The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-02-18

Sepgaged passage on the first steamer
sailing for America, the EIbe, and
9wrote his wife to have everything 10
4readiness that 10 time should be lost
gin getting to Honolulu.
Mr.. Castle and his child Dorothy
occupied q saloon stateroom, and from
1.-THE accounts given of the sinking of
1.-THE steamer there can be no hope OF
This having been among the rescued.
In fact. it is doubtful if he could have
leven reached the deck before the
ship went down. Had be, by some
good fortune, failed to have taken the
Steamer as planned, sufficient time
had elapsed between the sinking of
the Elbe and the sailing Of the Ala
media from San Francisco for him 10
have sent advices to that effect.
The news was received with un-
yfeigned sorrow throughout the COM
m1nity. Expressions Of sympathy
were rendered the family on every
hand, the mail from the States alsoI
Infringing many messages Of condol-|
ence from the host OF friends which,
the deceased had made during his resi-
sdence as q student and tourist in Diff
Sferent sections of the country.
Henry n. Castle was born in Homo
lulu, August %, 1852. He was the,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. S. n. Castle, whoI
were among the earliest white settlersI
of the islands. His early educationI
was received at Punahou. While yet
q boy he entered Oberlin College,
spending three years at the prepara-I
tory school, and graduating from the
Youngest members of his class, Pro-
|fessor Jordan Smith speaks of
him as being the brightest
.young man he ever met.
Returning from Oberlin MIR. Castle
lentered the law Office of his brother,
w. r. Castle, where he remained un-I
It'll 1885, when he went to Berlin toI
study philosophy. In December, 1885,
he returned to Harvard, taking his
first law examinations in the summer
of 1887. After spending the rest of
the summer in the Adirondacks he!
returned to Honolulu and acted asI
reporter at the special session of theI
In 1888 he did his frsti
Newspaper work, as editor of the COM
IMERCIAL ADVERTISER and the Hal
|WAiIAN GAZETTE. During the latteri
part of this year he decided to conf
Itinue his law studies at Harvard butt
finally went on to Berlin and LeipsicI
Iwnere, with his intimate friend and
college chum, he completed his courseS
jim philosophy. AT Leipsic he metz
were married in London and went tot
the Paris exposition with Mr.. andI
Mrs. James b. Castle. After some
months travel he made his home inI
the islands and resumed his connect
|tion with the ADVERTISERS and GA
'ZETTE, also acting as reporter for theS
of 1890. The child Dorothyf
WAS born in June and in July Of thet
same year the mother was killed by !
being thrown from her carriage.
Mr.. Castle again went to Europe,
in 1891 to resume the editor-I
|ial chair. December, 1892, he Wasj
was q teacher at Punahou. Follow
ling close on this event came the revo-
luton of 1898, in which Mr.. Castle
carried gun as q private, doing act
i've service during the day and tend
ling to his editorial work evenings.
After matters had settled, accompa-
|nied by his wife, he went to Ann Ar
Dor, where his brother-in-law, George
Meade, was connected with the uni
|versity. Consequent to the disturb
Iances arising from President Cleve-
lands attempt to restore the ex-queen,
Mr.. Castle went to Washington, from
December, 1898, in company with
Minister Thurston and w. n. Arm
strong. Editorial work was again
taken up, and continued to August,
1894, when he returned to the United
States, and leaving his wife in Phila-
delphia, in September sailed for Ger
many with the daughter Dorothy to-
visit the child's grandmother in Leip-
sic. After his departure his secondk
child was born in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Castles services in the POLITICAL
history of the country have been in
valuable.