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Grove Farm Plantation by Bob Krauss w William P Alexander SECOND edition SoftCov
Grove Farm Plantation by Bob Krauss with William P Alexander SECOND EDITION
Soft Cover
431 pages
Copyright 1984
CONTENTS
Foreword to Second Edition v
Foreword to First Edition vii
Mahalo ix
Illustrations xiii
PART I
The Missionary 1
PART II
The Youth 41
PART III
The Pioneer 117
PART IV
The Statesman 173
PART V
The Family 265
PART VI
The Plantation 331
PART VII
The Heritage 393
The Wilcox Family 417
Glossary 423
Index 425
ILLUSTRATIONS
Abner and Lucy Hart Wilcox, 1855 16
Waioli home of Abner and Lucy Wilcox 17
Interior of kitchen in Waioli home 17
George N. Wilcox and Charles H. Wilcox as students at Punahou School 80
George N. Wilcox at time he entered Yale University 80
Judge H. A. Widemann, original owner of Grove Farm 81
George N. Wilcox at time he acquired Grove Farm 81
Thatched roof home of George N. Wilcox at Grove Farm, 1865 144
Lihue Plantation Company mill, 1865 144
Wilcox home at Grove Farm, 1874 145
Lihue Plantation Company mill and ox cart, 1880 145
Palace of Princess Ruth Keelikolani 144
Grove Farm harvesting and hauling crews, 1887 . . . 144
Wilcox home at Grove Farm, 1886 145
Grove Farm office, 1885 145
Bark George N. Wilcox 208
Laysan Island in 1890's, showing guano deposits and gooney bird population 208
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company dock, about 1895 208
Sailing ships in Honolulu Harbor 208
Malumalu School for Boys 209
"Hapai-ko," hand-loading sugar cane into cars 209
A Fowler steam plow, 1893 209
Robert W. T. Purvis, bookkeeper, Capt. Louis Ahlborn, Alfred Holly (Pele) Smith, and E. H. W. Broadbent, Grove Farm managers 240
Grove Farm showing Stable Camp and Lihue Plantation Company mill, 1905 272
First auto on Kauai 272
Harbor at Nawiliwili, Kauai, 1915 272
George Norton Wilcox, 1910 273
Lucy Etta Wilcox Sloggett, director; Henry Digby Sloggett, director and treasurer; Charles Henry Wilcox, general manager; and Ralph Lyman Wilcox, assistant to George N. Wilcox 272
First sled-type sugar cane planter 273
First wheel-type sugar cane planter 273
George N. Wilcox at ceremony marking connection of Koloa and Grove Farm Company's railroad systems, 1930 304
George N. Wilcox's first airplane flight, 1928 304
S. S. Mikahala on the Kauai run, 1915 305
S. S. Hualalai entering Nawiliwili Harbor, 1930 305
Plaque at Nawiliwili honoring George N. Wilcox 305
Elsie Hart Wilcox, director and vice president; Mabel Isabel Wilcox, director and vice president; William Patterson Alexander, manager and vice president; and A. Hebard Case, treasurer and vice president, of Grove Farm 336
Koloa mill, 1948 337
Lihue Plantation Company mill, 1958 337
Grove Farm rock-crushing plant 336
Grove Farm limestone quarry 336
Mauka portion of Grove Farm fields, Haiku Division 337
Makai portion of Grove Farm fields, Haiku Division 337
Grove Farm Koloa mill, 1958 337
Grove Farm's bulk seed cane planter, 1962 368
Aerial view of mechanical equipment used on Grove Farm, 1963 368
Grove Farm harvesting operation, 1964: Pushing cane into windrows, loading and hauling 369
Grove Farm Koloa mill, 1964 368
Nawiliwili Harbor, 1964 368
William Middleton Moragne, manager and vice president, and Gaylord Parke Wilcox, president of Grove Farm Company 369
Wilcox home at Grove Farm, 1958 369
Direct descendants of Abner and Lucy Hart Wilcox: Samuel Whitney Wilcox, director and vice president; Gerald Wilcox Fisher, director; Richard Henry Sloggett, Sr., director; and Albert Hart Wilcox, director and secretary 384
Office of Grove Farm Company, 1964 385
Grove Farm Company Board of Directors, 1963 385
Mabel I. Wilcox, 1970 412
Grove Farm Company Board of Directors, 1981
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