The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-07-25
Prominent JuriSt
Ends Busy Life
D. L. Wilmington, Influential In Ha-
waiian Affairs Passes Away After
A Long Illness

David Little wilmington, prominent
attorney and jurist of Hawaii, who
died Monday evening in Honolulu, was
well known in Maui.
He came to Honolulu from San
Diego, California, in 1903. Since his
coming there has been no move to-
ward civic betterment, moral, intel
lectual or religious uplift in which he
was not a leader, and in his profess
sion he has been ever in the van.
Though he never sacrificed the rights
of his clients, he took no unfair adj
vantage of his opponents. A man of
strong opinions and great moral ecu
age, he never tempered his course
to the winds of circumstances, but
tenaciously followed the star of right
as he saw it.
Undemonstrative on the surface. he
was yet universally loved and respect
ed. From the youngest typro to the
dean of the bar he was "Uncle Dave"
to all his associates But the kindly
hiShihdlilt lublNdltu uO Will VI HIS
understanding of the sterling charact,
er or belittling of the facile, yet
scholarly mind which combined a
knowledge of the intricate mazes of
the law with a most remarkable bust
ness sense, never stinted on behalf of
those he represented.
Born in Newbury, Mass, on Feb
ruary 2, 1854, he received his AGA
demic bachelors degree at Harvard,
where he won the Phi Beta Kappa
key just 20 years later, and at %
was admitted to the bar in Boston,
after having received the degree of
LII. B. from Boston university in the
same year. Later he practised in his
own home town and was married
there TO Sarah E. Curtis in 1880. In
1886, his wife having died two years
previously, he removed to San Diego,
where in the mex year he married
Marietta bennett Paul who survives
him.
He was chosen a senator of the
state senate of California, serving in
that capacity from 1855 to 1899, serv-
ed on the California commission on
uniformity of legislation from 1897 to
1901, and also as president of the
civic federation Of the California city.
Upon his removal to Honolulu in
1903 he joined the law firm of Castle
e Wilmington, and has directed the
destinies OF that firm since the retire
ment of w. R. Castle, his original
partner. He served on the Hawaiian
commission for uniformity of legisla-
ton from 1910 to 1915, was president
of tn. local bar association from 1910
TO 1912, delegate to the Universal
Congress of Lawyers and Jurists in
ST. Louis in 1904, and at the time of
his death was president of the Uni
versity club.
Under the will of the late J.. B.
Castle Mr.. Wilmington was ~designat-
ed n of the trustees Of The estate,
and to him and his colleagues was
entrusted the duty and privilege of
carrying out n Of The most remark.
able and generous schemes for agri-
cultural education that the mind OF
man ever conceived. Those who are
best acquainted with the peculiar
situation created by that trust feel
that in the loss of Mr.. Wilmington the
project has lost the unusual combina-
ton of legal and business genius most
needed to carry it out to its fullest
fruition.
Besides his widow Mr., Wilmington
is survived by bve ons Leonard,
connected with the Pacific CONNER
cial Advertiser of this city; Paul, re-
Gently promoted to be major in the
medical corps OF the United States
army; Lothrop, Rev. Frederick B, and
bennett, recently returned from his
freshman year at Harvard.
He vas a man of practical ideals,
sturdy righteousness without cant, a
citizen OF whom Honolulu was justly
and such as she could i'll af-
pfouG, .
ford to los,