Name/Title
Mrs. Rebecca Hualani Ahung Brickwood (R. A.) LymanDescription
Rebecca Hualani Ahung Brickwood (1844–1906)
Rebecca was the only child of Chinese merchant Chun Ahung, a co-founder of Honolulu's Hungtai Co., by his Hawaiian wife Luika, "Louisa."
Her mother—the daughter of Kamoku and her husband Nahili or Kaniliaulaninui, who was the descendant of Kualii, a chief of O'ahu
—was adopted by John Neddles Gilman who gave her the nickname "Chu Chu." (Gilman was an early settler in Hawaii, of Cherokee descent)
After Ahung's death in 1845, Luika "Chu Chu" became the second wife of
Hawaii's Postmaster General, Arthur Peter Brickwood.
Rebecca Hualani Ahung Brickwood, Lyman's future wife, attended
the Royal School at Honolulu, and by June 1859 was an instructor there,
teaching arithmetic and geography. Her Hawaiian name comes from hua lani which means "offspring from heaven" in the Hawaiian Language.
Rufus Anderson Lyman (1842-1910) Hilo born.
Inheriting his mother's interest in observing nearby volcanoes,
Rufus A. Lyman developed a theory for the formation of lava tree molds
discovered on the ranch of fellow missionary son William Herbert Shipman
(who also married the daughter of Hawaiian nobility).
This area is now Lava Tree State Monument. Rufus became Circuit Judge in 1866, Lieutenant Governor of the island in 1868, and served on several other boards and commissions. While working with the Royal Governor Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani, he became her business advisor, helping her build one of the largest land holdings in the islands.
He became tax assessor and collected both taxes and rents on the crown lands. He became friends with King Kamehameha V and wrote a short biography of the king.
In 1878 the Rufus/Rebecca Lyman family moved to the Hāmākua district
and opened the sugarcane plantation in Paʻauhau.
Rufus Lyman's business partners were Samuel Parker, William G. Irwin, and Claus Spreckels. It was headquartered on a cliff about 300 feet above the ocean.
Rufus and Rebecca Lyman had fifteen children,many of whom would become influential in different ways.Created By
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