Today’s ‘Timeline Tuesday’ takes us through the 1910s – Duke Kahanamoku is Hawai‘i’s first Olympic Champion, Outdoor Circle formed, Hawai‘i National Park is formed and Lili‘uokalani dies. We look at what was happening in Hawai‘i during this time period and what else was happening around the rest of the world
George Lucas
George Lucas (May 7, 1821 – March 2, 1892) was born in County Clare, Ireland; he first came to Hawaiʻi in 1849. His father, the first George Lucas, moved his family to Australia by the British government to take charge of the government domain there. He remained there for several years, and met and married […]
Books by Land, Sea and Air
The earliest libraries in Hawaiʻi appear to have been reading rooms provided for ships’ officers and crews. In Lāhainā, the Seamen’s Chapel and Reading Room was built in 1834 following an appeal by William Richards and Ephraim Spaulding. In Honolulu, the Sandwich Islands Institute, organized in November 1837, fitted up a room at the Seamen’s […]
Hawai‘i State Library
The earliest libraries in Hawaiʻi appear to have been reading rooms provided for ships officers and crews. In Lāhainā, the Seamen’s Chapel and Reading Room was built in 1834 following an appeal by William Richards and Ephriam Spaulding (it was built two years later.) In Honolulu, the Sandwich Islands Institute, organized in November 1837, […]
Alexander Cartwright
Most have heard that Alexander Cartwright is credited as being the “father of baseball;” while some still dispute this, he should at least be credited with doing the most to invent the modern game of baseball. In 1938, Alexander Cartwright received the honor of being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame for […]