Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Benner, Edwin  April 4, 1863 - 
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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

EDWIN BENNER, Insurance Manager. Edwin Benner, for more than a quarter of a 
century in the insurance business in Honolulu and a recognized expert in that 
line, was apprenticed to a pattern maker when a youth and for four years 
remained with the same concern in San Francisco until he had mastered the 
trade, and from 1884 to 1892 he followed it in San Francisco, Philadelphia and 
Honolulu.
  Joining Castle & Cooke in 1892 as a clerk he was with that firm until 1899, 
for five years as manager of its household department, when he was made 
manager of the insurance and sales department of the Henry Waterhouse Co., 
later reorganized as the Henry Waterhouse Trust Co., Ltd., and at the present 
time Mr. Benner is manager of its insurance department. A colorful event in 
the life of Mr. Benner occurred during the overthrow of the Monarchy in 
Hawaii. In 1893, during the Revolution, Mr. Benner was with the revolutionary 
group, and upon the very day of Queen Liliuokalani’s fall from power he drove 
an ammunition wagon. Later he served with the Citizens’ Guard and Company B, 
Hawaiian National Guard.
  Mr. Benner is a member of the Ad Club, Commercial Club, Manoa Improvement 
Club and is a Mason. He was born in San Francisco, April 4, 1863, the son of 
Frederic M. and Catharine (Eckfeldt) Benner. His education was received in the 
public schools of Oakland. In 1898 Mr. Benner married Maud L. Barnum in 
Honolulu. They have four children, Harlan Frederic, Edwin, Emma Catharine and 
Howard Barnum Benner.


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