The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-11-12

ABOUT eaght years from the summer
of 1885. Mr.. Pierce, who had been
twelve years from home, spent year
or more, 1857, on visit there. In
1910, Captain Brewer, having been
away six years, took his turn, and
was absent until the autumn of 1S4l.
In 1S43, Mr.. Pierce retired for resi-
/ dence in Charlestown and Boston,
where he remained about thirty
years. For the first time the house
then took the name Of
c. BreUer d Co., a firm which
lasted four year., 1S43-47. On May %,
/ 1S4l, James F. B. Marshall and Fran
els Johnson had formed a pa tnership,
[ styled Marshall & johnson, for "trans
acting a general mercantile business"
at Honolulu. With them Captain
Brewer joined, and to them trans
ferred his business when he came
home in 1915. August 81, lS47, the
partnership of these three expired by
limitation, and new firm took 1.-THE
warehouse recently occupied by them"
and also the business under the style
of
s. II. Williams d: Co firm that
lasted from lS47 to 1850 The mem
bers were Stephen H. Williams, James
+. B Marshall and William Baker,
Jr. June II, 1s4S, Benjamin F. Snow
was admitted partner. During this
partnership the discovery Of gold in
California helped to enlarge business,
as did also whaling.
B. F. .SnoW las he signed) on Sep
TENDER Is, 1850, reported 10Y letter to
} h. that he was successor of the
firm of s. II. Williams & Co." He
continued TO receive business that bad
gone to that house. On February q,
1856, ne departed for New York, aud
lett his affairs with B. w. Field. The
succession in the house, however, was
through
Charles BreWer, second, a nephew
of Captain Charles Brewer, with whom
he had been, 1913 lS45. Contempor-
aneously with Mr. Snow he was in
business, and also doing that which
went to the house, and all, or most of
it, by 1856. In September, 1859, Sher-
man Peck Joined him, anu the firm
again became
C. BreWer d. Co., style that has
continued from 1859 to the present
date, often with no one by the name
of Brewer in it at Honolulu. In the
period 1926 SO, or thirty three yeais,
there were four, 1S43-47, when it had
been the style. Mr.. Brewer retired in
the summer of 1861, and October Sth,
Mr.. Peck was joined by Charles 81.
Lunt, who had arrived during the
preceding month. In August, 1862,
they were Joined by II. A. P Carter.
Mr.. Lunt, who returned to Boston ia
the summer of 1862, retired in May,
1868.
All the members of the house who
have been named are now (lS95) dead.
This sketch of the changes during
forty years 1926 IS, may very properly
be followed by another with brief
notice of their personal history, which
will show their thoroughly New EDg-
land character and their services,
public rs we'll as mercantile.
James Hunnewell was horn, in
Chrlestown, Mass, February 10, 1894,
and died in his home there May 2,
1859 His family OF Hunnewells had
lived on Massachusetts, ground for over
two centuries, aud his mothers,
rockingham, since 1880. He married
Susan Lamson, whose family had
been as long in the state. In him the
missionaries and the natives had one
of their best friends. AT his death the
King, Kamehameha W, in a valued
letter to the present writer, said:
"The name of the late James Hume
well was early associated with the
commercial interests of these islands,
aud his long and useful life was
marked by such constant goodwill to
my kingdom, that / shall always
cherish his memory with sincere re-
gard. Although he was only removed
in the fulness of time, deeply sym
pathize with you in the loss of such
parent, but l congratulate you in the
inheritance of such an hOuored
name"
Charles Brewer was born in Boston,
March q, 1904. He was descended
from Daniel Brewer, who settled in
Roxbury, Mass, in 1882 and died on
ancestral ground at his home in
Jamaica Pain His funeral, October
IL, 1855, was attended by remarkable
reple -eutatIon of Hawaii. In 1910 be
married Martha d. Turner, at Charles
town, where her father was Uni
versalist minister, 1Sl4-25. He was
much esteemed, aud although little in
puuIlC me- 81 Ca'icu; hC "oo "iuC'y
and well known.
Henry Alpheus Pierce, son of Joseph
H, was born in Dorchester, Mass
December Is, 1908, and died in San
Francisco, July 90, 1885 For about
thirty years he lived in CharlestOwu
and Boston, and married Susan r.
Thompson, of an OLD family in tue
former city. He travelled extensively
IN Mexico and South America. He
was pioneer in the sugar industry at
the islands, but was too early in and
out of it to realize its gains, and
lacked success in al attempt at the
South after the Civil War. After
leaving business he was, from July,
1859, to September, 1877, the Minister
of the United States, resident in Ha-
wall
James Fowle Baldwin Marshall, sou
of native of Boston, was born there
in August, 1918, and died at his home
in Weston, Mass May g. 1891 He
arrived at The islands in 1889 He
married Martha Twyrross Johnson, of
Charlestowu. His public services in
and for Hawaii, especially her indie
peDdeuce, were distinguished. After
leaving mercantile business he was
during the civil war in the Sanitary
Commission, and later a Paymaster-
General of Massachusetts for the army
there were all told 10000 men that
the State sent to the trout. In this
office he bad the rank of Brigadier
General Like the accounts of the old
Observation-Disclosures hi. for tho Copo mon