DEATH CLAMES A BELOVED WOMAN
Mrs. S.C. Allen, Whose Life Was Given Over to Unostentatious Charities, the Uplifting of Hawaiian People and Cause of Christianity, Dies on Sixty-fifth Anniversary of Birth.
Mrs. Bathsheba M. Allen, widow of the late Samuel C. Allen, died at her Kaalawai home last night at ten o'clock, after an illness that had been more or less acute for the past two weeks. The direct cause of death was cancer, to check the ravages of which her physicians had been striving desperately.
The news of Mrs. Allen's death will come as a great shock to Honoluluans generally, as the fact of her illness had not been given publicly in the press for fear that the effect of reading about herself in that connection might have a serious result. Up to yesterday morning she had read The Advertiser regularly and at the request of relatives no mention therein was made of her ailment.
Yesterday was the sixty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Allen. She was the daughter of James Robinson of Honolulu and the sister of Mark P. Robinson, vice president of the First National Bank; of Mrs. Matilda Foster, Mrs. Mary E. Foster, Mrs. Victoria Ward, Mrs. A. Jaeger and Mrs. Lucy McWayne, all of Honolulu. She had no children, but adopted her niece, Miss Victoria Kathleen Ward, who became legally Miss Allen.
In 1865 she became the bride of Samuel Clesson Allen, who came to Hawaii from Boston fifteen years before and who was one of the leading citizens of the Territory until his death on May 13, 1903. The bulk of his estate, valued at the time at over two million dollars, was left to his wife. This consisted of business interests in Honolulu, of valuable city and county property and of plantation interests. This, by the terms of the will, became part of the S. C. Allen Trust.
Mrs. Allen, while she has not been much in the public eye so far as press publicity is concerned, has been one of the most useful citizens of the Territory, her quiet charities having been generous and widespread. She was a member of the Kaahumanu Society and a leader among the kamaainas for the uplifting of the Hawaiian people, the advancement of Christianity and the spread of morality. Her helping hand was ever open to legitimate requests or aid, and her charity was broad, undenominational and without knowledge of race or color.
Though arrangements had not been definitely decided upon up to a late hour last night, it is believed that the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon. The services are to be conducted from the town home of Mrs. Allen on Alakea street.
Honolulu Advertiser, Thu. 12 Feb 1914, p. 1
Mrs. S.C. Allen, Whose Life Was Given Over to Unostentatious Charities, the Uplifting of Hawaiian People and Cause of Christianity, Dies on Sixty-fifth Anniversary of Birth.
Mrs. Bathsheba M. Allen, widow of the late Samuel C. Allen, died at her Kaalawai home last night at ten o'clock, after an illness that had been more or less acute for the past two weeks. The direct cause of death was cancer, to check the ravages of which her physicians had been striving desperately.
The news of Mrs. Allen's death will come as a great shock to Honoluluans generally, as the fact of her illness had not been given publicly in the press for fear that the effect of reading about herself in that connection might have a serious result. Up to yesterday morning she had read The Advertiser regularly and at the request of relatives no mention therein was made of her ailment.
Yesterday was the sixty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Allen. She was the daughter of James Robinson of Honolulu and the sister of Mark P. Robinson, vice president of the First National Bank; of Mrs. Matilda Foster, Mrs. Mary E. Foster, Mrs. Victoria Ward, Mrs. A. Jaeger and Mrs. Lucy McWayne, all of Honolulu. She had no children, but adopted her niece, Miss Victoria Kathleen Ward, who became legally Miss Allen.
In 1865 she became the bride of Samuel Clesson Allen, who came to Hawaii from Boston fifteen years before and who was one of the leading citizens of the Territory until his death on May 13, 1903. The bulk of his estate, valued at the time at over two million dollars, was left to his wife. This consisted of business interests in Honolulu, of valuable city and county property and of plantation interests. This, by the terms of the will, became part of the S. C. Allen Trust.
Mrs. Allen, while she has not been much in the public eye so far as press publicity is concerned, has been one of the most useful citizens of the Territory, her quiet charities having been generous and widespread. She was a member of the Kaahumanu Society and a leader among the kamaainas for the uplifting of the Hawaiian people, the advancement of Christianity and the spread of morality. Her helping hand was ever open to legitimate requests or aid, and her charity was broad, undenominational and without knowledge of race or color.
Though arrangements had not been definitely decided upon up to a late hour last night, it is believed that the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon. The services are to be conducted from the town home of Mrs. Allen on Alakea street.
Honolulu Advertiser, Thu. 12 Feb 1914, p. 1
DEATH CLAMES A BELOVED WOMAN
Mrs. S.C. Allen, Whose Life Was Given Over to Unostentatious Charities, the Uplifting of Hawaiian People and Cause of Christianity, Dies on Sixty-fifth Anniversary of Birth.
Mrs. Bathsheba M. Allen, widow of the late Samuel C. Allen, died at her Kaalawai home last night at ten o'clock, after an illness that had been more or less acute for the past two weeks. The direct cause of death was cancer, to check the ravages of which her physicians had been striving desperately.
The news of Mrs. Allen's death will come as a great shock to Honoluluans generally, as the fact of her illness had not been given publicly in the press for fear that the effect of reading about herself in that connection might have a serious result. Up to yesterday morning she had read The Advertiser regularly and at the request of relatives no mention therein was made of her ailment.
Yesterday was the sixty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Allen. She was the daughter of James Robinson of Honolulu and the sister of Mark P. Robinson, vice president of the First National Bank; of Mrs. Matilda Foster, Mrs. Mary E. Foster, Mrs. Victoria Ward, Mrs. A. Jaeger and Mrs. Lucy McWayne, all of Honolulu. She had no children, but adopted her niece, Miss Victoria Kathleen Ward, who became legally Miss Allen.
In 1865 she became the bride of Samuel Clesson Allen, who came to Hawaii from Boston fifteen years before and who was one of the leading citizens of the Territory until his death on May 13, 1903. The bulk of his estate, valued at the time at over two million dollars, was left to his wife. This consisted of business interests in Honolulu, of valuable city and county property and of plantation interests. This, by the terms of the will, became part of the S. C. Allen Trust.
Mrs. Allen, while she has not been much in the public eye so far as press publicity is concerned, has been one of the most useful citizens of the Territory, her quiet charities having been generous and widespread. She was a member of the Kaahumanu Society and a leader among the kamaainas for the uplifting of the Hawaiian people, the advancement of Christianity and the spread of morality. Her helping hand was ever open to legitimate requests or aid, and her charity was broad, undenominational and without knowledge of race or color.
Though arrangements had not been definitely decided upon up to a late hour last night, it is believed that the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon. The services are to be conducted from the town home of Mrs. Allen on Alakea street.
Honolulu Advertiser, Thu. 12 Feb 1914, p. 1
Mrs. S.C. Allen, Whose Life Was Given Over to Unostentatious Charities, the Uplifting of Hawaiian People and Cause of Christianity, Dies on Sixty-fifth Anniversary of Birth.
Mrs. Bathsheba M. Allen, widow of the late Samuel C. Allen, died at her Kaalawai home last night at ten o'clock, after an illness that had been more or less acute for the past two weeks. The direct cause of death was cancer, to check the ravages of which her physicians had been striving desperately.
The news of Mrs. Allen's death will come as a great shock to Honoluluans generally, as the fact of her illness had not been given publicly in the press for fear that the effect of reading about herself in that connection might have a serious result. Up to yesterday morning she had read The Advertiser regularly and at the request of relatives no mention therein was made of her ailment.
Yesterday was the sixty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Allen. She was the daughter of James Robinson of Honolulu and the sister of Mark P. Robinson, vice president of the First National Bank; of Mrs. Matilda Foster, Mrs. Mary E. Foster, Mrs. Victoria Ward, Mrs. A. Jaeger and Mrs. Lucy McWayne, all of Honolulu. She had no children, but adopted her niece, Miss Victoria Kathleen Ward, who became legally Miss Allen.
In 1865 she became the bride of Samuel Clesson Allen, who came to Hawaii from Boston fifteen years before and who was one of the leading citizens of the Territory until his death on May 13, 1903. The bulk of his estate, valued at the time at over two million dollars, was left to his wife. This consisted of business interests in Honolulu, of valuable city and county property and of plantation interests. This, by the terms of the will, became part of the S. C. Allen Trust.
Mrs. Allen, while she has not been much in the public eye so far as press publicity is concerned, has been one of the most useful citizens of the Territory, her quiet charities having been generous and widespread. She was a member of the Kaahumanu Society and a leader among the kamaainas for the uplifting of the Hawaiian people, the advancement of Christianity and the spread of morality. Her helping hand was ever open to legitimate requests or aid, and her charity was broad, undenominational and without knowledge of race or color.
Though arrangements had not been definitely decided upon up to a late hour last night, it is believed that the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon. The services are to be conducted from the town home of Mrs. Allen on Alakea street.
Honolulu Advertiser, Thu. 12 Feb 1914, p. 1
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