Honolulu. Sketches of the Life, Social, Political and Religious in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861

Honolulu: The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1928 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Pp. xii, 209. Frontis portrait. Appendices, index. Red cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Mild darkening to gutters of endpapers from publisher's glue, lower corner lightly jammed. A fine and clean copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket slightly chipped and soiled). Reprinted from the original edition by the families of Gerrit and Laura Judd's children to celebrate the centenary of the Judd's arrival in Hawaii on March 31, 1828. Includes a supplementary sketch of events to 1880. This copy with a Presentation Inscription, Signed to Major General William Lassiter from Laurence M. Judd, dated 1931. Lawrence McCully Judd (1887-1968) was born in Honolulu, the grandson of Gerrit P. Judd and the author. He was the seventh Territorial Governor of Hawaii (1929-1934). Devoted to the Hansen's Disease-afflicted residents of Kalaupapa on Molokai, having made several fact-finding tours during his tenure in the Hawaii State Senate and having overhauled the system of governance in the leper colony as Territorial Governor, Judd became Kalaupapa's resident superintendent in 1947. He temporarily served as Territorial Governor of American Samoa from March 4 to August 4, 1953. Major General William Lassiter was the Commander of the Hawaiian Department of the U.S. Army Pacific Command, 1930-1931. A wonderful association copy!.