James Frank Woods was a major landowner during the Kingdom of Hawaii who was related to royalty and many civil leaders.
His father was James Woods, who was born in Liverpool, England in 1845, and came to the Hawaiian Islands in 1860 to work for Janion amp Green , which had been based in England. In 1866 his father moved to the cattleranching area known as Waimea where he worked to import improved cattle breeds to replace the wild cattle that had previously roamed the island of Hawai i. He served in a number of government posts in the Kohala district including a term in the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and eventually became part owner of several sugarcane plantations in Hawaii and cattle ranches.
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