Samuel Northrup Castle

Samuel Northrup Castle (August 12, 1808 –July 14, 1894) was a businessman and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Early life Samuel Northrup Castle was born August 12, 1808, in Cazenovia, New York. His middle name is sometimes spelled "Northrop". His father was Samuel Castle (1770–1847) whose mother was Eunice Northrup (1743–1807), and his mother was Phoebe Parmelee. He married Angeline Lorraine Tenney (1810–1841). He became a bank teller in Cleveland, Ohio. On December 14, 1836, the Castles sailed from Boston on the Mary Frazier. 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. Career 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. He lived there with his family the remainder of his life. Some of the houses in this complex (including the storehouse he managed) have been restored and became the Mission Houses Museum.