The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-25
FIFTY YEARS
Of WEDLOCk
MIR. and Mrs. James
LyIe's Golden
Wedding.

/ their golden wedding anniversary. i ne
were married at Mystic, Connecticut, b
the Rev. Mr. Cogswell, on October q
| 1854. The Methodist church in whic
the ceremony took place is still standing
though removed from its original site
and was seen by Mr.. and Mrs. Lyl
two years ago.
A relic of their early married life !
also still to be seen in Mystic, being tn
house in which their eldest daughte
was born.
Mr.. Lyle is a native of Dartmouth
on Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia. H
was virtually born to the craft of ;
shipbuiIder, in which he has been engag
ed ever since he quit school, excepting
when employed in the construction o
marine railways. His father built clip
per ships for Crnard, founder of the
famous Atlantic steamship line, which
carried the mails across the Atlantic
before the days of steam navigation
press saying that the steam ferry boat
Sir Charles Ogle, which until a few
years ago was doing service, was the
oldest steam vessel on the British regis
try. The elder Lyle built that little
craft-the first steamboat ever built in
British North America-about eighty
years ago, afterward building the steam
er Pocahontas for traffic between Nova
Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Having served a regular apprentice
ship with his father, Mr.. Lyle when
quite young man removed to the
States. There he worked for some time
in the buildino yards of the late eminent
shipbuilder. Donald Mckay, at East
Boston He helped to build from start
to finish, the illustr1ous American clip
per ship, Sovereign of the Seas, which
made the record trip of Io3 days from
Honolulu to New Bedford, Mass The
Flying Cloud, Staghound and other not
able clippers of those days were other
vessel on whose structures he wrought
Other yards in which Mr.. Lyle worked
were at Medford (Mass), Damiscota
(Maine) and Mallory's at Mystic
Conn. J.. the owners of the last named
being the founders of the Mallory line
of steamers between New York and the
West Indies.
Mr.. Lyle was construction foreman
for the late Horace l. Crandall in build
ing the patent marine railways of that
engineer in the United States and Nova
Scotia, also on the Rio de la Platte,
Uruguay, and at Honolulu He came
here with Mr.. Crandall to build the
marine railway about 20 years ago, when
the work was completed taking the sup
erintendency of the railway for the ORR
gi11al lessee from the Government. the
late Samuel g. Wilder, and after a few
years, in partnership with the late Mr..
Sorenson, taking over the lease at first
hand.
Two of Mr. Ly1e's fellow-apprentice
in his fathers shipyard became notable
in the same line One was Mr..
Jenkins, who made fortune out of
marine railway in Port Adelaide, South
Australia, leaving the works to a worthy
son. The other was a Mr.. Mackay,
who came to own East Indiamen. Both
of these companions of his youth mar
ried sisters of Mr.. Lyle. A son of
Mackay is Sir James Mackay, one of
the largest owners of steamships in the
world, operating lines from England to
India and Australia, and British I'm
perial statesman. He served III the
Council of the Viceroy of India and two
years ago was sent by the British
Government on diplomatic mission to
Chan His name before knighthood
was James Lyle Mackay, having been
called after his uncle now in Honolulu.
Mrs. Lyle was born at Mystic, Con-
necticut of very old New England
stock. Her maiden name was Burrows,
and her ancestral relatives figure numer-
ously in the muster rolls of the Revolu-
ton and the pre-revolution Indian wars,
as may be seen in the printed records
of the Connecticut Historical Society in
the Hawaiian Law Library.
Curiously enough while the descend
ants of the golden-wedded couple are.
on their mothers side, eligible to MEM
bership in the Sons and Daughters of
the American Revolution. they are equal
ly entitled on their fathers side, TO be
enrolled in any society of descendants
of the United Empire LoyaIists, for Mr..
Lyle's grandfather was one of the
Royalists who left their happy homes in
the times of 1870 rather than take up
arms against King George Mrs. Lyle
has always been active in ministrations
of motherly sympathy and aid to the
sick and distressed within her reach.
being endowed with no small share
of the housewifely skill, tact and COM
mon sense of old-fashioned New Eng
land womanhood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle two years ago
made tour around the world. visiting
relatives in San Francisco. New Eng
land Canada, Great Britain and Aus
tralia, besides taking in the sights OF
Marseilles. Pompeii, Egypt, etc.
All day yesterday friends of the
esteemed couple were informally drop
ping into Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle's hospitable
home in Magazine street to offer them
congratulations Many handsome gifts
We're bestowed on them In the even
ing there was quiet family reception
TO their children and grandchildren. A
| daughter and her husband on the Coast
cabled their congratulations Several
| intimate friends calling in were vel
| coined TO the gathering and most
! pleasant evening was passed with con-
versation and music Light refresh.
| ments were served and at an oDportunt
moment one of the sonS-in-law in fitting
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