The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-02
WHERE CHINATOWN LOSSES ARE
: TO BE ADJUDICATED.
The Men Who Will Constitute the Court
and the Jurisdiction That Has Been
Given Them.


natown in Honolulu, and to make
awards and judgments on such losses"
The court is created and commission
ers appointed by authority of President
Mckinley. The official title is the
Court of Claims for Losses Caused by
the Board of Health in the Suppression
of Bubonic Plague" The jurisdiction
claims founded upon actual lossessI
caused by the burning of Chinatown in
Honolulu, which are filed before June ], :,
and the decision of the court is final.
The members of the court of j Alfred
Magoon, George A. Davis, Lorrin An
drews,t A. Noa Kepoikai and Alfred F
Judd Jr
An Informal meeting of the members
of the court will be held some time
today,yand a time for a formal meeting
to organize the court will be appointed.
The "Details of the Jurisdiction confer
red, the method of organization and
procedure and other matters of interest
to claimants are fully set out in the
by Authority" notice published in this
issue.
The following brief biographies of the
members of the court are given:
~. ALFRED MAGOON.
John Alfred Magoon, president of the
new court of claims was born July %,
1858 at Algoa, Kossutb County, Iowa.
His parents returned to their former
home, Litchfield Kennebee County,
Maine, when he was a year old. When
he was nine he went with his mother
to California to join his father who had
preceded them. They lived in Lake
County his father engaged in quick
silver mining and ranching for three or
four years, when the family moved to
the placer mining region near Folsom
At fourteen the young ]. Alfred Ma
goon went to Golden Gate Military
Academy, Oakland, remaining there a
short time only and graduating at
Aealds Business College, San Fran
cisco when he was sixteen. He kept
books for various concerns on tine coast
and learned the printing trade in the
otj1ce of the Santa Rosa Democrat.
He came to Hawaii, January s, 1876,
was luna on Hutchinson plantation
for. a time and for two years was book
keeper for Halstead & Gordon at Wal
6lua. He began the study of law in
the office, of 3, II. Austin in Honolulu
and in 1889 was appointed Deputy
Sheriff cf,Makawao, Maui. and became
| bookkeeper for Paia plantation in 1881.
IN 1888 he entered the law class at Mi
| chigan' University, graduating in 1885,
and at once returned to Honolulu and
began the practice of law. He was
clerk OF the Legislature in 1887 and 1888
Under the new constitution. In 1897 he
was appointed a Circuit Judge to sue
ceed Henry e. Cooper. TLe resigned
after three months and resumed the
practice of law which lie had not. en-
tirely abandoned.
! May II, 1887 he married the eldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Along. They
have seven children, four boys and
three girls.
| GEORGE A. DAVIS.
George A. Davis was born in Boston,
June 3, 1858. At five he moved with his
parents to the province of New Bruins
wick. He attended Sheffield Academy
New Brunswick, and Arcadia Collegiate
school, Nova Scotia, passed his exam
| inatton as an entered law student in the
office of William Pugsley, Ex-Solicitor
General of Canada, and in 1876 became
a student in the Boston law school. Al
the same time he was a student in the
office of Melville M. Bigelow, the emf
nent jurist and law writer. He was
graduated with the degree of LIB. in
1879.
On account of his health he return
ed to the provinces and studied a year
with Hon. Charles N Spinner, @. c..
Recorder of the City of Sr. John, N. B
He was admitted an attorney in 1886
and was called to the bar as q barristeI
in October 1881. He was four times
a member OF the Board of Aldermen
for the City of ST. John, and a member
of the Municipal Council. For two
years he presided in the City Court by
virtue of his office as Alderman.
JUDGE A. N. KEPOIKAI.
Judge A. N. Kepoikai is a native Ba
waiian born on the Island of Maui abou
forty-eight years ago. He was educated
at Lahainaluna and Oahu College anC
adopted the profession of the law. II,
was for many years judge of ehe Circu
Court in Wailuku, and was elected Sc
nator in April 1898 to succeed william
Horner. He is a fluent and effectiv,
public speaker both in the English ant
the Hawaiian languages.
LORRIN ANDREWS.
Lorrin Andrews was born in New
York City in 1870. He is a son o
William Andrews and a grandson o
Rev. Lorrin Andrews, one of the earl!
missionaries to the Islands and the frs
white Judge in Hawaii Lorrin An
drews was graduated from the UniVer
sity of the city of New York in 1891 an,
from the law department in 1893, anC
practiced law in New York until com
ing here in January 1899. He was
member Of the New York Assembly II
1896 from the 18th Assembly district
! Brooklyn. In the first municipal cam
paign under the new charter of tn,
Greater New York" he was presiden
of the Brooklyn Committee of fft!
which carried on the campaign of Setl
Low of Columbia University for Mayor
After coming here he was with Thurs
ton & Carter for a time but since Oc
tober last has been a member of tn,
law firm of Humphreys & Andrews.
ALBERT F. JUDD, Jr.
Albert F.. Judd, Jr, the younges
member of the court was born in Homo
lulu December 20, 1874, and is the eldes
son of Chief Justice and Mrs. Judd. II
attended the public shoots here an,
Oahu College, and then went to Yale
where he was graduated with the de
gree of A. B. in 1897. He studied Law
i'm the office Of Watrous Dane, New
Haven and at the Yale law school, an
was admitted to the Connecticut ba
i'm 1899
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