In 1877, King Kalākaua appointed McCully as Second Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, then in 1881, to First Associate Justice and a member of the Privy Council. McCully was married to Miss Ellen Harvey, at the residence of Chief Justice Allen, May 20, 1866. He later became Clerk of the Supreme Court then, he took a position as a deputy attorney general. In 1860, he was elected to the Hawaii Legislature as a representative of Kohala, then was picked speaker of the House.īecause "the practice of law was not very remunerative in those early days," McCully became, in 1862, an interpreter to the Supreme Court and the Police Court in Honolulu. When he moved to Honolulu in 1858, he studied law in the office of Chief Justice Harris and passed the bar in 1859. While on the Big Island, he learned the Hawaiian language. A couple years later, he resigned and moved to Kona, where he bought land and began an orange orchard. He got a job in 1855 as "Police Justice" in Hilo. an educated man, with high sentiments and pure character, a well stored mind, cultivated by reading and foreign travel.” (Chief Justice Judd) Here he stayed “he knew the land of his adoption intimately and greatly to the advantage of the public service. On December 15, 1854, King Kamehameha III died shortly after, McCully, a young man of 23 years, arrived in the Islands with the intent of making it his home. "Without any family, friends or connections in these Islands to call him here, he, as the result of his reading, formed the plan of settling in the Sandwich Islands, and came hither via Panama and California." (star-bulletin) He attended Courtlandt Academy and graduated from Yale in 1852 he was a tutor for a family in New Orleans and later taught school In Kentucky. Lawrence McCully was born in New York City on two years later, the family moved to Oswego, New York.
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