Honolulu County HI Archives Biographies.....Atherton, Frank Cooke July 1, 1877 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

Atherton, Frank Cooke: President. Manager, Castle & Cooke, Ltd.

     Born July l, 1877, Honolulu, son of Joseph Ballard and Juliette Montague
(Cooke) Atherton: married Eleanore Simpson, of Chatham, Ohio, 1901; children,
Marjory E. (Atherton) Halford, J. Ballard, and Alexander S. Atherton.

     Active in the business life of Hawaii for more than a quarter of a century,
Frank C. Atherton, president and manager of Castle & Cooke, Ltd., and officer
and director in many other island enterprises, also has taken a leading part in
the religious, civic, and community improvement endeavors of the Territory.

     He was educated in Punahou School, Honolulu, and at Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Conn. He left college on account of ill health in 1896, in his
sophomore year, and after a year of recuperation entered the employ of the Bank
of Hawaii, Ltd.. as a clerk, later becoming receiving teller, paying teller,
secretary and assistant cashier and a director, he resigned on account of poor
health in 1904. Two years later he became secretary and manager of the Sugar
Factors, Co., Ltd., and held that position until 1910, when on account of his
health he was again forced to retire from business. He traveled for a year and
in 1911 became secretary of the J. B. Atherton Estate, Ltd. In 1916 he was
elected vice-president of Castle & Cooke, Ltd., of which firm he became manager
in 1925 and was elected to the presidency in 1028.

     Through his business connections with Castle & Cooke. Ltd., and the .T. B.
Atherton Estate, Ltd., of which he is vice-presiden,. Mr. Atherton is an officer
or director of a large number of firms in the Territory. He is president and
director of the Home Insurance Co. of Hawaii, Ltd.: the Apokaa Sugar Co., Ltd.;
Wahiawa Water Co., Ltd.; Hilo Tribune-Herald, Ltd., and Waialae Ranch Co.. Ltd.;
vice-president and director of Ewa Plantation Co., Waialua Agricultural Co.,
Ltd., Kohala Sugar Co., American Factors, Ltd., Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd.,
Mutual Telephone Co., Hawaiian Trust Co.. Ltd., Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Ltd.;
Territorial Hotel Co., Ltd.; Hawaii Railway Co., Ltd.; secretary and director of
the Bank of Hawaii, Ltd., the International Trust Co., Ltd., and director of the
Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., Oahu Sugar Co. and Waiahole Water Co. He is a
trustee and past president (1925) of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association
and a member and past president (1923) of the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu.

     Mr. Atherton was one of the principal promoters and chairman of the
Organizing committee of the Institute of Pacific Relations and is treasurer of
the Pacific Council, or controlling body, of that organization. He has been a
delegate to the three general conferences of the Institute, the last of which
was held in Kyoto, Japan, from Oct. 28 to Nov. 9, 1929. He is also active in
religious, educational and philanthropic endeavors as well as in the work of the
Y. M. C. A, and Y. W. C. A. He is a trustee of Central Union Church, Oahu
College and Mid-Pacific Institute.

     He is an enthusiastic horticulturist, being especially interested in orchid
culture and in the cross breeding of hibiscus. Stamp collecting is also a
favorite diversion, his specialty being old Hawaiian stamps, He is a member of
the Oahu Country, Pacific and University clubs.

     Mr. Atherton is a direct descendant of one of the early missionary
families. His mother was a daughter of Amos Starr Cooke, pioneer missionary,
first of the Cooke family in the Islands and co-founder of the firm of Castle
Cooke. His father, the late J. B. Atherton, a native of Boston, Mass., was an
early member of Castle & Cooke and head of that firm for many years.



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