Talk:James Jackson Jarves

Article creator may be working on a new article that checks out
The spelling on the name may be incorrect but the article title does have Yahoo hits as author of the first Hawaiian history (see James Jackson Jarves).

Please give the article creator time to complete the article as he/she has created similar articles in the past and builds them on the fly, adding bits and pieces in different edits.

I, too, almost tagged this article but noticed the creator's contrib history. Ronbo76 01:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Also, 'what links here' includes WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hot/J. 71.231.107.188 02:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * In other words, the creation of this article fills a need for a requested article. Ronbo76 02:22, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Vice consul
If you look at the reference provided by the article creator, Jarves may have been a Vice Consul. In the Yahoo hit I cited, he had several run ins with other consuls and was challenged to a duel by one or more. He may have been one of the first newspaper editors for the islands. Ronbo76 01:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

A Better Source For His Written Works
The links for this entry are quite poor, and I would suggest using this link: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Jarves%2C+James+Jackson+1818-1888.%22&type=author&inst=

That is a link to all works by him, and if someone is inclined, each work can be separately linked from that source. As it stands now, the links merely point to websites which aggregate works of numerous authors and requires substantial work from any curious reader.

Beyond that, this long-dead person has serious familial links to Gilded Age icons/ families, but an innocent stumbler would never know it. He died in Europe, his wives died in Europe, and his descendants are noted British aristocracy, yet he's called 'American' rendering that label meaningless (without getting into his obvious unAmerican world-view).