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Jared became an M.D. and accompanied his father back to Kauai to help in medicine there.
He was the victim of apparent assasination while his bride-to-be was waiting for a ship to Hawaii. Killed by the family of a girl for which he was to sign a certificate indicating that she had Leprosy. This certificate would have meant the girl would need to go to the leper colony on Molokai.
(Alexander Smith)
"Dr Jared Knapp Smith was shot dead on September 24, 1897. It was suspected to be in retaliation for ordering patients suspected of leprosy to have tests that might send them to exile in Kalaupapa. Similar tensions had ignited the Leper War on Kaua'i four years earlier. His former law partner Kinney sailed to Kauai Island and was appointed special prosecutor. A native Hawaiian suspect Kapea Kaʻahea was arrested, tried on November 13, 1897, and found guilty of murder in the first degree."
(wikipedia.org)
Dr. Jared K. Smith (1849-1897) carried on his father's medical practice - his life ended tragically when he was murdered by a victim of leprosy. His sister, Juliette, ran the Koloa Industrial School for Boys.
(Smith Family Records, Kaua'i Historical Society, MS43, pg 2)
BURIAL: Smith-Waterhouse cemetery, Koloa, Hawaii. Gravestone picture in James William Smith file at home of Alexander Smith. Gravestone says: Jared K. Smith, Dec. 23, 1849 to Sept. 24, 1897.
Jared became an M.D. and accompanied his father back to Kauai to help in medicine there.
He was the victim of apparent assasination while his bride-to-be was waiting for a ship to Hawaii. Killed by the family of a girl for which he was to sign a certificate indicating that she had Leprosy. This certificate would have meant the girl would need to go to the leper colony on Molokai.
(Alexander Smith)
"Dr Jared Knapp Smith was shot dead on September 24, 1897. It was suspected to be in retaliation for ordering patients suspected of leprosy to have tests that might send them to exile in Kalaupapa. Similar tensions had ignited the Leper War on Kaua'i four years earlier. His former law partner Kinney sailed to Kauai Island and was appointed special prosecutor. A native Hawaiian suspect Kapea Kaʻahea was arrested, tried on November 13, 1897, and found guilty of murder in the first degree."
(wikipedia.org)
Dr. Jared K. Smith (1849-1897) carried on his father's medical practice - his life ended tragically when he was murdered by a victim of leprosy. His sister, Juliette, ran the Koloa Industrial School for Boys.
(Smith Family Records, Kaua'i Historical Society, MS43, pg 2)
BURIAL: Smith-Waterhouse cemetery, Koloa, Hawaii. Gravestone picture in James William Smith file at home of Alexander Smith. Gravestone says: Jared K. Smith, Dec. 23, 1849 to Sept. 24, 1897.
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Jared became an M.D. and accompanied his father back to Kauai to help in medicine there.
He was the victim of apparent assasination while his bride-to-be was waiting for a ship to Hawaii. Killed by the family of a girl for which he was to sign a certificate indicating that she had Leprosy. This certificate would have meant the girl would need to go to the leper colony on Molokai.
(Alexander Smith)
"Dr Jared Knapp Smith was shot dead on September 24, 1897. It was suspected to be in retaliation for ordering patients suspected of leprosy to have tests that might send them to exile in Kalaupapa. Similar tensions had ignited the Leper War on Kaua'i four years earlier. His former law partner Kinney sailed to Kauai Island and was appointed special prosecutor. A native Hawaiian suspect Kapea Kaʻahea was arrested, tried on November 13, 1897, and found guilty of murder in the first degree."
(wikipedia.org)
Dr. Jared K. Smith (1849-1897) carried on his father's medical practice - his life ended tragically when he was murdered by a victim of leprosy. His sister, Juliette, ran the Koloa Industrial School for Boys.
(Smith Family Records, Kaua'i Historical Society, MS43, pg 2)
BURIAL: Smith-Waterhouse cemetery, Koloa, Hawaii. Gravestone picture in James William Smith file at home of Alexander Smith. Gravestone says: Jared K. Smith, Dec. 23, 1849 to Sept. 24, 1897.
Jared became an M.D. and accompanied his father back to Kauai to help in medicine there.
He was the victim of apparent assasination while his bride-to-be was waiting for a ship to Hawaii. Killed by the family of a girl for which he was to sign a certificate indicating that she had Leprosy. This certificate would have meant the girl would need to go to the leper colony on Molokai.
(Alexander Smith)
"Dr Jared Knapp Smith was shot dead on September 24, 1897. It was suspected to be in retaliation for ordering patients suspected of leprosy to have tests that might send them to exile in Kalaupapa. Similar tensions had ignited the Leper War on Kaua'i four years earlier. His former law partner Kinney sailed to Kauai Island and was appointed special prosecutor. A native Hawaiian suspect Kapea Kaʻahea was arrested, tried on November 13, 1897, and found guilty of murder in the first degree."
(wikipedia.org)
Dr. Jared K. Smith (1849-1897) carried on his father's medical practice - his life ended tragically when he was murdered by a victim of leprosy. His sister, Juliette, ran the Koloa Industrial School for Boys.
(Smith Family Records, Kaua'i Historical Society, MS43, pg 2)
BURIAL: Smith-Waterhouse cemetery, Koloa, Hawaii. Gravestone picture in James William Smith file at home of Alexander Smith. Gravestone says: Jared K. Smith, Dec. 23, 1849 to Sept. 24, 1897.
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