinbaum & Co.
1885 in grocery business with John K. Wilder.
July 15 married Nora Spring, in Honolulu. Six children.
1887 opened an accounting bureau.
1894 appointed deputy postmaster-general; served until 1900.
1900 office manager of Honolulu Brewery.
1902 resumed his own business, an accounting bureau.
1919 Henry F. Davis Audit Co., Ltd., incorporated.
1944 Oct. 5 died, Honolulu.

Henry Enoka Palenapa Kekahuna was born in Hana, Maui on August 6, 1881 and died on April 27, 1969 in Honolulu at the age of 87. He was a Hawaiian researcher who collaborated with Theodore Kelsey, N.B. Emerson, and other researchers.

The Organic Act of 1900 renamed the Marshal of the Hawaiian Islands as the High Sheriff and sustained the existing organization and functions of the police. Act 35 of 1905 (the "County Act") established counties within the Territory of Hawai‘i. The result of Act 39 was the place the island sheriffs within county governments and subordinate to the respective boards of supervisors, rather than to the High Sheriff. Another results was that the High Sheriff ceased concurrently to be the Sheriff of Oahu. The High Sheriff retained responsibility to appoint jailors for Oahu Prison and other territorial-level confinement facilities. At the same time, Act 41 of 1905 established boards of prison inspectors for each
judicial circuit, and made the boards responsible for jails and prisons within their circuits.
The High Sheriff was made responsible to the Board of Prison Inspectors of the First Judicial Circuit for Oahu Prison, and he was potentially responsible to other boards for territorial-level prison facilities in other circuits. The High Sheriff was de facto Warden of Oahu Prison, and he was indexed as such in the Revised Laws of Hawaii, 1925, although he was never designated as such by statute. That situation was changed by Act 17, 1st Special Session, 1932, which created a separate office of Warden of Oahu Prison and removed from the High Sheriff the responsibility for territorial prisons and prisoners. The High Sheriff continued as the Chief of Police of the Territory, responsible for the public peace, the arrest of fugitives, etc., until 1959, when his office was abolished by Act l, 2nd Special Session, 1959 (the "Reorganization Act").

The Historic Buildings Task Force was informally created in 1965 as an advisory body to the Mayor Neal S. Blaisdell's "Action for Beautification Executive Committee," also referred to as the "Mayor's Committee on Beautification." In 1970 the task force continued its work as a committee of the Hawaiian Historical Society. The Historic Buildings Task Force created an inventory of architecturally, culturally, and historically significant buildings on Oahu from 1965-1966. The task force compiled information in the form of survey reports on over 400 sites, primarily commercial and public buildings, as well as private residences in Honolulu. The historic buildings survey reports were created by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa architecture students. The reports were term projects for students enrolled in 100-200 level architecture courses. Volunteers on behalf of the Historic Buildings Task Force also compiled survey reports from 1966-1971. The task force published "Old Honolulu: A Guide to Oahu's Historic Buildings" in 1969 and a pamphlet entitled "Walking Tour of Downtown Honolulu" in 1967 using information gathered in the survey reports. The reports were utilized by the Hawaii Visitors Bureau and Historic Sites Office to preserve and publicize historic and culturally significant sites on Oahu. The The State Parks Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources used the information gathered in the survey reports to plan for Hawaii's preservation and restoration projects under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.