Judge McCully Passes Away After a Lingering Illness. Full Account of His Life and Work.
Honorable Lawrence McCully died at his residence at Pawaa, Honolulu, at 7 o'clock A. M., on Sunday, the 10th of April. He was First Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and a member of the Privy Council of State. He was born in New York City on the 28th of May, 1831, and was, therefore, in his 61st year at the time of his decease. When but two years old his father removed with his family to Oswego, New York, and this was his home until he became a man. He was fitted for college at the Courtlandt academy, in Homer, New York, and then entered Yale, graduating therefrom in 1852, when 21 years of age. After this he was a tutor in a Southern family in New Orleans and later taught school in Kentucky. Without any family friends or connections in these Islands to call him here, he, as the result of his reading, formed the plan of settling in the Sandwich Islands, and came hither via Panama and California, arriving in December, 1854, just after the death of Kamehameha III. He brought letters to Chief Justice Lee and Hon. C. R. Bishop, and was soon sent to Hilo as Police Justice. He served in this capacity from 1st September, 1855, to April 1st, 1857, when he resigned and went to Kona, Hawaii, bought land and began an orange orchard. Some two hundred orange trees planted by him are now bearing, and one of the last acts of his life was to eat some of their fruit. While at Hilo and in Kona he was necessarily brought in close contact with Hawaiians and readily learned the vernacular which proved of great advantage to him. Removing to Honolulu in 1858, he studied law in the office of the late Chief Justice Harris and was admitted to the bar on the 11th of March, 1859, during the incumbency of the late Chief Justice Allen. Of the attorneys, both native and foreign, admitted previous to Judge McCully, there survive only Messrs. J. W. Austin and E. P. Bond, of Boston, and Messrs. S. L. Austin, D. H. and E. G. Hitchcock, of Hilo.
At the general election of 1860 Judge McCully was solicited to stand as a candidate for Representative of Kohala, Hawaii, and without going personally to the district or expending one cent on the campaign, he was elected. On the convening of the Legislature in May of that year, he was elected Speaker of the House. It will be remembered that under the Constitution of 1852, the Legislature consisted of a House of Nobles and a House of Representatives, sitting separately. Among his fellow Representatives were J. I. Dowsett, H. A. Widemann, V. Knudsen and D. D. Baldwin.
The practice of law was not very remunerative in those early days, and Judge McCully took the office of Interpreter to the Supreme Court and Police Court of Honolulu on the 1st of April, 1862, which position he held until the 2d January, 1865, when he resigned to take the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court, having acted as Deputy Clerk from April 20th, 1864, to November 30th of the same year. His incumbency of the Chief Clerkship continued until the 30th January, 1871, when he resigned to go into the Attorney-General's office as the Deputy of MR. S. H. Phillips. His five and a half years' service as Clerk of the Supreme Court left abundant evidence of his accuracy and fidelity, as the records of the Court will testify.
As Deputy Attorney-General, under four successive Attorney-Generals, Mr. McCully, on the meagre pay of $100 per month, conducted the public prosecutions at the various circuits, which added greatly to his experience and learning as a lawyer. In the year 1876, he revisited the United States, went to the Centennial Exhibition of that year and attended a course of law lectures at Harvard University. Returning to his home, he was elevated to the Bench on the 1st February, 1877, receiving His Majesty Kalakaua's commission as Second Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on the promotion of Mr. Harris to the Chief Justiceship and Mr. Judd to the position of First Associate. On the 5th of November, 1881, he was again promoted, and was commissioned First Associate on the accession of Mr. Judd to the Chief Justiceship. This office, which included the Vice-Chancellorship, he held until his death. Volumes 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Hawaiian Reports contain decisions from his facile pen and cultivated brain. He was thoroughly familiar with our system of land tenures and local usages. His service as Commissioner of Boundaries and as Compiler of the Statutes, which labor was completed in 1889, added much to his efficiency as a Judge. Judge McCully was a man of scholarly tastes, as his well-selected library will testify. He was fond of the classics, reading Latin with ease. His interest in the land of his adoption was great, and the frequent papers read by him on economic questions before the Social Science Association were of great practical value. He twice visited Europe—once in 1883 and again in 1891, traveling intelligently, delighting in historical associations and in the liberal arts. Judge McCully was a religious man, not ostentatiously so, but reverential in conduct and devoted to his church. His pure habits and stainless life, his unimpeachable integrity and firmness of character afford an example worthy of imitation.
He was a graceful extempore speaker. Few who heard his account of the proceedings of the Congregational Conference of London, delivered without notes at the Central Union on the 3d of January last, will forget the intense interest his address created not only from the thoughts expressed, but from the pleasant, conversational manner of delivery.
Judge McCully generally enjoyed good health until the later part of 1883, when some evidence of cardiac difficulty appeared. This did not interrupt his attention to his judicial duties nor interfere seriously with a cherished plan of revisiting Europe. He left for Europe on the 21st April, 1891, and returned here on the 18th of December, attended the special term of the court in that month, and presided for a fortnight at the January term, 1892, when it was evident that the attack of grip which he received in California on his way home had reduced his strength too much for further continuance. From this time he failed, with occasional returns of strength which gave some hope that he might live for some time longer. Last Thursday evening, however, he began to fail rapidly and finally sank to rest surrounded by wife and dear friends who had administered every comfort possible to him.
His funeral will take place as elsewhere announced.
Judge McCully was married on the 26th May, 1866, to Miss Ellen Harvey, at the residence of Chief Justice Allen. To his widow, whose charitable and religious efforts among the poor and neglected in our community the departed encouraged, we tender our sympathy at the loss of the beloved companion of over a quarter of a century. Judge McCully leaves a brother, Rev. Chas. G. McCully, of Calais, Maine, and a sister, Miss Anna McCully, of Tokio [sic], Japan, both of whom have visited their brother in his island home.
Hawaii will long mourn the loss of one of her faithful, adopted citizens and the department he so ably served will miss the upright and devoted judge. (The Honolulu Advertiser, Mon 11 Apr 1892 p. 5)
Honorable Lawrence McCully died at his residence at Pawaa, Honolulu, at 7 o'clock A. M., on Sunday, the 10th of April. He was First Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and a member of the Privy Council of State. He was born in New York City on the 28th of May, 1831, and was, therefore, in his 61st year at the time of his decease. When but two years old his father removed with his family to Oswego, New York, and this was his home until he became a man. He was fitted for college at the Courtlandt academy, in Homer, New York, and then entered Yale, graduating therefrom in 1852, when 21 years of age. After this he was a tutor in a Southern family in New Orleans and later taught school in Kentucky. Without any family friends or connections in these Islands to call him here, he, as the result of his reading, formed the plan of settling in the Sandwich Islands, and came hither via Panama and California, arriving in December, 1854, just after the death of Kamehameha III. He brought letters to Chief Justice Lee and Hon. C. R. Bishop, and was soon sent to Hilo as Police Justice. He served in this capacity from 1st September, 1855, to April 1st, 1857, when he resigned and went to Kona, Hawaii, bought land and began an orange orchard. Some two hundred orange trees planted by him are now bearing, and one of the last acts of his life was to eat some of their fruit. While at Hilo and in Kona he was necessarily brought in close contact with Hawaiians and readily learned the vernacular which proved of great advantage to him. Removing to Honolulu in 1858, he studied law in the office of the late Chief Justice Harris and was admitted to the bar on the 11th of March, 1859, during the incumbency of the late Chief Justice Allen. Of the attorneys, both native and foreign, admitted previous to Judge McCully, there survive only Messrs. J. W. Austin and E. P. Bond, of Boston, and Messrs. S. L. Austin, D. H. and E. G. Hitchcock, of Hilo.
At the general election of 1860 Judge McCully was solicited to stand as a candidate for Representative of Kohala, Hawaii, and without going personally to the district or expending one cent on the campaign, he was elected. On the convening of the Legislature in May of that year, he was elected Speaker of the House. It will be remembered that under the Constitution of 1852, the Legislature consisted of a House of Nobles and a House of Representatives, sitting separately. Among his fellow Representatives were J. I. Dowsett, H. A. Widemann, V. Knudsen and D. D. Baldwin.
The practice of law was not very remunerative in those early days, and Judge McCully took the office of Interpreter to the Supreme Court and Police Court of Honolulu on the 1st of April, 1862, which position he held until the 2d January, 1865, when he resigned to take the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court, having acted as Deputy Clerk from April 20th, 1864, to November 30th of the same year. His incumbency of the Chief Clerkship continued until the 30th January, 1871, when he resigned to go into the Attorney-General's office as the Deputy of MR. S. H. Phillips. His five and a half years' service as Clerk of the Supreme Court left abundant evidence of his accuracy and fidelity, as the records of the Court will testify.
As Deputy Attorney-General, under four successive Attorney-Generals, Mr. McCully, on the meagre pay of $100 per month, conducted the public prosecutions at the various circuits, which added greatly to his experience and learning as a lawyer. In the year 1876, he revisited the United States, went to the Centennial Exhibition of that year and attended a course of law lectures at Harvard University. Returning to his home, he was elevated to the Bench on the 1st February, 1877, receiving His Majesty Kalakaua's commission as Second Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on the promotion of Mr. Harris to the Chief Justiceship and Mr. Judd to the position of First Associate. On the 5th of November, 1881, he was again promoted, and was commissioned First Associate on the accession of Mr. Judd to the Chief Justiceship. This office, which included the Vice-Chancellorship, he held until his death. Volumes 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Hawaiian Reports contain decisions from his facile pen and cultivated brain. He was thoroughly familiar with our system of land tenures and local usages. His service as Commissioner of Boundaries and as Compiler of the Statutes, which labor was completed in 1889, added much to his efficiency as a Judge. Judge McCully was a man of scholarly tastes, as his well-selected library will testify. He was fond of the classics, reading Latin with ease. His interest in the land of his adoption was great, and the frequent papers read by him on economic questions before the Social Science Association were of great practical value. He twice visited Europe—once in 1883 and again in 1891, traveling intelligently, delighting in historical associations and in the liberal arts. Judge McCully was a religious man, not ostentatiously so, but reverential in conduct and devoted to his church. His pure habits and stainless life, his unimpeachable integrity and firmness of character afford an example worthy of imitation.
He was a graceful extempore speaker. Few who heard his account of the proceedings of the Congregational Conference of London, delivered without notes at the Central Union on the 3d of January last, will forget the intense interest his address created not only from the thoughts expressed, but from the pleasant, conversational manner of delivery.
Judge McCully generally enjoyed good health until the later part of 1883, when some evidence of cardiac difficulty appeared. This did not interrupt his attention to his judicial duties nor interfere seriously with a cherished plan of revisiting Europe. He left for Europe on the 21st April, 1891, and returned here on the 18th of December, attended the special term of the court in that month, and presided for a fortnight at the January term, 1892, when it was evident that the attack of grip which he received in California on his way home had reduced his strength too much for further continuance. From this time he failed, with occasional returns of strength which gave some hope that he might live for some time longer. Last Thursday evening, however, he began to fail rapidly and finally sank to rest surrounded by wife and dear friends who had administered every comfort possible to him.
His funeral will take place as elsewhere announced.
Judge McCully was married on the 26th May, 1866, to Miss Ellen Harvey, at the residence of Chief Justice Allen. To his widow, whose charitable and religious efforts among the poor and neglected in our community the departed encouraged, we tender our sympathy at the loss of the beloved companion of over a quarter of a century. Judge McCully leaves a brother, Rev. Chas. G. McCully, of Calais, Maine, and a sister, Miss Anna McCully, of Tokio [sic], Japan, both of whom have visited their brother in his island home.
Hawaii will long mourn the loss of one of her faithful, adopted citizens and the department he so ably served will miss the upright and devoted judge. (The Honolulu Advertiser, Mon 11 Apr 1892 p. 5)
Judge McCully Passes Away After a Lingering Illness. Full Account of His Life and Work.
Honorable Lawrence McCully died at his residence at Pawaa, Honolulu, at 7 o'clock A. M., on Sunday, the 10th of April. He was First Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and a member of the Privy Council of State. He was born in New York City on the 28th of May, 1831, and was, therefore, in his 61st year at the time of his decease. When but two years old his father removed with his family to Oswego, New York, and this was his home until he became a man. He was fitted for college at the Courtlandt academy, in Homer, New York, and then entered Yale, graduating therefrom in 1852, when 21 years of age. After this he was a tutor in a Southern family in New Orleans and later taught school in Kentucky. Without any family friends or connections in these Islands to call him here, he, as the result of his reading, formed the plan of settling in the Sandwich Islands, and came hither via Panama and California, arriving in December, 1854, just after the death of Kamehameha III. He brought letters to Chief Justice Lee and Hon. C. R. Bishop, and was soon sent to Hilo as Police Justice. He served in this capacity from 1st September, 1855, to April 1st, 1857, when he resigned and went to Kona, Hawaii, bought land and began an orange orchard. Some two hundred orange trees planted by him are now bearing, and one of the last acts of his life was to eat some of their fruit. While at Hilo and in Kona he was necessarily brought in close contact with Hawaiians and readily learned the vernacular which proved of great advantage to him. Removing to Honolulu in 1858, he studied law in the office of the late Chief Justice Harris and was admitted to the bar on the 11th of March, 1859, during the incumbency of the late Chief Justice Allen. Of the attorneys, both native and foreign, admitted previous to Judge McCully, there survive only Messrs. J. W. Austin and E. P. Bond, of Boston, and Messrs. S. L. Austin, D. H. and E. G. Hitchcock, of Hilo.
At the general election of 1860 Judge McCully was solicited to stand as a candidate for Representative of Kohala, Hawaii, and without going personally to the district or expending one cent on the campaign, he was elected. On the convening of the Legislature in May of that year, he was elected Speaker of the House. It will be remembered that under the Constitution of 1852, the Legislature consisted of a House of Nobles and a House of Representatives, sitting separately. Among his fellow Representatives were J. I. Dowsett, H. A. Widemann, V. Knudsen and D. D. Baldwin.
The practice of law was not very remunerative in those early days, and Judge McCully took the office of Interpreter to the Supreme Court and Police Court of Honolulu on the 1st of April, 1862, which position he held until the 2d January, 1865, when he resigned to take the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court, having acted as Deputy Clerk from April 20th, 1864, to November 30th of the same year. His incumbency of the Chief Clerkship continued until the 30th January, 1871, when he resigned to go into the Attorney-General's office as the Deputy of MR. S. H. Phillips. His five and a half years' service as Clerk of the Supreme Court left abundant evidence of his accuracy and fidelity, as the records of the Court will testify.
As Deputy Attorney-General, under four successive Attorney-Generals, Mr. McCully, on the meagre pay of $100 per month, conducted the public prosecutions at the various circuits, which added greatly to his experience and learning as a lawyer. In the year 1876, he revisited the United States, went to the Centennial Exhibition of that year and attended a course of law lectures at Harvard University. Returning to his home, he was elevated to the Bench on the 1st February, 1877, receiving His Majesty Kalakaua's commission as Second Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on the promotion of Mr. Harris to the Chief Justiceship and Mr. Judd to the position of First Associate. On the 5th of November, 1881, he was again promoted, and was commissioned First Associate on the accession of Mr. Judd to the Chief Justiceship. This office, which included the Vice-Chancellorship, he held until his death. Volumes 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Hawaiian Reports contain decisions from his facile pen and cultivated brain. He was thoroughly familiar with our system of land tenures and local usages. His service as Commissioner of Boundaries and as Compiler of the Statutes, which labor was completed in 1889, added much to his efficiency as a Judge. Judge McCully was a man of scholarly tastes, as his well-selected library will testify. He was fond of the classics, reading Latin with ease. His interest in the land of his adoption was great, and the frequent papers read by him on economic questions before the Social Science Association were of great practical value. He twice visited Europe—once in 1883 and again in 1891, traveling intelligently, delighting in historical associations and in the liberal arts. Judge McCully was a religious man, not ostentatiously so, but reverential in conduct and devoted to his church. His pure habits and stainless life, his unimpeachable integrity and firmness of character afford an example worthy of imitation.
He was a graceful extempore speaker. Few who heard his account of the proceedings of the Congregational Conference of London, delivered without notes at the Central Union on the 3d of January last, will forget the intense interest his address created not only from the thoughts expressed, but from the pleasant, conversational manner of delivery.
Judge McCully generally enjoyed good health until the later part of 1883, when some evidence of cardiac difficulty appeared. This did not interrupt his attention to his judicial duties nor interfere seriously with a cherished plan of revisiting Europe. He left for Europe on the 21st April, 1891, and returned here on the 18th of December, attended the special term of the court in that month, and presided for a fortnight at the January term, 1892, when it was evident that the attack of grip which he received in California on his way home had reduced his strength too much for further continuance. From this time he failed, with occasional returns of strength which gave some hope that he might live for some time longer. Last Thursday evening, however, he began to fail rapidly and finally sank to rest surrounded by wife and dear friends who had administered every comfort possible to him.
His funeral will take place as elsewhere announced.
Judge McCully was married on the 26th May, 1866, to Miss Ellen Harvey, at the residence of Chief Justice Allen. To his widow, whose charitable and religious efforts among the poor and neglected in our community the departed encouraged, we tender our sympathy at the loss of the beloved companion of over a quarter of a century. Judge McCully leaves a brother, Rev. Chas. G. McCully, of Calais, Maine, and a sister, Miss Anna McCully, of Tokio [sic], Japan, both of whom have visited their brother in his island home.
Hawaii will long mourn the loss of one of her faithful, adopted citizens and the department he so ably served will miss the upright and devoted judge. (The Honolulu Advertiser, Mon 11 Apr 1892 p. 5)
Honorable Lawrence McCully died at his residence at Pawaa, Honolulu, at 7 o'clock A. M., on Sunday, the 10th of April. He was First Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and a member of the Privy Council of State. He was born in New York City on the 28th of May, 1831, and was, therefore, in his 61st year at the time of his decease. When but two years old his father removed with his family to Oswego, New York, and this was his home until he became a man. He was fitted for college at the Courtlandt academy, in Homer, New York, and then entered Yale, graduating therefrom in 1852, when 21 years of age. After this he was a tutor in a Southern family in New Orleans and later taught school in Kentucky. Without any family friends or connections in these Islands to call him here, he, as the result of his reading, formed the plan of settling in the Sandwich Islands, and came hither via Panama and California, arriving in December, 1854, just after the death of Kamehameha III. He brought letters to Chief Justice Lee and Hon. C. R. Bishop, and was soon sent to Hilo as Police Justice. He served in this capacity from 1st September, 1855, to April 1st, 1857, when he resigned and went to Kona, Hawaii, bought land and began an orange orchard. Some two hundred orange trees planted by him are now bearing, and one of the last acts of his life was to eat some of their fruit. While at Hilo and in Kona he was necessarily brought in close contact with Hawaiians and readily learned the vernacular which proved of great advantage to him. Removing to Honolulu in 1858, he studied law in the office of the late Chief Justice Harris and was admitted to the bar on the 11th of March, 1859, during the incumbency of the late Chief Justice Allen. Of the attorneys, both native and foreign, admitted previous to Judge McCully, there survive only Messrs. J. W. Austin and E. P. Bond, of Boston, and Messrs. S. L. Austin, D. H. and E. G. Hitchcock, of Hilo.
At the general election of 1860 Judge McCully was solicited to stand as a candidate for Representative of Kohala, Hawaii, and without going personally to the district or expending one cent on the campaign, he was elected. On the convening of the Legislature in May of that year, he was elected Speaker of the House. It will be remembered that under the Constitution of 1852, the Legislature consisted of a House of Nobles and a House of Representatives, sitting separately. Among his fellow Representatives were J. I. Dowsett, H. A. Widemann, V. Knudsen and D. D. Baldwin.
The practice of law was not very remunerative in those early days, and Judge McCully took the office of Interpreter to the Supreme Court and Police Court of Honolulu on the 1st of April, 1862, which position he held until the 2d January, 1865, when he resigned to take the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court, having acted as Deputy Clerk from April 20th, 1864, to November 30th of the same year. His incumbency of the Chief Clerkship continued until the 30th January, 1871, when he resigned to go into the Attorney-General's office as the Deputy of MR. S. H. Phillips. His five and a half years' service as Clerk of the Supreme Court left abundant evidence of his accuracy and fidelity, as the records of the Court will testify.
As Deputy Attorney-General, under four successive Attorney-Generals, Mr. McCully, on the meagre pay of $100 per month, conducted the public prosecutions at the various circuits, which added greatly to his experience and learning as a lawyer. In the year 1876, he revisited the United States, went to the Centennial Exhibition of that year and attended a course of law lectures at Harvard University. Returning to his home, he was elevated to the Bench on the 1st February, 1877, receiving His Majesty Kalakaua's commission as Second Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on the promotion of Mr. Harris to the Chief Justiceship and Mr. Judd to the position of First Associate. On the 5th of November, 1881, he was again promoted, and was commissioned First Associate on the accession of Mr. Judd to the Chief Justiceship. This office, which included the Vice-Chancellorship, he held until his death. Volumes 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Hawaiian Reports contain decisions from his facile pen and cultivated brain. He was thoroughly familiar with our system of land tenures and local usages. His service as Commissioner of Boundaries and as Compiler of the Statutes, which labor was completed in 1889, added much to his efficiency as a Judge. Judge McCully was a man of scholarly tastes, as his well-selected library will testify. He was fond of the classics, reading Latin with ease. His interest in the land of his adoption was great, and the frequent papers read by him on economic questions before the Social Science Association were of great practical value. He twice visited Europe—once in 1883 and again in 1891, traveling intelligently, delighting in historical associations and in the liberal arts. Judge McCully was a religious man, not ostentatiously so, but reverential in conduct and devoted to his church. His pure habits and stainless life, his unimpeachable integrity and firmness of character afford an example worthy of imitation.
He was a graceful extempore speaker. Few who heard his account of the proceedings of the Congregational Conference of London, delivered without notes at the Central Union on the 3d of January last, will forget the intense interest his address created not only from the thoughts expressed, but from the pleasant, conversational manner of delivery.
Judge McCully generally enjoyed good health until the later part of 1883, when some evidence of cardiac difficulty appeared. This did not interrupt his attention to his judicial duties nor interfere seriously with a cherished plan of revisiting Europe. He left for Europe on the 21st April, 1891, and returned here on the 18th of December, attended the special term of the court in that month, and presided for a fortnight at the January term, 1892, when it was evident that the attack of grip which he received in California on his way home had reduced his strength too much for further continuance. From this time he failed, with occasional returns of strength which gave some hope that he might live for some time longer. Last Thursday evening, however, he began to fail rapidly and finally sank to rest surrounded by wife and dear friends who had administered every comfort possible to him.
His funeral will take place as elsewhere announced.
Judge McCully was married on the 26th May, 1866, to Miss Ellen Harvey, at the residence of Chief Justice Allen. To his widow, whose charitable and religious efforts among the poor and neglected in our community the departed encouraged, we tender our sympathy at the loss of the beloved companion of over a quarter of a century. Judge McCully leaves a brother, Rev. Chas. G. McCully, of Calais, Maine, and a sister, Miss Anna McCully, of Tokio [sic], Japan, both of whom have visited their brother in his island home.
Hawaii will long mourn the loss of one of her faithful, adopted citizens and the department he so ably served will miss the upright and devoted judge. (The Honolulu Advertiser, Mon 11 Apr 1892 p. 5)
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