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“I guess you could say we

were all born with the gene,”

said Richard “Dick” Sloggett,

Jr., about his family’s long

tradition of philanthropy

in Hawai‘i. The 85-year-

old is a fi fth generation

descendant of Abner and

Lucy Wilcox, missionary

teachers who settled on

Kaua‘i in 1846 after arriving

in Honolulu in 1837. Dick

recalls the summers he

spent at Mahamoku in

Hanalei with his great aunts

Elsie and Mabel Wilcox, and

Christmas holidays spent

at Grove Farm homestead,

where presents sat under

a Norfolk pine illuminated

with real candles!

Grove Farm, Mahamoku,

and Wai‘oli Mission House

are now preserved as

museums that can be

enjoyed by the local

community and visitors. It

was the hope of Elsie and

Mabel Wilcox, who led the

restoration efforts, that

neither the properties nor

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It’s All About YOUGiving back to the community is part of Hawai‘i’s history and part of the legacy of Kaua‘i’s Wilcox family

“ As part of a family whose story is intertwined with that of Kaua‘i, history is very personal.”

Richard “Dick” Sloggett

their histories would be lost

to future generations.

To this day, the infl uence of

the family’s generosity can

be felt in the institutions

they helped to shape.

George Norton Wilcox

transformed Grove Farm

into a thriving sugar

plantation and helped to

build Na-wiliwili Harbor.

Mabel Wilcox, a nurse

and commissioner of

public health, was a force

behind Wilcox Health and

the G.N.Wilcox Memorial

Hospital. The family’s legacy

is also linked to Elsie H.

Wilcox Elementary School,

Kaua‘i Community College,

and the YWCA of Kaua‘i.

Then there is “Camp

Sloggett,” which was built

as a family retreat in Ko-ke‘e

by Dick’s grandparents,

Henry Digby and Etta Wilcox

Sloggett, and later donated

to the YWCA. It’s a special

place that still serves as a

gathering spot for members

of the extended family at

Thanksgiving. “As part of

a family whose story is

intertwined with that of

Kaua‘i,” said Dick Slogett,

“history is very personal.”

The Wilcox family’s legacy of giving on Kaua‘i includes the Wilcox Health and Wilcox Memorial Hospital.