Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Beers, William Henry November 2, 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

WILLIAM HENRY BEERS, County Attorney. In charge of the legal interest of the 
Island of Hawaii for more than fifteen years, William H. Beers was elevated to 
that office after a decade spent in teaching school and as clerk and 
interpreter in the district courts of the Territory.
  Born in Honolulu, Nov. 2, 1877, he is the son of Henry A. and Caroline 
Kalanialii (Kamakauahoa) Beers. He was educated in the public schools, 
Kamehameha Schools, 1895; normal department, 1896; and University of Michigan, 
law department, LL.B., 1908. Meanwhile he had taught in the public schools of 
Honokaa, 1896-1897; at the Hilo Boarding School, 1898-1902, and served as 
clerk and interpreter for the district court of South Hilo, 1902-1906. He was 
official interpreter for the territorial house of representatives at the 1909 
session, a member of the board of prison inspectors, Fourth Judicial district, 
and second District Magistrate for South Hilo, 1906.
  Mr. Beers was elected county attorney for Hawaii in 1909 and has been re-
elected for each succeeding term. He has been active in Republican politics as 
chairman of that party’s county conventions; twice chairman of the Republican 
territorial convention; president of the Eighth Precinct Republican National 
convention in 1924 which nominated President Calvin Coolidge.
  He also has taken an interest in business and is treasurer of the Hilo Gas 
Co., Ltd., director of the Security Building & Loan Association, and the 
Hawaii Investment Co., Ltd. He promoted and was instrumental in obtaining a 
franchise for the gas corporation and has been instrumental in obtaining a 
franchise for the gas corporation and has been instrumental in the 
organization of several other corporations necessary for the progress of the 
city of Hilo and the county of Hawaii.
  He is a trustee of the Hilo Boarding School and senior warden of the Church 
of the Holy Apostles, Episcopal, Hilo. He is a trustee of the Ancient Order of 
Foresters, the Order of Owls, and Order of Kamehameha; past president of 
Council No. 5, Native Sons of Hawaii, and Hale o na Alii. He also is a member 
of the Hilo Yacht Club and a charter member of the Order of Hermitage at the 
University of Michigan.
  He married Maude Oliver Hansen Dec. 19, 1902, and they have three children, 
William Henry, Fred Douglas and Naoma Hansen Beers.


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(Notation in book – Died. March 14, 1946 in Hilo.)

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