Honolulu County HI Archives Obituaries.....Chamberlain, William Warren January 10, 1951
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WILLIAM W. CHAMBERLAIN, MEMBER OF MISSIONARY FAMILY, IS DEAD.

  William Warren Chamberlain, 77, of 1719 Dole St., member of a pioneer 
missionary family, died today at 6:10 a.m. at the Queen’s hospital after an 
illness of several months. Funeral services over the ashes will be held in the 
Kawaihao Missionary cemetery at 4:30 Thursday afternoon with the Rev. Henry P. 
Judd officiating. Mr. Chamberlain was born in Honolulu on February 13, 1873. 
He was the youngest son of Warren and Celia Wright Chamberlain, and the 
grandson of Levi Chamberlain, noted pioneer missionary, who came to Hawaii in 
1823 with the second company of missionaries sent out by the American Board.
SURVIVORS LISTED
  Mr. Chamberlain is survived by his widow, Clio Newton Chamberlain, two 
daughters, Miss Clio O. Chamberlain, Mrs. Jack H. Beadle, and four 
grandchildren, William W. Chamberlain II of Washington, D.C., Julie C., Carol 
A., and Nancy J. Beadle of Honolulu. He is also survived by his sister, Mrs. 
Helen C. Ives of River Forest, Ill. He was educated at Oahu college (now 
Punahou School), and at Bryant and Stratton Business College in Chicago. Upon 
his return to Honolulu he engaged in various commercial enterprises. In 1900, 
he joined the late Attorney E. O. Smith, handling for him a rapidly expanding 
trust business. In 1911 this department was incorporated as the Guardian Trust 
Co., Ltd., and Mr. Chamberlain was chosen treasurer. When this company merged 
with the Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., in 1920, Mr. Chamberlain became a director, 
member of the executive committee and vice president of the latter 
corporation, which position he resigned on January 31, 1950.
COLLEGE TRUSTEE
  Mr. Chamberlain held many positions of trust and importance. He was made a 
trustee of Oahu college in 1917, and in 1923 was elected treasurer serving to 
June 1933. He continued as a trustee of the Oahu college until June 30, 1937. 
for many years, Mr. Chamberlain was treasurer of the Hawaiian Mission 
Children’s Society. He also served on the chamber of commerce committee on 
charities and social welfare, and on the general advisory board of the 
Salvation Army. He was a member of the house of representatives at the 1925 
session of the legislature. Following the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, 
Mr. Chamberlain served from 1895 to 1897 in Company B of the Honolulu Rifles, 
and as a lieutenant of the mounted reserve. At the time of his death, Mr. 
Chamberlain was a director of the Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., Oahu Railway and 
Land Co., Bank of Hawaii, Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., and McBryde Sugar Co., 
Ltd.


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