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Collection Reference Number GLC04730
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1870s 
Title Document regarding the estate of Hawaii's Dowager Queen Emma
Date 13 May 1874
Author Cartwright, Alexander Joy (1820-1892)  
Document Type Business and financial document
Content Description Serving as the administrator for the estate of Dowager Queen Emma, Cartwright confirms a sum of money Frank Pratt owes the estate. Also records that H. A. Wactman owes Emma's estate $1000.
Subjects Estate  Finance  Debt  Hawaii  Women's History  
People Cartwright, Alexander Joy (1820-1892)  Pratt, Frank S. (fl. 1874)  Rooke, Emma Naea (1836-1885)  Wactman, H. A. (fl. 1874)  
Place written Honolulu, Hawaii
Theme Banking & Economics; Women in American History
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Dowager Queen Emma was the widow of Kamehameha IV, King of Hawaii 1854-1862. Alexander Cartwright, credited for formalizing the rules of baseball, made residence in Hawaii in 1849.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945