Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Atherton, Frank Cooke July 1, 1877 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

FRANK COOKE ATHERTON, Corporation Official. Frank C. Atherton, vice-president 
and manager of Castle & Cooke, Ltd., is closely identified with the sugar 
industry and other leading commercial and industrial enterprises of Hawaii.
  A native son of Hawaii, born in Honolulu July 1, 1877, Mr. Atherton’s 
parents were the late Joseph Ballard Atherton, for many years head of Castle & 
Cooke, Ltd., one of the industrial builders of Hawaii, and Juliette Montague 
(Cooke) Atherton, daughter of Amos Starr Cooke, early missionary, founder of 
the Cooke family in Hawaii and one of the two original partners in Castle & 
Cooke, Ltd.
  Mr. Atherton attended the Punahou School, being graduated from the Academy 
in 1894, whence he went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. His 
college course was broken into by a serious illness in his sophomore year. 
Returning to Honolulu, he entered the Bank of Hawaii, Ltd., in 1897 and served 
successively as clerk, receiving teller, paying teller, assistant cashier and 
secretary.
  Ill health forced him to retire from the bank in 1904 and spend a year 
recuperating. From 1906 to 1909 he was secretary and manager of the Sugar 
Factors Co., Ltd. For several years he devoted himself to the affairs of the 
J. B. Atherton Estate, Ltd., and then joined Castle & Cooke, Ltd., becoming a 
vice-president in 1916.
  Educational, church and philanthropic movements have always engaged Mr. 
Atherton’s attention and support. He is a trustee of Oahu College, the Mid-
Pacific Institute and Central Union Church, is chairman of the territorial 
committee and a member of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A., the 
latter a New York organization.
  Through the affiliations of Castle & Cooke, Ltd., and the J. B. Atherton 
Estate, Ltd., Mr. Atherton is an official and director of a number of large 
corporations. He is vice-president of the American Factors, Ltd., Ewa 
Plantation Co., Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd., Kohala Sugar Co., Waialua 
Agricultural Co., Ltd., president of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., 
treasurer of the J. B. Atherton Estate, Ltd., and a director of the Hawaiian 
Pineapple Co., Ltd., Apokaa Sugar Co., Bank of Hawaii, Ltd., Hawaiian Trust 
Co., Ltd., International Trust Co., Maui Agricultural Co., Oahu Sugar Co., and 
Waiahole Water Co.
  In 1923 Mr. Atherton was president of the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu, 
and he holds membership in Oahu County, Pacific, Commercial and University 
Clubs. He is an enthusiastic gardener, specializing upon orchid and hibiscus 
culture.
  He married Eleanore Alice Simpson of New York in 1901 and their children are 
Marjory E. Atherton, now a student at Vassar; J. Ballard and Alexander S. 
Atherton.


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