 He then supervised the building of a building now called "Old School Hall" from 1848 to 1851, largely with student labor.In 1854 they resigned from the school and moved to the island of Kauai where he became manager for the Līhuʻe Plantation owned by Henry A. Peirce and William Little Lee, replacing James Fowler Baldwin Marshall.Since the plantation had suffered through extremes of storms and a drought, his pay was supplemented by shares in ownership of the company.