The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-04-11
DEATH OF JUDGE M'CULLY.
An Accomplished JurIst Lost to
Hawaii.

hearing the worst, in the case of
Hon. Lawrence McCully, First AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme
Court. Since he was laid aside early
this year by illness, public mention
of his condition was stopped by re-
quest, as the Judge read the papers
and, part of his trouble being nerv-
Gus, references TO him were not likely
to do him any good. Reports that
he was improving were suddenly
changed the middle of last week TO
the information that he was in
sinking condition. Judge McCully
died at O'Clock Sunday morning at
his residence, Pawaa, in the 6lst
year of his age.
Lawrence McCully was born May
%, 1881, in New York City, from
whence his father removed his family
two years later to Oswego, n. Y. He
received his education at Courtlandt
Academy, Homer, n. Y, and Yale
College, graduating from college in
1862. After passing two years as a
school teacher in the Southern
States, Mr.. McCully came to these
Islands in December, 1854, just
after the death of Kamehameha III.
Bringing letters to Chief Justice Lee
and Hon. c. X. Bishop, he was sent
to Hilo as Police Justice. Before
two years he resigned that office and
went into orange growing in kona,
where 200 trees planted by HIM are
now bearing, and near the last of his
hours he ate some of their fruit.
While on the Island of Hawaii he
learned the Hawaiian language.
Coming to Honolulu in 1858,
Mr.. McCully studied law in the
Office of the late Chief Justice
Harris, and March IL, 1859, was
admitted to the bar. In 1860
he was elected without any exertion
on his own part as Representative
for Kohala, and the new House of
Representatives-then sitting separ-
ate from the Nobes-elected him
as Speaker. Among his colleagues
were j. 1. Dowsett, II. A. Wide
mann, V. Knudsen and ID. d. Bald
win.
Judge McCully took the position
of interpreter to the Courts April |,
1862, and that of Clerk of the SUI
preme Court Jan. 2, 1865, which he
held for five and half years, when
he became Deputy Attorney General.
This office he held under four sue
cessive Acknowledgements at the
salary of 500 a month. In 1876 he
visited the Centennial Exhibition
and before returning to the kingdom
took a course of law lectures at Har-
ward. When he returned to his
adopted country he received the COM
mission from King Kalakaua of Sec
ond Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, Mr.. Harris being promoted
to be Chief Justice and Mr.. Judd
to be First Associate. When Chief
Justice Judd attained his present
position Mr.. McCully was promoted
in due order to be First Associate
Justice. Besides his work that re-
mains for all time in Vols. 3, 4, 5, 6
and z of Hawaiian Reports, the late
Judge left valuable records of ser
vice as Commissioner of Boundaries
and Compiler of the Statutes.
Judge McCully was cultivated
scholar, an active and valued mem
Der of the Social Science Association
He was member of Central Union
Congregational Church, whose life
was thoroughly consistent with his
religious profession. With his wife
he madea tour through America and
Europe, leaving home April 81,
1891, and returning December Is of
the same year. While in London he
acted as the accredited delegate of
the Hawaiian Evangelical Associa-
ton at the Ecumenical Conference of
the Congregational Church. He was
cordially received and by request
addressed the conference. On his
return home he gave an account of
the gathering from the pulpit of
Central Union Church, holding the
intense interest of the congregation
as he told his story in graphic Ian
guage without notes.
Judge McCully's health began to
show signs of weakness in 1888, his
heart becoming affected. Still he
had always been able to attend to his
| official and social duties until after
| his return from abroad last year
He was attacked by influenza in
California, which robbed him of the
recuperative effects of his travels.
The January term of the Supreme
Court was allotted TO his presidency,
but he had to give ii up in two weeks
and retire to his house. Last Thurs
day evening il was reported he was
dying, and the end came Sunday
morning as above stated. His last
hours were soothed by the attentions
of his wife and many friends, includ-
ing the Chief Justice and Mrs. Judd.
Judge McCully was married to
Miss Ellen Harvey, at the residence
of Chief Justice Allen, May 2G,
1866. His widow has the sympathy
of the community in the loss of her