William Herbert Shipman [SEP] father
"Willie" Shipman) was born December 17, 1854, at Lahaina, Hawaii, the son of missionary parents, William Cornelius Shipman (1824–1861) and Jane Stobie Shipman (1827–1904). William Herbert's parents were newly married in July 1853, when the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent them to Micronesia.
While on their way to their assignment, William Cornelius and Jane were told to disembark from their ship "Chaica" in Maui because Dwight Baldwin was acting as a physician on that island and Micronesia
brother, Oliver Taylor Shipman (1857–1942), became a businessman and local government official.
W. H. Shipman and his wife Mary had five daughters - Mary Mikahala, Clara, Caroline, Florence Lukini, and Margaret Beatrice, and 3 sons - William Reed, Oliver B., and Herber Cornelius, of whom only the youngest, Herbert Cornelius, survived his father. William Herbert Shipman died on July 8, 1943.
The Family Business.
Returning to Hawai'i after finishing college in the U.S., William Herbert became manager