Editing Alexander Cartwright (section)

== Hawaii ==
[[File:OahuCemetery-AlexanderJoyCartwrightJr-tombstone.JPG|thumb|alt=stone monument|Cartwright's tombstone in [[Oahu Cemetery]], Honolulu]]

In 1849, Cartwright headed to [[California]] for the [[California Gold Rush|gold rush]], and then continued on to work and live in the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]]. His family came to join him in 1851: wife Eliza Van Wie, son DeWitt (1843–1870), daughter Mary (1845–1869), and daughter Catherine (Kate) Lee (1849–1851). Their sons Bruce Cartwright (1853–1919) and Alexander Joy Cartwright III (1855–1921) were born in Hawaii. Some secondary sources claim Cartwright set up a baseball field on the island of Oahu at Makiki Field in 1852, but Nucciarone states that before 1866, the modern game of baseball was not known or even played in Honolulu.<ref name=carthaw>{{cite book|last1=Nucciarone|first1=Monica|title=Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend|page=207|access-date=August 7, 2016|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location=Lincoln, Nebraska|year=2009|isbn=978-0-8032-3353-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1HGAKf203p8C&q=%22the+modern+game+of+baseball+was+not+well+known%22&pg=PA207}}</ref> Also, she states that during Cartwright's lifetime he was not declared or documented as an originator of baseball in Hawaii.<ref name=carthaw />
[[File:Alexander Cartwright (PP-69-3-004).jpg|thumb|upright|left|Cartwright in later life as fire chief]]

Cartwright served as fire chief of [[Honolulu]] from 1850 through June 30, 1863.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH0113/98418827.dir/Cartwright,%20A%20J.jpg |title=Cartwright, A.J. office record |work=state archives digital collections |publisher=state of Hawaii |access-date=January 6, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811184733/http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH0113/98418827.dir/Cartwright%2C%20A%20J.jpg |archive-date=August 11, 2011 }}</ref> He was an advisor to [[Kalākaua|King David Kalākaua]] and [[Queen Emma of Hawaii|Queen Emma]]. Cartwright died on July 12, 1892, six months before the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893. One of the leaders of the overthrow movement was [[Lorrin A. Thurston]], who played baseball with classmate Alexander Cartwright III at [[Punahou School]]. Cartwright was buried in [[Oahu Cemetery]].<ref name=Nucciarone2009 />