The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-11

Of 1885. Mr.. Pierce, who had been
twelve years from home, spent year
or more, 1851, on visit there. Ia
1910, Captain Brewer, having been
away six years, took his turn, and
was absent until the autumn of 1871.
In ls43, Mr.. Pierce retired for resi-
dence in Charle-town and Boston,
where he remained about thirty
years. For the first time the house
then took the name Of
4. BretCer q, Co.. a firm which
lasted four year, 1Si3 A.. On May %,
1871, James +. b Marshall and Fran
els Johnson had formed a pa 'tnership,
styled Marshall & Johnson, for "tTans
acting q general mercantile business
at Honolulu. With them Captain
Brewer joined, and TO them t'an--
ferred his business when he came
home in 1915. August 81, 1917, the
partnership of these three expired by
limitation, and u new firm took 1.-The
warehouse recently occupied by them
and also the business under the style
4 of
/ s. H. Williams d: Co, a firm that
lasted from lS47 to 1850. The mem
beTs We're Stephen II. Williams, James
r. + Marshall and William Baker,
Jr. June Il, 1s4S, Benjamin F. Snow
was admitted q partner. During this
partnership the discovery Of gold in
California helped to enlarge business,
a. did also whaling.
II. Il. lSaOlC (as he -igned) on Sep
tember IS, 1850, reported 10Y letter 10
j. II. > that he was successor of tine
firm of >. II. Williams * Co" He
continued To- receive business that had
gone to that house. On February u,
1856, ne departed for New York, and
left his affairs with b. w. Field. The
through
Charles BreIOer. second, a nephew
of Captain Charles Brewer, with whom
he had been, lS43 lS45. CoutempOr-
aueou-ly 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-
D1an Peck Joined him, ana the firm
again became
continued from 1859 TO the present
date, often with no one by the name
of Brewer i'm il at Honolulu. In the
period 1926 50, or thirty three years,
there were four, 1S43-47, when ii had
been the style. Mr.. Brewer retired in
the summer Of 1861, and October Sth,
Mr.. Peck was Joined by Charles II.
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 in
the summer of 1862, retired in May,
1868.
ALI the members of the house who
have been named are now QS95) 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 Eng
land character and their services,
public as well as mercantile.
James Hunnewell was born, in
Chrlestown, Mass, February 10, 1894, /.
and died in his home there May ., .
1859 His family of Hunnewells had |
lived on Massachusetts, ground for over
two centuries, and 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
1.-THE name of the late James Hume
well was early associated with the
interests of these islands,
and his long and useful life was
marked by such constant goodwill to
my kingdom, that L 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 honored
Charles Brewer was born in Boston,
March 81, 1904. He was descended
from Daniel Brewer, who settled in
Mass, in 1882. and died on
ancestral ground at his home in
Plain. His funeral, October
IL, 1855, was attended by a remarkable
of Hawaii. In 1910 he
Martha d. Turner, at Charles
town, where her father was Uni
versalist minister, 1Sl4-25. He was
much esteemed, and although little in
public life, so called, he was widely
and well known.
Henry Alpheus Pierce, son of Joseph
a., was born in Dorchester, Mass,
December Is, 1905, and died in San
Francisco, July %, 1885. For about
hirty years he lived in CharlestOwn
md Boston, and married Susan r.
thompson, of an old family in the
ormer city. He travelled extensively
N Mexico and South America. He
vas a pioneer in the sugar industry at
he islands, but was too early in and
tut of it to realize its gains, and
acked success in an attempt at the
south after the Civil War. After
eaving business he was, from July,
$50, to September, 1877, the Minister
# the United States, resident in Ha-
vail.
James Fowle Baldwin Marshall, son
# native of Boston, was born there
n August, 1918, and died at his home
u Weston, Mass, May 6, 1891. He
.rrived at the islands in 1889. He ,
married Martha Twycross Johnson, of
His public services in
nd for Hawaii, especially her indie
'endence, were distinguished. After
eaving mercantile business he was
Turing the civil war in the Sanitary
and later a Paymaster-
General of Massachusetts for the army
there were all told $50, 900 men that
he State sent to the front. In this
flee be had the rank of Brigadier
General. Like the accounts of the old