The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-10-25
FIFTY YEARS
OF WEDLOCK
Mr.. and Mrs. James
LyIe's Golden
Wedding.

their golden wedding anniversary. lney
were married at Mystic, Connecticut, by
the Rev Mr. Cogswell, on October ~
1854. The Methodist church in which
the ceremony took place is still standing,
though removed from its original site,
and was seen by Mr. and Mrs. Lyle
two years ago.
7 A relic OF their early married life is
also still to be seen in Mystic, being the
house in which their eldest daughter
was born.
Mr.. Lyle is native Of Dartmouth,
on Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia He
was virtually born to the craft of a
shipbuilder, in which he has been engag-
ed ever since he quit school, excepting
when employed in the construction OF
marine railways. His father built clip
per ships for Cunard founder of the
! famous Atlantic steamship line, which
carried the mails across the Atlantic
before the days of steam navigation
Lately an item went the rounds of the
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 regular apprentice
? ship with his father, MIR. Lyle when
quite a young man removed to the
States. There he worked for some time
in the BUILDING yards of the late eminent
! shipbuilder. Donald Mckay, at East
| Boston He helped to build from start
to finish, the illustrious American clip
| per ship, Sovereign of the Seas which
made the record trip of 1903 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
| (Nlaine) and Mallory's at Mystic
Comm, 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 |. 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
ginal lessee from the Government, the
late Samuel G. Wilder, and after few
! years, in partnership with the late Mr..
Sorenson, taking over the lease at first
hand.
Two of Mr. Lyle's fellow-apprentice
in his fathers shipyard became notable
in the same line. One was Mr..
Jenkins, who made a fortune out of
marine railway in Port Adelaide, South
Australia, leaving the works to worthy
son. The other was Mr.. Mackay,
who came to own East lndiamen. 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 nneS from England to
India and Australia, and British I'M
peral statesman. He served in the
Council OF the Niceroy 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 Engilnd
stock Her maiden name WIS Burrows,
and her ancestral relatives figure numer-
ously in the muster rolls of the Revolu.
ton and the pre-revolution Indian vars,
as may be seen in the printed records
of the Connecticut Historical Society i'll
the Hawaiian Law Library.
Curiously enough while the descend
ants of the godenwedded 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 Loyalists, for Mr.,
Lyle's grandfather was one OF the
Royalists who left their happy homes in
the times OF l--6 rather than take up
arms against King George. Mrs, lyle
has always been active in mlnstrations
OF molherly sympathy and aid 90 the
sick and distressed within her reach,
Nflllk tlNhNhN Win NO hllAli NIlAit
of the hnuscwliely skill tact and COM
mon sense of old-ilshloned New Eng
hand Nomanhoud
Mr. and Mrs lyle TWO years ago
made a tour around the world. visiting
relatives in San Francisco, New Eng
| land Canada, Great Britain and Aus
illia besides taking in the sights 81
Marsellcs, Pompell Egypt etc
All day yesterday irrnds II the
esteemed tnnpIt were informally drop
ping mo M and MIS- lye.s h1spImb'e
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congratulations Many handsome Gifts
nsf bestowed on them. M ihf nru-
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