Lorrin A. Thurston
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Lorrin Andrews Thurston (July 31, 1858 – May 11, 1931) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman born and raised in the Kingdom of Hawai?i.
Thurston, the grandson of two of the first Christian missionaries to Hawaii, was instrumental in the overthrowrowning of the Hawaiian Kingdom, which replaced Queen Lili?uokalani with the Republic of Hawaii, dominated by American interests.
He also owned other businesses, including the Pacific Commercial Advertiser (a forerunner of the current Honolulu Star-Advertiser) and the Pacific Commercial Advertiser (a forerunner of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser).
He and his colleagues campaigned with national politicians to establish a National Park in order to protect the Hawaiian Volcanoes from 1906 to 1916.
Family life
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on July 31, 1858. Asa Goodale Thurston and his mother, Sarah Andrews, were his father and father. He was grandson of Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston, who were in the first group of American Christian missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820, on his father's side. He was also the grandson of another early missionary, Lorrin Andrews, on his mother's side. His father was speaker of the House of Representatives of Hawaii, but he died when Lorrin was only a year and a half old in December 1859. He and his mother were then moved to Maui.
He was fluent in the Hawaiian language and gave himself the name Kakina in Hawaiian. He played baseball with the sons of Alexander Cartwright (who invented the modern game) at Punahou School, then known as Oahu College in 1872. He was dismissed just before graduation. He spent time as a translator for a law firm and clerk at the Wailuku Sugar Company, and he took law school at Columbia University. He returned to Honolulu in 1881 and joined William Owen Smith in a law firm.
On February 26, 1884, Margaret Clarissa "Clara" Shipman (daughter of missionary William Cornelius Shipman (1824–1861) from Hilo, Hawaii, and sister of businessman William Herbert Shipman) married Margaret Clarissa "Clara" Shipman (1824–1861). On February 1, 1888, they had a son, Robert Shipman Thurston. Margaret died in childbirth on May 5, 1891 (as did the infant). Lorrin Thurston married Harriet Elvira Potter of Saint Joseph, Michigan, on April 5, 1893. Margaret Carter (the mother of Thurston Twigg-Smith) in 1895 and their son Lorrin Potter Thurston in 1899. Lorrin Andrews Thurston died on May 11, 1931. Robert Thurston married Evelyn M. Scott in 1919, and Margaret Carter married William Twigg-Smith.