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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
P H I L A N T H R O P Y
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.
