Name/Title
Andrew Brown (Member of Committee of Safety)Description
Andrew Brown was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 25, 1849,14 and was a citizen of the United Kingdom when he participated in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. When he was 20 years old he moved to Canada, working as a coppersmith. He later lived in San Francisco, employed by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.15 He immigrated to Hawai‘i in 1880. His wife, Sarah (Reade) Brown died in Honolulu on October 11, 1887. He started as a coppersmith at the Honolulu Iron Works about the same year. Initially a member of the Advisory Council of the Provisional Government, Brown left that position when he became the superintendent of Water Works on March 1, 1893.After the overthrow, Brown was granted “special rights of citizenship” by the Republic of Hawai‘i on July 21, 1894. The status gave him the rights of Hawaiian citizenship without having to renounce his United Kingdom citizenship. Superintendent for nearly a decade, Brown wrote an article, titled “The Water System and Supply,” in the January 1, 1902, issue of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Just two years later, he was asked to resign in March 1904 after it was discovered that he had known about embezzlement by one of his employees and had “allowed the alleged
shortage to be made up.” Andrew Brown died on February 19, 1907, after an illness that had lasted two years. The notice of his death called him “a well-known kamaaina” and “one of the men who dethroned the Queen in 1893.”Created By
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