[2] Juliette Montague and Amos Starr Cooke were on the same ship, the eighth company of missionaries from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions which arrived on April 9, 1837.
Upon arrival in Honolulu as a layman he soon started to manage the financial affairs of the Mission, while his friend Amos Starr Cooke and his wife opened the Royal School.
He was assigned a house originally built for Reverend Ephriam Weston Clark near Kawaiahaʻo Church.
Initially they ran a general store in Honolulu, and continued to help the missions with financial matters through the Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
During the 1860s, Castle & Cooke expanded into the business of selling sugar from the growing number of sugarcane plantations in Hawaii, often investing in them as well.
[10] Their grandson was all-American football player Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr.[11] He returned to the United States and married Mary Tenney (October 26, 1819 – March 13, 1907), the sister of Angeline, his first wife, on November 13, 1842, in West Exeter, New York.
Atherton took over the helm of Castle and Cooke [16] Most of the family is buried across the street from the homestead at Kawaiahaʻo Church.
Many of the early grants were to schools based on the ideas of John Dewey, who was a colleague of her son-in-law Mead.
[18] The Henry and Dorothy Castle Memorial Kindergarten was established honoring her son and granddaughter in their former homestead.
It was designed by architects Clinton Briggs Ripley and Charles William Dickey, with many additional buildings added through the years.