Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-09
SHINING CAREER SKETCHED
OF PETER CUSHMAN JONES,
ONE OF HONOLULU'S G. 0. M
Seventy Years Old TomoowRetred Merchant Prince
and Sugar Factor Patriot and PhanthopS Make
Hawaiian History in Stirring Tmes-Residen Of Honolulu
Nearly Sixty Years

, ldSI ifleTG MdlhGu UP HlICti a
young man not turned 20 years Of
age, vending his way to his first
meal in Honolulu, and, instead Of be-
ing met by welcome committee with
a promotion aloha and lei, his ears
were greeted with the remark from
the doorway of store: Another Bos-
ton young man come to town TO seek
his fortune; we had better give him
$4,000 and send him home again"
His name was Peter Cushman Jones
and he stayed in Honolulu long enough
to help the author OF the discouraging
notice of his arrival TO make a good
many ten thousands, as his partner in
q business that became one Of the
biggest factors in the growth of Homo
lulu and the development of Hawaii;
also long enough to found other in
stituticns in which descendants of the
same associate largely have their for
tunes established. This future part
ner of the Boston young man. was
II. A. p Carter, for many years be-
fore his death Hawaiian minister at
Washington and, incidentally, diplo-
treaty that was the mainstay of Ha-
waiian prosperity for 90 years before
annexation
Veteran kamaaina
For nearly so years has p. c. Jones
been one of the most prominent as
well as useful residents of Honolulu,
and the fact that tomorrow brings him
to the entrance of the eightieth year
of his life is justification for the print
ing herewith of a sketch of his career
He. was born in Boston on December
10, 1887. p. c. Jones, Sr., his father,
was an old Boston merchant, but re-
moved his residence to Newton, Mass,
20 years before his death in 1885. His
brother. William p Jones, was in
partnership with his father in the
wholesale paper business. Their stock
was burned in the great fire of 1872
and the local insurance company de-
faulted in payment of the risk. Will
lam visited Honolulu about 1895. he
being then IN the paper trade m Bos.-
ten
ton.
Distinguished Ancestry
Dir. Jones had an ancient and hon
orably ancestry on both sides, both
Puritan. and Revolutionary. and his
life has been true to the double
heritage. His greatgrandfather Jones
having died. In 1772 and grandfather
being small boy at the revolution
Of I775 none on that side took part
in the immortal struggle for freedom,
but his mother was q granddaughter
OF Capt Isaac Baldwin on her father S,
and of Peter Mcintosh on her mothers
side. Mcintosh was a great friend of
Paul Revere and tradition makes him
cut as one OF the Boston tea party
Indians" p. c. Jones remembers
seeing him when the former was a
small boy. Capt Baldwin was on the
roof shingling HIS barn when he heard
of the battle Of Lexington thaving
been soldier In French and Indian
vars and got down and organized
company Of which he was made cap
tain. On June IL, It's, he marched
his company to Bunker Hill, arriving
at noon, and at once began to fight.
An hour later he was mortally wound
ed and died at shutdown.
Among the ancestors of Mr.. Jones
were John Cotton, grandfather of the
famous preacher, Cotton Mather. and
Thomas Dudley. elected governor OF
Massachusetts in 1884 and again in
1910, being son of Capt Roger bud.
icy. soldier under Queen Elizabeth.
Mr.. Jones contributed to a recumbent
statue OF the elder Cotton erected in
Che First Church of Boston in time
for the celebration of the 274th an
niversary of Cotton's connection with
the church as its teacher In the FAM
/. lily tree preserved by Mr.. Jones the
first of his paternal ancestors listed
is John who died in 1913; Peter Cush-
man Jones. Jr., was seventh of the
line after him. fourth Peter and Sec
ond p c. Jones'
Varied School Career
The subject of this sketch attended
Brimmer school in Boston until 1S47,
among his schoolmates there being
j. B. Atherton, Frank s. Pratt and
Charles Fnrneaux, each of whom made
his mark in Hawaii At 10 years of
age Jones was sent to w. R. Ellis
boarding school, Kingston, Mass,
spending two years there. In the lat
ter part of 1S49 he was placed at Bos-
ton Latin school with the idea of going
20 Harvard college. His teacher,
Charles Hale, was a brother of Ed
ward Everett Hale. From the Latin
he went to Bakers school, staying I'M
til the schoolhouse was partly de-
etroyed in the fire that burned IRE
mont Temple. He then made up his
mind to go into business and entered
the employ of George A Whiting,
father of the late Justice W. A. Whit
ing of the Hawaiian supreme court
His wages the first year were $50 and
find himself; second. 500: third.
$50; fourth. $3.50; fifth, $500. With
part of his first years stipend he
treated himself to nice green over
coat, but on his way home with the
prize slipped and fell into a pool of
moiasses that had been spilled in the
street, and in telling OF the catastro-
phe he humorously connects it with
his career in Hawaii by saying the
first money he ever earned was put
into sugar"
In 1857 Jones made up his mind that