Lawrence McCully (May 28, 1831- April 10, 1892) was a justice of the

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. McCully, son of Charles McCully, was born in New York City on May 28, 1831. About two years later his father moved to

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, from which place the son entered

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at the beginning of Sophomore year. He graduated Yale in 1852. Having taught for several months in a family in

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, and for a year in Kentucky, he then formed a plan of settling in the Hawaiian Islands, where he arrived in December, 1854. The introductions which he brought secured him an appointment as Police Justice of the

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district, which he held from Sept. 1, 1855, until his resignation on April 1, 1857. He then bought land and set out an orange orchard at

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, but in 1858 removed to

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, where he began the study of law in the office of Chief Justice Charles Harris. He was admitted to the

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in March, 1859. In 1860 he was elected to the

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, of which he was chosen Speaker. From April, 1862, he served as Interpreter to the Supreme Court, resigning his office in January, 1865, to become the clerk of the same Court. Six years later he resigned this office also, in order to accept the position of Deputy Attorney-General. On February 1, 1877, he was commissioned as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom, and this position he held until his death. In 1891 he visited Europe, and was prostrated by an attack of the grip in California on his return. His health, which had previously been somewhat delicate, was thus undermined, and he failed gradually until his death, at his home in Honolulu, on April 10, 1892, in his 61st year. Judge McCully was married on May 26, 1866, to Ellen Harvey, of

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, who survived him, with an adopted child.

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