The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-07-16

On Saturday evening last, DR.. G. P Judd,
who had been iu very feeble health for several
months past, died while sitting in his chair,
where be had been reading. His death was SO
quiet and unobserved, that his nurse who was
with him supposed he had simply fallen asleep.
Thus has passed away from the stage of life one
OF the Oldest and most prominent actors in the
history of these Islands during the past forty
years. DR.. Judd was born at Paris, New York
| State, April 3d. 1903. and was therefore a little
past seventy years of age. He came out under
the appointment of physician to the American
Mission. arriving here with The second reinforce
ment of missionaries in March, 1928. Among
those who accompanied him were Revs. Z. w.
Clark, L. Andrews, ]. S. Green, P. J. Gulick,
and their wives all OF whom survive him except
the late Lorrin Andrews. In 1870 he accompa-
MED Commodore Wilkes in his exploring tour
through these Islands. In 1912. be resigned his
connection with the Mission, and at the invitation
of Kamehameha III, accepted the position of
Recorder and Interpreter to the Government an
Office somewhat similar to that of Secretary to
the King. When Lord George Paulet took pos
session of the Islands in lS43, Dr. Judd was ap-
pointed one Of the Joint Commission, to repre-
sent the King, but soon resigned the Office when
he found the Commission bent abrogating the
salstary laws restraining RIGHTEOUSNESS aud
crime, which had lately been established. When
Admiral Thomas restored the sovereignty to Ka-
mehameha Ill, July 81, l643 DIR. Judd was In
vited by the King to organize a Ministry, which
he did by selecting R. C..WylIie to be Minister
of Foreign Affairs, himself Minister Of the In
terror, and John Ricord, Attorney General. This
was the first Cabinet the Hawaiian Govern
ment ever had. In the following year, 1874 or 8,
the Cabinet was increased to four Ministers. and
he took the portfolio of the Finance Department,
which be held till 1853. In ls49, he accompa-
MED the then Princes Liholiho and Lot, to
Europe, to make new treaties, and to endeavor
to settle the difficulty which occurred with France
in that year. The ten years during which he
held Office we're probably the stormiest decade In
the modern political history Of Hawaii, and it
required man of the irmness of Doctor Judd
to steer the frail ship Of state which had been
launched on a stormy sea- To his tact and wis
dem, aided by his associates, Wyllie, Richards,
Ricord, Lee, and Andrews, are the Hawaiian
people indebted for the admirable system of con-
stitutional government then established, and
which has secured peace and quiet for over
thirty years. When he entered the service of
the King and organized for him government
ha fonnd him onruuharad NTH q load IF daht
paying exorbitant interest. By system of pru-
dent economy and rigid circumspection. he paid
of these debts, and established for the Hawaiian
Government an enviabe financial reputation,
which it has preserved to this day. To him,
more than to any other man. living or dead, be-
longs whatever honor is due for our present ma
tional credit as we'll as for many Of the substan-
tial improvements in the city.
But it was as a citizen. and q warm friend of
the Hawaiians that bis influence for good was
felt most. Among the older natives. now rapidly
dropping of, who knew him best, he was looked
TO as faithful counselor, and loved as father.
His funeral was attended on Sunday afternoon,
from his late residence, by q very large concourse
of friends and his remains deposited in Nuuanu
Cemetery, beside those Of his wife, who died a
few months since. Among the pallbearers were
their Excelencies the American Minister Resi-
dent, the Ministers of Foreign Relations and of
the Interior, Governor Kanoa 5. n. Castle, A.
z. Brickwood. Rev. L. Smith. and Capt.. Geett
he leaves a numerous family of children and
grandchildren and also bis mother who is now
ninety-one years of age.