Honolulu, with A. H. Rice; now
president Jas. F. Morgan Co., Ltd.
Is treasurer and director San Car-
los Milling Co., Ltd.; secretary-
treasurer and director Hawaiian
Sumatra Plantation, Ltd.; director
Selama-Dindings Plantations, Ltd.;



president Honolulu Stock and Bond
Exchange, 1916, and part 1917;
was a member of the Citizens'
Guard, 1897; Republican. Mem-
ber Chamber of Commerce of Ho-
nolulu, Pacific Club, Country Club
(charter member). Hawaiian His-
torical Society, Honolulu Polo and
Racing Assn., Kawainui Club.

FORBES, DAVID McH., sugar
mill manager, Waiakea, Hilo, Ha-
waii; born in Scotland, July 21,
1863: son of Alexander and Mary
(McHattie) Forbes; educated in
common schools and night school,
Scotland; married Cassie Lougher
at Waiakea, Hilo, August 7, 1895;
five children, Blodwen F., Merlyn
M., Allister M., Dyfrig M.. Betty
F. Started work in private estate
nurseries of Moray, Scotland, 1879;
forests of same estate, 1882; nur-
series of Dixon & Co., Edinburgh
1883; foreman forester, estate of
Fletchers Saltonhall, 1885; went
to Kukuihaele. Hawaii, 1887, for
H. W. Purvis; when plantation was
transferred to Pacific Sugar Mill
Co., went with that concern as
timekeeper; became head luna and
succeeded Von Mergersen as mana-
gr, 1894; returned to Scotland, 1910,
returning to Hawaii, at Waiakea in
1912. Was member of Hamakua
Roadboard; served as 1st Lieut, in
army of Provisional Government.
Is 32 Mason, B. P. O. E.; mem-
ber of Royal Arboricultural So-
ciety of Scotland.

FORBES, THOMAS, Jr., garage
manager. Hilo, Hawaii; born at
Kalaupapa, Molokai, Nov. 7, 1888;
son of Thomas and Amelia (Ka-
mokoumi) Forbes; education, St.
Mary's school, Hilo; commercial
course, San Francisco; married
Edna Akau, in Hilo, Dec. 21, 1911;
after leading school followed me-
chanical work for a.bout 10 yrs.,
working for Waiakea Mill Co.,
Olaa Sug. Co., Hilo R. R. Co., Ho-
nolulu Iron Works and Volcano
Garage; began business for self
and now business mgr. Hawaii
Garage. Former member Co. D,
N. G. H. Mason.

FORBES, WILLIAM JOSEPH,

bookkeeper and notary public, Ho-
nolulu; born Oct. 8, 1866, in Hono-
lulu; son of Rev. Anderson O. and
Maria J. (Chamberlain) Forbes;
married Kate D. Watson at Paia,
Maui, T. H., June 27, 1901; five
children: Theodore Watson, Fred-
erick Blatchford, Marion Chamber-
lain, Frances Alicia, Katharine Wil-
helmina. Educated Oahu College,
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career in law office of William O.
Smith, Honolulu, 1889-1910; since
1910 with J. B. Atherton Estate,
Ltd.; for 12 years (1889-1901) as-
sistant manager Lunalilo Home,
Honolulu. Charter member Society
Sons of American Revolution, treas-
urer for ten years; member Cham-
ber of Commerce of Honolulu.

FORD, ALEXANDER HUME,
Secretary-Director Pan- Pacific

Union; born April 3, 1868, in Flor-
ence, S. C.; son of Frederick Win-
throp and Mary Mazy (Hume)
Ford; descendant on mothers side
from Christopher Gadsen, first gov-
ernor of South Carolina, delegated
as signer of Declaration of Inde-
pendence; descendant of Frederick
Ford of London, who settled in
Carolina about 1668 with Royal
Charter from King James II to a
large tract of land, arriving in
Charleston with shipload of white
servants. Father was large rice
planter and owner of a thousand
slaves at time of Civil "War. Edu-
cated Charleston (S. C.) High
School and Porter Academy. Began
career with Charleston News and
Courier, 1885; associated with Pa-
trick and John C. Calhoun, Wall
Street, N. Y., 1886; wrote and pro-
duced plays in New York, 1893 and
1900-02; with New York dailies,
1891-93; Chicago Daily News 1894-
1895; editor of several monthly
magazines, New York and Chicago;
made tours of world beginning in
1899, for leading American and
English magazines; located in Ho-
nolulu in 1907: publisher of Mid-
Pacific Magazine and Secretary-
Director of Pan-Pacific Union. He
has made a scientific study of races
bordering on Pacific, through
branches of Pan-Pacific Union.
Honorary member of Outrigger
Canoe Club and Hawaiian Trail and
Mountain Club; recreations, surf
riding and mountain climbing.

FOR NESS, FRED, electrical engr.
Hawaii; born in Allegany, N. Y.,
Jan. 1, 1883; son of Michael and
Josephine (Giboo) Forness; educa-
tion, high school, Allegany. N. Y.,
1902; three years at St. Bona ven-
ture College, N. Y. ; married Char-
lotte Alexander at Hilo, Hawaii,
Oct. 24, 1918; one child, Andrei.
Employed, construction work, Cu-
ban Telegraph Co., 1904-07; elec-
trical engr., C. R. I. & P. R. R..
1909-11; Mutual Wireless Co., Ho-
nolulu, 1915-1917; U. S. Navy, 1917-
19; since May 1, 1919, with Hawi
Mill & Plantation Co., as supt. one
of largest electrical systems in
Territory.



FORREST, LESLIE, banker, Hilo,
Hawaii; born in Kirriemuir, Scot-
land, Aug. 10, 1892; son of William
and Jessie (McPherson) Forrest;
education, Scotland public schools;
Webster's seminary, Kirriemuir;
married Aileen Lilinoe Gibb, at
Naalehu, Hawaii, Dec. 14, 1918;
one child, Eleanor; after completion
of schooling did clerical work in
native country, coming to Hawaii
1911 and securing employment in
office of Maui Agr. Co., Paia; with
T. H. Davies & Co., 1914-16; Hutch-
inson Sug. Co., 1916-19; account-
ant, First Trust Co., Hilo, 1920;
cashier People's Bank, Hilo, since
Jan. 1921. Member of Hilo Yacht
and Tennis clubs.

FORREST, ROBERT THOMAS,

real estate and insurance broker.
Hilo, Hawaii; born at Kirriemuir,
Scotland, Oct. 11, 1866: son of
Robert and Mary (Fraser) Forrest;
educated at Webster's Seminary
(Kirriemuir), Dundee High school
and Madras College, (St. Andrews,
Scotland), graduated, 1884; mar-
ried Alexandra Stewart at Grove
Ranch, Maui, T. H., Dec. 31, 1891;
children, Margaret S. (Mrs. Lind-
say), Mary L. and Catherine L.
Studied law in private law office,
Scotland, 1884-1889; came to Ha-
waii April, 1890, and was employed
on plantations until June, 1911; tax
assessor of the Island of Hawaii.
1911-14; entered in the real es-
tate and brokerage business, Hilo.
Hawaii. 1914. Member of Kilauea
Lodge. No. 330, F. & A. M.

FOSS, JOHN HARRISON, civil
engineer, Paia, Maui; born in Cal-
ifornia, January 7, 1879; son of
James C. and Lavinia D. Foss;
graduated from Stanford Univer-
sity, A. B., 1903; married Irine V.
Crook in San Francisco, August
4, 1909; three children: Harrison,
William C. and Frank D. Was
engineer for Maui Agricultural Co.,
Paia, Maui, 1903-07; member of
faculty of Stanford University,
1907-18; engineer for Maui Agri-
culture Co., Hawaiian Commercial
& Sugar Co., Kahului Railroad Co.,
and East Maui Irrigation Co. since
1918. Member of Sigma Psi (hono-
rary scientific fraternity), Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers; 32
Mason and Shriner.

FOSTER, JOHN PRESTON,

chemist and sugar factory supt.,
Paia, Maui; born at Lime Springs,
Iowa, July 7, 1878; son of John E.
and Helen J. (Daniels) Foster;
educated, Lake Charles Congrega-
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B. L. degree, and Audubon Sugar
School of University of Louisiana;
married Cora D. Boyum, Jan. 1,
1901 at Jennings, La.; one child:
Dorothy E. Chemist at various
sugar factories in Louisiana, Texas
and Cuba; came to Hawaii as
chemist for Maui Agricultural Co.
remaining in their employ since
January 1906; was chemist for
petroleum oil refinery, Custom-
house chemist for U. S. govern-
ment, and consulting chemist for
bagasse paper factory in Louisi-
ana; has devoted much time while
in Hawaii to the development of
resources of the Territory and has
introduced the manufacture of lime
from beach sand, the manufacture
of Portland cement and the manu-
facture of motor fuel from molas-
ses, all commercially successful;
has introduced with some success
labor saving devices for sugar fac-
tories. Was acting president Ha-
waiian Chemists Assn, 1919, pres.,
1920; is a 32 Mason and Shriner,
an Elk and member of Hawaiian
Sugar Planter's Assn., Hawaiian
Engineers' Assn., Chamber of Com-
merce of Maui, University Club,
Honolulu, Chemists Club, N. Y.,
and American Chemists Assn.

FOSTER, WILLIAM ROBSON,

harbor master, Honolulu ; born
March 5, 1868, in Liverpool, Eng-
land; son of Thomas Yates and
Ellen (Appleton) Foster; married
Christine Maud Stevenson in Ho-
nolulu, Dec. 24, 1899, one child,
Herbert Robson. Educated Mount
Pleasant Institute, Liverpool, Eng-
land. Followed the sea from 1879-
1898 in all capacities, from boy to
master. Left R. M. S. Monowai in
Honolulu, 1898; appointed harbor
master, October 1, 1911. Member
Harmony Lodge No. 3, I. O. O. P.,
Healani Boat Club; naturalized
American citizen in San Francisco,
1892. Honolulu Lodge 409, A. F.
& A. M.

FRANCIS, WILLIAM HENRY,

store mgr.. Koloa Kauai; born in
Norwich, Conn.. May 26, 1880; son
of E. C. and Mary (Silver) Francis;
education, grammar school, high
school and Bristol County Academy,
Taunton, Mass.; married Bertha
Jane Justice, at Vernal, Utah, Aug.
10, 1910. Entered U. S. Army as pri-
vate, Nov. 30, 1900, and successively
held rank of cpl., sgt., 1st sgt., 2d
and 1st lieut., and capt. of cavalry,
being honorably discharged Oct. 30,
1920; saw service in Philippine in-
surrection and Mexican expedition.
Entered employ of Koloa Sug Co. as
Koloa store mgr., Dec. 1, 1920. Mem-



ber Myton Lodge No. 51, I. O. O F,
Honolulu Consistory No. 1, A. A.
Scottish Rite, F. M., 32 deg., and
American Legion.

FRANKLIN, CORNELL SIDNEY,

judge, Honolulu; born at Columbus,
Lowndes Co., Miss., April 1, 1892;
son of Cornell Samuel and Mary
Wyckoff (Taylor) Franklin; great-
grandson of Governor Taylor of
South Carolina and great-great-
grandson of Col. Thomas Taylor
who served with distinction under
Sumter; married Estelle Oldham
of Oxford, Miss., April, 1918; one
daughter, Victoria de Graffenreid.
Educated Franklin Academy, Co-
lumbus, Miss., 1909, University of
Mississippi, B.A., 1913, and LL.B.
1914. Began practise of law in
Honolulu, Oct. 1914; appointed
deputy attorney general, Territory
of Hawaii, 1917; served with the
First Hawaiian Infantry as First
Lieutenant during the World War;
appointed First Judge First Judi-
cial Circuit, Territory of Hawaii,
April, 1919. Is a Democrat and a
member of the Phi Delta Theta
Fraternity.

FRASER, DEXTER, plantation
mgr., Mahukona, Hawaii; born in
Fall River Mills, Shasta Co., Calif.,
Dec. 17, 1890; son of Mrs. N. L. D.
Fraser, of Honolulu; education,
Punahou preparatory school, 1905 ;
Oahu College, 1909; College of Ha-
waii, one year, 1910. With U. S.
Geol. Survey, 1911-13; employed by
Hawi Mill Co., Hawaii, 1914-15;
field supt. Thomas Pineapple Co.,
Oahu, 1916; with Libby, McNeill &
Libby, Oahu, 1917-18; appointed
mgr. Kohala Pineapple Co., Ltd.,
1920; served during World War
with Natl. Guard of Hawaii, July
17, 1907-Sept. 13, 1918 and with
24th Co. C, M. G. O. T. S., Han-
cock, Ga., to Nov. 30, 1918. Mem-
ber Hawaiian Lodge No. 21, F. &
A. M. ; Honolulu Chapter No. 1,
Honolulu Commandery No. 1, Aloha
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.

FRASER, FRANCIS ROBERT H.,

banker, Honokaa, Hawaii, T. H. ;
born in Inverness, Scotland, March
13, 1888; son of Alexander and
Mary (Mackenzie) Fraser; gram-
mar and high school education in
native country; married Jean Eve-
lyn Pritchard, in Honokaa, Dec. 6,
1919. Began business career in ac-
counts dept. of Highland Ry. Co.,
Inverness, Scotland, 1902-1909; was
with Hakalau Plantation Co.. Ha-
waii, 1909-11; with First Bank of
Hilo, Ltd., Honokaa Branch, since
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Served in National Guard of Ha-
waii and U. S. Army, June 1, 1918
to July 16, 1919; commissioned 2nd
Lieut. 'of Infy., U. S. A., Sept. 13,
1918; had previously been private
in Queen's Own Volunteer Battn.,
Cameron Highlanders, Inverness,
Scotland. Member Kilauea Lodge
No. 330, F. & A. M.; 32d deg. A.
& A. Scottish Rite; Aloha Temple

A. A. O. N. M. S. of Honolulu; Hilo
Lodge No. 759, B. P. O. E.

FRAZIER, CHARLES RUSSELL,

advertising counselor, Honolulu:
born March 24, 1879, at Blue Lake,
Humboldt Co., Cal. ; son of Albert
Anderson and Elizabeth (Clark)
Frazier; married Fannie Letitia Os-
born in Honolulu, Sept. 30, 1903;
four children: Elizabeth, Charles
Russell, Jr., Thomas Osborn, Rich-
ard Maurice. Educated grammar
schools and Aydelotte's Business
College, Oakland, Cal. Began busi-
ness career with Bergstrom Music
Co., Ltd., Honolulu, 1898-1900; es-
tablished advertising agency in Ho-
nolulu, 1900; pioneer in general ad-
vertising in the Territory of Ha-
waii; manager Charles R. Frazier
Co., general advertising, Honolulu.
Member Aloha Temple A. A. O. N.
M. S. ; Honolulu Lodge No. 616, B.
P. O. E.; Commercial, Oahu Coun-
try, Rotary and Honolulu Ad Clubs,
being one of the organizers and
past president of latter organiza-
tion.

FREAR, WALTER FRANCIS, ex-
governor of Hawaii, lawyer, Hono-
lulu; born in Grass Valley, Cal.,
Oct. 29, 1863; son of Walter and
Fannie E. (Foster) Frear; descend-
ant, on father's side, of Hughes
Frere, a French Huguenot who emi-
grated from Flanders in 1676 to
New York and was one of twelve
founders of New Paltz in that
state; descendant, on mother's side,
of George Soule, who came over in
the Mayflower. Educated Oahu
College (Honolulu) 1881, A. B. Yale,
1885, LL. B. Yale Law School, 1890
(awarded Jewell prize for best ex-
amination at graduation), honorary
LL. D. Yale, 1910; married Aug. i,
1893, Mary Emma Dillingham (A.

B. Wellesley College, author and
composer of "The Cocoa Palm and
Other Songs," "My Islands," etc..
daughter of Benjamin F. Dilling-
ham, pioneer railroad builder in
Hawaii); two daughters: Virginia
and Margaret. Instructor Greek,
Mathematics and Politcal Economy,
Oahu College, Honolulu, 1886-88;
second judge, First Circuit, Kingdom
of Hawaii, January 1, 1893; 2nd as-
sociate justice Supreme Court, Pro-
visional Government, Hawaii,



March 7, 1893; 1st associate justice
Supreme Court, Republic of Ha-
waii, Jan. 6, 1896: member Ha-
waiian commission to recommend to
Congress legislation concerning Ha-
waii, Aug., 1898; chief justice Su-
preme Court, Territory of Hawaii,
June 14, 1900-Aug. 15, 1907; chair-
man Code Commission, 1903-5; gov-
ernor Territory of Hawaii, 1907-13.
Chairman of Hawaiian delegation
to National Republican Convention,
1912. Is president of trustees, Men's
League and deacon of Central
Union Church; second vice-presi-
dent, Hawaiian Evangelical Asso-
ciation; director Associated Chari-
ties and Palama Settlement; mem-
ber Territorial Committee, Y. M. C.
A- and chairman Citizenship Edu-
cation Committee; president Trail
and Mountain Club, Pan-Pacific
Union, Hawaiian Bar Association;
Hawaiian Historical Society, Hono-
lulu Social Science Association and
Yale Alumni Association of Ha-
waii; director International Insti-
tute for Girls in Spain; member
board of trustees, Oahu College;
chairman joint committee of civic
organizations on new charter for
Honolulu; director. Chamber of
Commerce and chairman legal com-
mittee; director The Bank of
Bishop & Co., Ltd., and First Na-
tional Bank of Hawaii; pres. and
director Mutual Telephone Co.;
vice-pres. and director San Carlos
Milling Co., Ltd.; first vice-pres.
and director Olaa Sugar Co. and
McBryde Sugar Co.; second vice-
pres. and director Kauai Railway
Co- and Kauai Fruit and Land Co.;
vice-pres. and director The B. F.
Dillingham Co., Ltd.; treas., direc-
tor and trustee for bondholders
Oahu Railway and Land Co. ; res.
vice-pres. Aetna Casualty and Lia-
bility Co. Honorary member of
Royal Geographical Society of Aus-
tralasia, member of Daughters and
Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, Uni-
versity, Pacific, Commercial and
Country clubs, and director for Ha-
waiian Bar Assn. Author of "The
Evolution of the Hawaiian Judi-
ciary." "The Development of Ha-
waiian Statute Law," etc.

FREES, ARTHUR LEE, lubri-
cation engineer, Honolulu; born at
Ferry, Mich., January 15, 1882;
education, grammar school, me-
chanics course, I. C. S., special
course in mechanics at the Uni-
versity of Washington; married
Grace I. Lane in Seattle, Wash.,
April 18, 1901; two children: Ar-
thur L., Jr., and Dorothy. Began
career with Seattle Electric Com-
pany in 1902 to learn trade as
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chief engineer to join Standard Oil
Co. of Calif., as lubrication ex-
pert; entered U. S. Army, air ser-
vice, April 1918, as lubrication en-
gineer, rank of captain; during war
was lubrication engineer at Brooks
field, Texas, later appointed con-
sulting lubrication engineer for the
manufacturers of Liberty motors,
also inspecting lubrication engineer
for the twelve Northern flying
fields, being honorably discharged
Jan. 8, 1919; rejoined Standard
Oil Co., of Calif., later asst. district
sales manager, Honolulu. Member
National Society of Stationary En-
gineers, American Society of Lu-
brication Engineers, The American
Geographical Society of New York,
United Order of Commercial Trav-
elers, Oahu Country Club, Com-
mercial Club, Ad Club, Hawaiian
Engineers' Assn., Chamber of Com-
merce, B. P. O. Elks, Auto Club
and is 32 Mason.

FRENCH, GEORGE K., lawyer,
Honolulu; born Washington, D. C.,
June 18, 1867; son of Edmund F.
and Margaret B. French; educated
common schools, Washington, D.
C., University of Georgetown, 1883-
1885; instructor in Latin, Greek and
French, and director physical cul-
ture, Shortlidge's prep, school, Me-
dia, Pa., 1885-6; University of
Georgetown, law dept. LL.B-, 1889;
married Stella Mycldleton- Short of
Putney-on-Thames, London, Eng.,
June 4, 1903. Admitted to Sup.
Court, Dist. of Col., May 1889; to
U. S. Sup. Court May, 1892; official
French translator International Ma-
rine Conference under auspices of
Dept. of State, Washington, D. C.,
1889; junior member law firm of
which Benjamin F . Butler was
head, 1891-93; prosecuting attorney
Dist. of Col. during same period;
geographical work in Ashanti, Da-
homey, Liberia, Sierra Leone and
French Senegal, 1895-7; accom-
panied Major Armitage's column to
Sokolo, in the Great Bend region of
Niger; served in British army un-
der Sir Francis Scott as chief of
scouts attached to native levies or-
ganized and commanded by Major
Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, in the
fifth Ashanti campaign; returned
to America, lectured and published
results of travel and research, 1897;
practised in San Francisco with D.
M. Delmas, 1897-9, and delivered
course of eighteen lectures on Afri-
can ethnology at Cal. Academy of
Science; accompanied North Alas-
ka expeditionary force, under Col.
P. H. Ray, 8th U. S. Infantry, as
chief of scouts, leaving San Fran-
cisco June, 1899, wintering at Fort
Egbert, America's "farthest north"
11-



military station; explored and
mapped that section of Alaska and
aided in maintaining law and order
on Yukon before courts were estab-
lished. Left Alaska, 1903, and lo-
cated at Nogales, Ariz., on Mexican
border, and resumed practise of law
and founded daily newspaper, giv-
ing that part of Arizona its first
A. P. news service; member of Ari-
zona delegation to Washington, D.
C., 1905-06, successfully opposing
administration's measure for joint-
statehood with New Mexico; owned
and operated Cochran copper mine,
Ray Dist., Arizona, 1909-14; located
in Honolulu May, 1915, with
Thompson and Cathcart, and prac-
tised alone since Dec., 1916. Elec-
ted, 1899, Fellow of Royal Geogra-
phical Society.

FRICKE, ROBERT, sugar plan-
tation man, Waipahu, Oahu; born
Vienenburg, Germany, Dec., 1878;
son of Herman Fricke; education,
high school Goslar, Germany. Came
to Hawaii July 30, 1896; began as
luna, Waianafi Plantation, Oahu
1896-97; luna and asst. head luna
Oahu Sugar Co., 1897-1906; time-
keeper and section luna, McBryde
Sugar Co., Kauai, 1906-08; head
luna for Pacific Sugar Mill, Kuku-
ihaele, Hawaii, 1909-13; similar
position, Kilauea Plantation, Kauai,
1914-16; since 1917 section over-
seer, at present head luna, Oahu
Sugar Co. Is member Hawaiian
Lodge No. 21, A. F. & A. M. ; Scot-
tish Rite Mason and member Aloha
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.

FRIES, AUGUST, chemist, Ho-
nokaa. Hawaii; born in Germany,
Dec. 21, 1866. Graduated from col-
lege, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1886;
following school worked three years
in laboratories of Fresenius, Wies-
baden, and one season in sugar
beet factory; arrived in Hawaii,
1889, and engaged by H. P. Bald-
win as chemist at Hamakuapoko,
Maui; in 1892 transferred to Maka-
weli, Kauai, in charge of boiling
department, in newly erected diffu-
sion plant of Hawaiian Sug. Co.; in
charge of two new factories, For-
mosa, 1909-11; returned to Hawaii
as chemist in charge boiling dept.
Pioneer Mill Co., Lahaina, Maui,
1911; head chemist at Makaweli,
Kauai, 1918, superintendent in 1919;
chemist, Honokaa Sug. Co., Hawaii,
May 1, 1921. Naturalized American
citizen, 1902.

FROISETH, BERNARD, fire in-
surance, Honolulu; born in Salt
Lake City, Utah, Dec. 13, 1879; son
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son) Froiseth; education, Salt Lake
City grammar and high schools;
married Anita Fuller Robertson,
at Oakland, Calif., Feb. 1, 1910.
Entered Dist. F office of Board of
Fire Underwriters of the Pacific,
Salt Lake City, 1898, holding posi-
tions of clerk, examiner and sur-
veyor; resigned in 1907 to enter
employ of California Ins. Co., as
special agt. in charge of business
Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and
Utah, with headquarters at Denver
and Salt Lake City; became as-
sociated with Ins. Co. of N. Amer-
ica, Feb. 1, 1910, as special agt.
and adjuster in charge business
Montana, Idaho and Utah, with
headquarters at Helena; transfer-
red to Portland, Ore., 1911, in
charge western Washington, West-
ern British Columbia, and Oregon;
resigned, Jan. 1, 1914, to locate in
San Francisco as an independent
adjuster of fire losses; came to
Honolulu, July 1918, to accept posi-
tion as secy, of Board of Fire
Underwriters, Terr. Hawaii, and
to organized Hawaii Rating Bureau;
is sec. and treas. both these organi-
zations. Appointed chairman and
member, Tax Appeal Court, 1st
Divis., Terr. Hawaii, 1921; honor-
ary member Fire Underwriters
Assn. of Pacific; member Rotary
Club, Chamber of Commerce, Com-
mercial Club, Oahu Country Club.

PURER, WILLIAM CHARLES,

architectural and structural engi-
neer, Honolulu: born Alma, Wis.,
Feb. 18, 1879; son of Rev. Edmund
F. E. and Caroline (Wedemeyer)
Furer; married Mary Ellen Braly,
Honolulu, Sept. 8. 1909; two chil-
dren: Albert Braly and Frederick
Harold. Univ. Wis. 1901-02; Mass.
Inst. Technology, B. S., 1906. With
Amer. Bridge Co., N. Y. City, 1906;
draftsman, U. S. Naval Station,
Key West, Fla.. and Navy Yard,
N. Y. City, 1907;, engineer asst.
and draftsman, Dept. Yards and
Docks, Pearl Harbor, Oahu. 1908-
11; made first borings for Pearl
Harbor dry dock, 1908; asst. eng.
County of Hawaii, 1911-13; office
eng. Waiahole Water Co., 1913;
same, Lord-Young Engineering Co.,
1913-14; chief draftsman and eng.,
Dept. Pub. Works, Terr. Hawaii,
1915-17; organized firm of Harper,
Furer & Marr, architects and
structural engineers, Honolulu,
1917; prof, engineering, College Ha-
waii, 1918-20; private practise since
Sept. 1920. Member Hawn. Engi-
neering Assn., Ad Club, Outrigger
Canoe Club.



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GALT, JOHN RANDOLPH, fi-
nancier, Honolulu; born June 5
1867, at Newburg, N. \., son o
John and Evelyn (Roberts) Gat,
married Agnes Carter in Honolulu
Mav 17, 1892; two children, John
and Carter. Educated in public
schools and Siglar's Preparatory
School (Newburg, N. Y.), Yale Uni-
versity (Academic) graduated 188S
Began business career with Gait
Bros. & Co., Seattle, Wash., 1890,