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.
Water Commission of the Territory of Hawaii
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
1870-1872. Honolulu, Oahu. Merchant Street
1871-1872. Wailuku, Maui.
First Chinese photographer in Hawaii.