Word: judd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judds. No political carpet-bagger or "malihini" (stranger), Lawrence McCully Judd is a native of the Islands as was his father before him. He is a "Kamaaina" (friendly old-timer), "oluolu" (sympathetic) to the native population. For a century his family's history has paralleled Hawaii...
...Parthian rounded the horn, sailed northwestward. Aboard with his wife was Dr. Gerrit P. Judd. a Yankee physician sent out by the American Board of Missions. For 14 years Dr. Judd ministered to the Hawaiians, body and soul, helping with many another missionary to persuade them from idolatry to Christianity. The work of the early missionaries in Hawaii was so well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics...
Missionary Judd was more than a spiritual adviser to the Hawaiians. He was one of the first foreigners to foreswear his U. S. allegiance and become a subject of King Kamahameha III (1832-1854). He aided in establishing the first constitutional monarchy on the Islands. He served his brown-skinned monarch as Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Interior...
...Judd had been in Hawaiian service one year when the British ship Carysfort, Captain George Paulet commanding, sailed into Honolulu Harbor, prepared to take possession of the Island of Oahu. King Kamahameha, frightened, ceded his kingdom, fled to Maui, left Dr. Judd as his agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu...
With the kingdom saved for his sovereign, Dr. Judd negotiated treaties with France, Great Britain and the U. S., guaranteeing Hawaii's independence...