Ferdinand William Hutchison
Ferdinand William Hutchison | |
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Minister of the Interior | |
In office April 26, 1865 – January 10, 1873 | |
Preceded by | Charles Gordon Hopkins |
Succeeded by | Charles Reed Bishop |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1819 Kingdom of Hawaii |
Spouse(s) | Malie Moa, and others |
Children | Ambrose, Christina, William, and others |
Ferdinand William Hutchison (c. 1819 – May 20, 1893) was a British physician and politician in the
Kalaupapa. His surname is often misspelled as Hutchinson.[1]
Life
Son of
described Hutchison:He has sandy hair, sandy mustache, sandy complexion—is altogether one of the sandiest men I ever saw, so to speak: is a tall, stoop-shouldered, middle-aged, lowering-browed, intense-eyed, irascible man, and looks like he might have his little prejudices and partialities. He has got one good point, however — he don't talk.[9][10]
Hutchison was also president of the Board of Health from 1868 to 1873 and was instrumental in the early development and management of the leper settlement of
Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai. Previously as a board member, he had proposed the site as a place of exile after visiting the remote peninsula as a circuit judge.[4] During his tenure as president, Hutchison adopted an economizing attitude to the conditions of the settlement and developed a bias toward the afflicted patients whom he regarded as amoral. One noted later exile was his own son Ambrose K. Hutchison, who was sent to the settlement on January 5, 1879, and became a superintendent of Kalaupapa from 1884 to 1897.[4][6][11] His son never mentioned his father by name, possibly to shield him from the stigma of being related to a leper.[12]
In the early 1850s, while working as a port physician in
Native Hawaiian woman, who was the first of three wives. They had three children: Ambrose K. Hutchison, William Hutchison and Christina Hutchison, who were given to relatives to be raised after their mother's death.[12] His son William had eleven children including a son he named Ambrose Ferdinand after the child's uncle and grandfather.[11] In 1875, Hutchison moved to Australia taking his daughter Christina with him.[11] He died at his residence, in Leichhardt, Sydney on May 20, 1893, at the age of seventy-four, after a long illness.[2]
References
- ^ Tayman 2010, p. 333.
- ^ a b "Dr. Hutchinson Dead – A Former Honoluluan Expires at Sydney". The Hawaiian Star. Vol. I, no. 81. Honolulu. June 30, 1893. p. 5. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Australasian. Melbourne, Victoria. June 17, 1893. p. 42. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
- ^ a b c Tayman 2010, pp. 51–53.
- ^ Kuykendall 1953, p. 126.
- ^ a b Inglis 2013, p. 209.
- ^ Osorio 2002, pp. 138–139.
- ^ Hawaii & Lydecker 1918, pp. 107–121.
- ^ Twain 1975, p. 119.
- ^ Tayman 2010, p. 52.
- ^ a b c Law 2012, pp. 101–103, 413–414.
- ^ a b Tayman 2010, pp. 119–120.
Bibliography
- Hawaii (1918). Lydecker, Robert Colfax (ed.). Roster Legislatures of Hawaii, 1841–1918. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Company. OCLC 60737418.
- Inglis, Kerri A. (2013). Ma'i Lepera: A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. Project MUSE.
- OCLC 47010821.
- Law, Anwei Skinsnes (2012). Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory (Ka Hokuwelowelo). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Project MUSE.
- Osorio, Jon Kamakawiwoʻole (2002). Dismembering Lāhui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. OCLC 48579247.
- Tayman, John (2010). The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai. New York: Simon and Schuster. OCLC 865230373.
- Twain, Mark (1975). Day, Arthur Grove (ed.). Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii. Pacific Classics, no. 5. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. OCLC 1121242.
External links
- Media related to Ferdinand William Hutchison at Wikimedia Commons