Honolulu County HI Archives Biographies.....Alexander, Arthur Chambers August 22, 1863 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

Alexander, Arthur Chambers: Manager, Land Department, American Factors, Ltd.

     Born Aug. 22, 1863, Honolulu, son of William DeWitt Alexander and Abigail
Charlotte (Baldwin) Alexander; married Mary Elizabeth Hillebrand, Oswego, N. Y.,
Aug. 18, 1891: children, William P., Yale Ph.B. 1915, University of Hawaii, M.A.
1922, now in sugar production work in Cuba; Helen C.; Arthur D., Yale A.B. 1918,
member firm of Robinson, Nowell & Co., accountants, San Francisco; Herman H.,
assistant cashier, Baldwin Bank, Maui, and Mary D. Alexander: member, University
Club, Hawaiian Engineering Association; trustee Oahu College, secretary since
1921; trustee and secretary, library of Hawaii; vice-president Hawaiian Board,
Deacon Central Union Church.

     Educated at Punahou School, 1872-82, and Yale University, Ph.B. 1888, Ph.D.
1895, Mr. Alexander was in the employ of the Hawaiian Government Survey and
Bishop Estate. 1882-85. He was laboratory assistant at Yale, 1888-95, and an
instructor at the University of California, 1895-1901. Maintaining a private
practice in civil engineering in Honolulu for many years, he took his present
position as manager of the land department of American Factors, Ltd., in 1919.

     Mr. Alexander is a member of old and distinguished families of Hawaii,
through both his father and his mother. His father, Professor W. D. Alexander,
was the founder of the Hawaiian Government Survey in 1872 and its head up to the
time of annexation, much of his work remaining as a primary basis for modern
surveys in the Islands. He was also an eminent author and historian of Hawaii.


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