Ladd & Co.
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Ladd & Company was an early business partnership in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Its founders were William Ladd, Peter Allen Brinsmade, and William Northey Hooper. The company was behind the first commercia
Ruins of the Ladd sugar mill
King Leopold was expected to be their investor
William Little Lee
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William Little Lee was an American lawyer who became the first chief justice of the Supreme Court for the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Ladd & Co.
…which were treated as entertaining theater by the Honolulu residents, Ladd & Co. gave up recovering anything. By October 1846 Charles Reed Bishop and William Little Lee arrived from New York. Lee would organize a court system and become its chief justice. Bishop would help sort out the accounts of Ladd & Co., then start…
Lee on left, with Charles Reed Bishop in 1846