The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-02
GROWING SOCIETY
Year Book of Society Sons
of American Revolution.
viii Be Published in Few Days.
History of the Local
Society.

The year book of the Hawaiian So
ciety, Sons of the American Revolu
ton, compiled by VIM. F. Allen, Prof.
W. D. Alexander and John Effinger,
Committe, for the years 1S96-1S97, will
be issued in the course of ten days. II
will contain a vast deal of historical
information concerning the society
and its members.
This book is disseminated among
United States. Similar year books are
gotten out by all the societies and are
distributed in the same way. On the
title page of the Hawaiian year book
will appear this inscription: "To our
compatriots across the sea, this vol
ume is dedicated with the hope that
we may soon live under the flag of our
fatherland." AS a preface, the follow
ing historical sketch will bear quite
interesting data to the societies
across the sea-"
The Hawaiian Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution enjoys
the distinction of being the first So
ciety of the kind formed in a foreign
land. 1t is one of many proofs that
Hawaii forms the advanced post of
American civilization in the Pacific
Ocean
THE Pioneers who first brought
Christian civilization to these Islands,
and many of their compatriots who
have since then settled here, belonged
to old Revolutionary families, chiefly
of New England and the Middle States.
They taught their descendants to fear
God and love liberty, to revere the
memory of their patriotic ancestors,
and to cherish the principles for which
they fought. These principles they
were taught to hold not in any narrow
and selfish spirit, but with the view
of extending to all mankind the bless
ings of liberty protected by law"
Here as elsewhere these influences
have swept away feudal despotism and
secured to the native people of these
Islands all the rights which were won
at so great cost by our ancestors.
During the great Civil War, the
American colony in Hawaii contribut-
ed its full share both of men and mon
ey for the cause of the Union; and no.
where is the memory of those who
gave their lives in it's defence more
honored than here on Decoration Day. |
1.-THE Hawaiian Society was organic
ed June II, 1896, on the anniversary of |
the battle of Bunker Hill, with but |
eighteen members. A constitution |
based upon that of the Massachusetts |
Society was adopted and the following
officers chosen Peter Cushman Jones, |
President; Albert Francis Judd, Vice
President; John Effinger, Secretary:
William Dewitt Alexander, Registrar:
William Joseph Forbes, Treasurer;
Rev. Douglas Putnam Brine, John |
Walter Jones and Henry Weld Sever |
ance, Members of the Board of Man |
ayers. The Board with the exception |
of Henry Weld Severance) was re-
elected, with the addition of Col. Will |
liam Fessenden Allen, at the annual |
meeting in June, 1896.
THE Hawaiian Society has given |
three entertainments in the past year
one on the anniversary of the birth |
of Washington, one on the Lexington |
Alarm Day, and one on Corvallis
Surrender Day. The first was at Hon.
P. c. Jones residence, the second at
Chief Justice Judd's residence, and
the third at the hall of the Y. NJ. C. A. |
the guest of honor at the last one be-
ing Captain Nathan Appleton, of the
Massachusetts Society. The Society |
proposes the coming year holding
meetings to celebrate all the principal |
anniversaries of the Revolution. 1t has
offered prizes for orations to be de- |
livered at the close of the school year |
by the students of the schools of the
Republic.
'FIfty-seven applications for mem
bership have been received, and nearly |
all favorably reported upon by the Ma
5ional Society as eligible The Hawai- |
ian Society offers this modest addition |
to the year Books of the Society of the |
Sons Of the American Revolution, in |
the hope that the coming year will see
the names upon its membership roll |
doubled in number"