Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Bishop, Eben Faxon October 27, 1863 - 
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Source: The Story of the Builders of Hawaii. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

EBEN FAXON BISHOP, Executive and Capitalist. Coming to Hawaii in 1883 as a 
youth of 19, at the suggestion of his relative, the late Charles R. Bishop, 
Hawaii’s first banker and notable philanthropist, E. Faxon Bishop immediately 
entered the employ of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., as a junior clerk and has been 
continuously identified with that firm for more than four decades, since 1909 
as president.
  Although C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., is the oldest American commercial 
institution west of the Rocky Mountains, having been established in 1826 it 
was still comparatively small when Mr. Bishop first joined it. During the more 
than forty years that have since elapsed, a period marked by the enormous 
development of the Hawaiian sugar industry, the firm has become one of the 
largest in the Pacific. In 1891, Mr. Bishop became secretary of the 
corporation, four years later secretary-treasurer, and in 1909 he was elected 
president, succeeding the late Charles M. Cooke.
  In addition to his extensive business undertakings, Mr. Bishop has also 
given political, civic and social service to Hawaii. He was elected to the 
territorial senate in 1904 and in 1907 was president of that body. He was 
president of the Queen’s Hospital in 1923, when construction of the present 
modern plant was financed; president of the Chamber of Commerce, 1912-13, has 
served three terms each as president of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ 
Association and the Sugar Factors Co., Ltd., and is a trustee of the B. P. 
Bishop Estate, Queen’s Hospital and the planters’ association.
  Besides being president of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., Mr. Bishop is a director 
of the following corporations: Bank of Hawaii, Ltd.; Hawaiian Agricultural 
Co., Hilo Sugar Co., Honolulu Plantation Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Hutchinson 
Sugar Plantation Co., Matson Navigation Co., Mutual Telephone Co., Ltd.; 
Olowalu Co., Onomea Sugar Co., Paauhau Sugar Plantation Co., Pacific Guano and 
Fertilizer Co., Pepeekeo Sugar Co., Sugar Factors Co., Ltd.; Wailuku Sugar 
Co., and Waimanalo Sugar Co.
  During the Hawaiian rebellion of June 30, 1887, one of the disturbances 
which preceded the revolution and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy in 
1893, Mr. Bishop saw military service as first lieutenant of Co. B., Honolulu 
Rifles. He is a Mason, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Oahu 
Country and Pacific Clubs.
  Born at Naperville, Ill., Oct. 27, 1863, Mr. Bishop is the son of Linus 
Dewey and Frances (Hulbert) Bishop. His father was an attorney and served as a 
major in the 9th Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War. Mr. Bishop was 
educated in the public schools of New York. In 1891 he married Annie Smith 
Walker, daughter of the late John S. Walker of Honolulu.


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