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|parents = [[Abner Wilcox]] <br> Lucy Eliza Hart |
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'''George Norton Wilcox''' ( |
'''George Norton Wilcox''' (August 15, 1839 – January 21, 1933) was a businessman and politician in the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]] and [[Territory of Hawaii]]. |
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==Life== |
==Life== |
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George Norton |
George Norton Wilcox was born in [[Hilo]] August 15, 1839. |
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His father was [[Abner Wilcox]] |
His father was [[Abner Wilcox]] and mother was Lucy Eliza Hart. His parents were in the company of [[List of missionaries to Hawaii|missionaries to Hawaii]] for the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]], sailing in 1836. His parents taught at the [[Haili Church|Hilo Mission]] boarding school founded by [[David Belden Lyman]] and his wife.<ref>{{cite book |title=Portraits of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii |author= Hawaiian Mission Children's Society |url= https://archive.org/details/portraitsofameri00hawarich |year=1901 |location=Honolulu |publisher=Hawaiian Gazette company |page=[https://archive.org/details/portraitsofameri00hawarich/page/70 70]}}</ref> He had one older brother and two younger ones born while at Hilo. |
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In 1846 the family moved to teach at a similar school at the [[ |
In 1846 the family moved to teach at a similar school at the [[Waiʻoli Mission District|Wai{{okina}}oli Mission]] near [[Hanalei, Hawaii]], on the northern coast of the island of [[Kauai|Kaua{{okina}}i]]. There he had four more brothers, although one died young.<ref>{{cite web |title= Waioli Mission nomination form |author= Gary T. Cummins |work= National Register of Historic Places |date= March 24, 1973 |publisher= U.S. National Park Service |url= {{NRHP url|id=73000676}} |access-date= June 26, 2010 }}</ref> |
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He graduated from [[Punahou School]] 1850–1860,<ref>{{cite book |author= |
He graduated from [[Punahou School]] 1850–1860,<ref>{{cite book |author= William DeWitt Alexander |author-link= William DeWitt Alexander |title=Oahu college: list of trustees, presidents, instructors, matrons, librarians, superintendents of grounds and students, 1841-1906. Historical sketch of Oahu college|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GxADAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA89 |year=1907 |publisher=Hawaiian Gazette Company |page=89}}</ref> and worked for [[Samuel Gardner Wilder]] loading a shipload of [[guano]] from [[Jarvis Island]]. He then attended [[Yale]] from 1860 to 1862 where he studied [[civil engineering]] in the [[Sheffield Scientific School]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Yale University |title=Directory of the living non-graduates of Yale university |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bi84AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA136 |year=1910 |publisher=The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor company |page=136}}</ref> |
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When he returned, he and his younger brother Albert worked for [[Robert Crichton Wyllie]] on his [[Princeville, Hawaii|Princeville Plantation]]. Albert would later buy the Princeville Plantation near Hanalei. |
When he returned, he and his younger brother Albert worked for [[Robert Crichton Wyllie]] on his [[Princeville, Hawaii|Princeville Plantation]]. Albert would later buy the Princeville Plantation near Hanalei. |
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George leased and then bought [[Grove Farm (Lihue, Hawaii)|Grove Farm]] from [[Hermann A. Widemann]] (1822–1899) starting in 1864. |
George leased and then bought [[Grove Farm (Lihue, Hawaii)|Grove Farm]] from [[Hermann A. Widemann]] (1822–1899) starting in 1864. |
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Using his engineering training, he designed an irrigation system to bring water from the wet mountains to the [[sugarcane]] fields, an idea later copied by many other planters.<ref name="hist">{{cite web |title= History |work= Grove Farm web site |url= http://www.grovefarm.com/history | |
Using his engineering training, he designed an irrigation system to bring water from the wet mountains to the [[sugarcane]] fields, an idea later copied by many other planters.<ref name="hist">{{cite web |title= History |work= Grove Farm web site |url= http://www.grovefarm.com/history |access-date= June 23, 2010}}</ref> He continued to grow the farm, and invest in related enterprises, such as other plantations on other islands, a guano fertilizer company of his own, and the [[Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company]].<ref>{{cite news |title= He used his power wisely |date= December 27, 1999 |author= Brandon Spraguetgi |work= The Garden Island |url= http://thegardenisland.com/news/article_1b4df1aa-ad44-5d99-8b34-86278d21e491.html |access-date= June 26, 2010}}</ref> |
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In 1880 he was elected to the house of representatives of the [[legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom]]. When the upper house (known as the House of Nobles) became an elected body in 1887, he served in it from 1888 to 1892. He was appointed as Minister of the Interior from November 8, 1892 to January |
In 1880 he was elected to the house of representatives of the [[legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom]]. When the upper house (known as the House of Nobles) became an elected body in 1887, he served in it from 1888 to 1892. He was appointed as Minister of the Interior from November 8, 1892, to January 12, 1893. A few days later the [[overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii]] ended the monarchy. |
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The upper house of the legislature then became the senate of the [[Republic of Hawaii]] where he was elected through 1898.<ref name="office">{{cite web |url= |
The upper house of the legislature then became the senate of the [[Republic of Hawaii]] where he was elected through 1898.<ref name="office">{{cite web |url=http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASHe02d/a4206862.dir/Wilcox,%20George%20N.jpg |title=Wilcox, George N. office record |work=state archives digital collections |publisher=state of Hawaii |access-date=June 26, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320235054/http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASHe02d/a4206862.dir/Wilcox%2C%20George%20N.jpg |archive-date=March 20, 2012 }}</ref> |
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After World War I, when the [[US Army Corps of Engineers]] proposed building a harbor on the island, Wilcox bought the entire bond issue to finance [[Nawiliwili Harbor]].<ref>{{cite news |hdl= 10524/287 |title= U.S. Army on Kaua'i, 1909-1942 |work= Hawaiian Journal of History |publisher=Hawaii Historical Society |volume= 32 |author= William H. Dorrance |year= 1998 |page= 158 }}</ref> |
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He died January 21, 1933.<ref>{{cite news |title= His plantation grew on Kauai |author= Harold Morse |newspaper= [[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |date= October 9, 1999 |url= http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/10/09/news/story9.html | |
He died January 21, 1933.<ref>{{cite news |title= His plantation grew on Kauai |author= Harold Morse |newspaper= [[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |date= October 9, 1999 |url= http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/10/09/news/story9.html |access-date= June 26, 2010 }}</ref> Since he never married, his estate was left to his nephews and nieces. It was one of the largest estates in the territory at the time.<ref>{{cite news |title= George N. Wilcox Dies in Honolulu: Prime Minister of Hawaii in Days of Monarchy Succumbs at the Age of 93. Last of his Yale Class: Sheffield School, '62, No Longer Leads List — Mr. Wilcox Gave Much to Philanthropy |newspaper= [[New York Times]] |date= January 22, 1933 |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60E14F9355F1A7A93C0AB178AD85F478385F9 |access-date= June 26, 2010 }}</ref> |
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==Family and legacy== |
==Family and legacy== |
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Younger brother [[Albert Spencer Wilcox]] was born May 24, 1844, married Luahiwa, and then Emma Mahelona, became a wealthy plantation owner and politician, and died July 7, 1919.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders |year=1925 |publisher= [[Honolulu Star Bulletin]] |editor= George F. Nellist |url= http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/wilcox64bs.txt |chapter= Albert Spencer Wilcox }}</ref> |
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Another younger brother [[Samuel Whitney Wilcox]] was born September 19, 1847, at Wai{{okina}}oli, married Emma Lyman (daughter of the Hilo missionaries), had six children, and died May 23, 1929.<ref>{{cite news|title=Samuel Wilcox, Hawaii Builder, Is Dead At 82|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/274832938/?terms=Samuel+Wilcox|access-date=March 2, 2018|work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin{{Subscription required|via=Newspapers.com}}|date=May 24, 1929|page=3}}</ref> |
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Although Samuel's son |
Although Samuel's youngest son Gaylord inherited the farm, his two prominent daughters were [[Elsie Hart Wilcox]](1874–1954), who became the first female territorial senator of Hawaii, and [[Mabel Isabel Wilcox]] (1882–1978) who led the restoration of the Wai{{okina}}oli and Grove Farm houses into museums.<ref name="elsie">{{cite book |title= Women and children first: the life and times of Elsie Wilcox of Kauaʻi |author= Judith Dean Gething Hughes |publisher= University of Hawaii Press |year= 1996 |isbn= 978-0-8248-1621-6 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=oMHfHY6OAnoC }}</ref> |
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⚫ | [[Wilcox Health]] and George Norton Wilcox Memorial Hospital are named for him; hospital founder Mabel Wilcox was a nurse and commissioner of public health.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wilcoxhealth.org/about-us.aspx|title=Wilcox Memorial Hospital: About us|work=official web site|access-date=June 26, 2010}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Grove Farm was kept in the family until it was sold to [[Steve Case|Stephen McConnell Case]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite news |title= Grove Farm - a house divided: Litigation that divides family stems from sale clouded in suspicions |date= April 23, 2006 |author= Stewart Yerton |newspaper= [[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |url= http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/04/23/news/story03.html | |
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⚫ | [[Wilcox Health]] and Wilcox Memorial Hospital are named for |
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⚫ | The Grove Farm Company (incorporated in 1922) was kept in the family until it was sold to [[Steve Case|Stephen McConnell Case]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite news |title= Grove Farm - a house divided: Litigation that divides family stems from sale clouded in suspicions |date= April 23, 2006 |author= Stewart Yerton |newspaper= [[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |url= http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/04/23/news/story03.html |access-date= June 25, 2010 }}</ref> |
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===Family tree=== |
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| DATE OF BIRTH =August 15, 1839 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH =[[Hilo]], [[Hawaii]] |
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| DATE OF DEATH =January 21, 1933 |
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| PLACE OF DEATH =[[Honolulu]] |
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George Norton Wilcox | |
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Born | Hilo, Hawaii | August 15, 1839
Died | January 21, 1933 | (aged 93)
Nationality | Kingdom of Hawaii, United States |
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Parent(s) | Abner Wilcox Lucy Eliza Hart |
George Norton Wilcox (August 15, 1839 – January 21, 1933) was a businessman and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Territory of Hawaii.
Life
[edit]George Norton Wilcox was born in Hilo August 15, 1839. His father was Abner Wilcox and mother was Lucy Eliza Hart. His parents were in the company of missionaries to Hawaii for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailing in 1836. His parents taught at the Hilo Mission boarding school founded by David Belden Lyman and his wife.[1] He had one older brother and two younger ones born while at Hilo. In 1846 the family moved to teach at a similar school at the Waiʻoli Mission near Hanalei, Hawaii, on the northern coast of the island of Kauaʻi. There he had four more brothers, although one died young.[2]
He graduated from Punahou School 1850–1860,[3] and worked for Samuel Gardner Wilder loading a shipload of guano from Jarvis Island. He then attended Yale from 1860 to 1862 where he studied civil engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School.[4]
When he returned, he and his younger brother Albert worked for Robert Crichton Wyllie on his Princeville Plantation. Albert would later buy the Princeville Plantation near Hanalei. George leased and then bought Grove Farm from Hermann A. Widemann (1822–1899) starting in 1864. Using his engineering training, he designed an irrigation system to bring water from the wet mountains to the sugarcane fields, an idea later copied by many other planters.[5] He continued to grow the farm, and invest in related enterprises, such as other plantations on other islands, a guano fertilizer company of his own, and the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company.[6]
In 1880 he was elected to the house of representatives of the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom. When the upper house (known as the House of Nobles) became an elected body in 1887, he served in it from 1888 to 1892. He was appointed as Minister of the Interior from November 8, 1892, to January 12, 1893. A few days later the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii ended the monarchy. The upper house of the legislature then became the senate of the Republic of Hawaii where he was elected through 1898.[7]
After World War I, when the US Army Corps of Engineers proposed building a harbor on the island, Wilcox bought the entire bond issue to finance Nawiliwili Harbor.[8] He died January 21, 1933.[9] Since he never married, his estate was left to his nephews and nieces. It was one of the largest estates in the territory at the time.[10]
Family and legacy
[edit]Younger brother Albert Spencer Wilcox was born May 24, 1844, married Luahiwa, and then Emma Mahelona, became a wealthy plantation owner and politician, and died July 7, 1919.[11] Another younger brother Samuel Whitney Wilcox was born September 19, 1847, at Waiʻoli, married Emma Lyman (daughter of the Hilo missionaries), had six children, and died May 23, 1929.[12] Although Samuel's youngest son Gaylord inherited the farm, his two prominent daughters were Elsie Hart Wilcox(1874–1954), who became the first female territorial senator of Hawaii, and Mabel Isabel Wilcox (1882–1978) who led the restoration of the Waiʻoli and Grove Farm houses into museums.[13]
Wilcox Health and George Norton Wilcox Memorial Hospital are named for him; hospital founder Mabel Wilcox was a nurse and commissioner of public health.[14]
The Grove Farm Company (incorporated in 1922) was kept in the family until it was sold to Stephen McConnell Case in 2000.[15]
Family tree
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (1901). Portraits of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette company. p. 70.
- ^ Gary T. Cummins (March 24, 1973). "Waioli Mission nomination form". National Register of Historic Places. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ William DeWitt Alexander (1907). Oahu college: list of trustees, presidents, instructors, matrons, librarians, superintendents of grounds and students, 1841-1906. Historical sketch of Oahu college. Hawaiian Gazette Company. p. 89.
- ^ Yale University (1910). Directory of the living non-graduates of Yale university. The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor company. p. 136.
- ^ "History". Grove Farm web site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
- ^ Brandon Spraguetgi (December 27, 1999). "He used his power wisely". The Garden Island. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ "Wilcox, George N. office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ William H. Dorrance (1998). "U.S. Army on Kaua'i, 1909-1942". Hawaiian Journal of History. Vol. 32. Hawaii Historical Society. p. 158. hdl:10524/287.
- ^ Harold Morse (October 9, 1999). "His plantation grew on Kauai". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ "George N. Wilcox Dies in Honolulu: Prime Minister of Hawaii in Days of Monarchy Succumbs at the Age of 93. Last of his Yale Class: Sheffield School, '62, No Longer Leads List — Mr. Wilcox Gave Much to Philanthropy". New York Times. January 22, 1933. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ George F. Nellist, ed. (1925). "Albert Spencer Wilcox". The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Honolulu Star Bulletin.
- ^ "Samuel Wilcox, Hawaii Builder, Is Dead At 82". Honolulu Star-Bulletin – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) . May 24, 1929. p. 3. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
- ^ Judith Dean Gething Hughes (1996). Women and children first: the life and times of Elsie Wilcox of Kauaʻi. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1621-6.
- ^ "Wilcox Memorial Hospital: About us". official web site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ Stewart Yerton (April 23, 2006). "Grove Farm - a house divided: Litigation that divides family stems from sale clouded in suspicions". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
Further reading
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- Bob Krauss; William Patterson Alexander (1984) [1965]. Grove Farm Plantation: the biography of a Hawaiian sugar plantation (2nd ed.). Pacific Books. ISBN 978-0-87015-242-9.
- Barnes Riznik (2005). Mabel Wilcox, RN: Her legacy of caring (2nd ed.). Grove Farm Homestead & Waioli Mission House. ISBN 978-0-9617174-5-2.
- 1839 births
- Hawaiian Kingdom politicians
- 1933 deaths
- Punahou School alumni
- Businesspeople from Hawaii
- Independent (Kuokoa) Party politicians
- Members of the Hawaiian Kingdom House of Representatives
- Members of the Hawaiian Kingdom House of Nobles
- Hawaiian Kingdom Interior Ministers
- People associated with the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom