The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06


of the Bank of California, was, for
many Years, a conspicuous and useful
figure In Hawaii, where, in the de.
velopment which long preceded an.
nexation, he bore the part of banker,
a philanthropist and an adviser and
friend of the throne. Coming to San
Francisco in 1894, and selling his Ha.
waiian properties. he has since been
identified with the material welfare
of this city and deeply interested in
the administration of trusts, created
by himself and his late wife, the Prn,
cess Bernice, a descendant of Kane
hameha /, for educational and reli-
gious purposes in Hawaii,
Mr. Bishop, who is now in his seth
year, was born at Glen's Falls, War
rem county, n. ", in 1922 On his
mothers side he came of Revolution
airy stock. His parents died in his
childhood, and he had village bring
ing up, being cared for by his grand.
parents, and taught in district and
select schools At the age of 10 young
Bishop went to work for a man at
Warrensburg, a neighborng town, who
kept general store, was Postmaster,
titled farm and ran sawmill and
gristmill There was plenty to do,
and the youth got wider experience
than most boys of his age, and stored
up knowledge of human nature which
stood him in good stead in years to
come.
Moved to Sandy Hill.
In 1912 Mr.. Bishop moved to the
nearby town of Sandy Hill and be-
came head clerk and bookkeeper of a
general store, where they bought
everything the farmers had to sell and
sold them the supplies they needed. AT
Sandy Hill Mr.. Bishop had in William
/. Lee, a connection by marriage who
was yet like himself to cut a large
figure in the affairs of distant Poly
nesia. At the time Mr.. Bishop went
to Sandy Hill Lee had just returned
for his summer vacation from a Yer
mont institution, the University o.
Norwich. The young men, meeting fol
the first time, struck up a warm friend
ship, which continued as long as Lee
lived.
During the remaining period of Lee
collegiate studies Bishop stayed a
Sandy Hill, and thereafter until hi
friend had taken a course in the Han
ward Law School, had spent a year a
principal of Virginia institute, and re
turning north had opened a law o
fee at Troy, n. Y There young Bisho
went to visit Lee, and the event b.
came a turning point in the career
both
Starting for the Pacific.
Neither was satisfied with his ou
look. They felt the stir of the ives
ward movement and saw no signs
large opportunities in the staid o
communities in which they live
There was, at the time, much intere
in the new Territory of Oregon b
cause of the boundary dispute wit
Great Britain. "Fifty-four forty
fight" was the popular slogan, al
everybody, in posting himself on II
possibilities of war, had learned thi
Oregon was a region worth struggliT
for. Lee had the emigration feve
and he quickly gave it to Bishop. the
talked Oregon over and made up the
minds to go there Details were soc
arranged The papers said that u
brig Henry was about to sail fro
Newburyport, Mass, with passenger
for Oregon City, Willamette, stoppir
at Honolulu to discharge freigh
Bishop and Lee took passage, leavir
Newburyport February %, 1916.
Stormy on Atlantic.
1t was the stormiest part OF Il
year on the Atlantic, and the tV
Young fellows, who had never been
sea before, often wished themselv'
back on dry land. Head winds al
gales buffeted the little brig, al
progress was slow. 1t was eighty-fo
DAYS before the Henry reached
Catharines, Brazil where she put
for supplies, and where the youlhl
fortune-seekers got their first glimps
of the tropics of which they were y
to see so much Leaving st. Cath
rine's shortly the voyage was still Il
pleasant, and it was the Fourth
July by the time the Henry reach'
the Falklands. When she left Ne
buryport the captain had said the
would spend the Fourth in iionoln
harbor. But there was yet the frozt
Horn to negotiate and the vast stretc
es of the Pacific.
The month after the, brig had lie
Newburyport the ship Brooklyn lie
New York for Honolulu with col
pany of Mormons headed by Sa
Brannan. The Brooklyn had ia
massage, beating the Henry by thr'
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