Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Brenham, Charles James April 19, 1895 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

CHARLES JAMES BRENHAM, Department Manager. A grandson of James I. Dowsett, a 
notable figure in the early years of Hawaii’s business development, and 
Charles J. Brenham, the first mayor of San Francisco, Calif., Charles J. 
Brenham was born in Honolulu on April 19, 1895. His father was Robert B. 
Brenham, pioneer insurance agent, who came to Honolulu to insure the life of 
King Kalakaua, and his mother was Annie (Dowsett) Brenham.
  He attended Punahou, Staunton Military Academy, Virginia; and George 
Washington University, Washington, D.C., until the outbreak of the World War, 
when he enlisted in the United States navy and, after ten months in convoy 
duty in the Atlantic, was commissioned an ensign in the naval aviation 
service. He then served as an instructor in aviation at Pensacola, Fla., until 
his discharge from service in Sept., 1919.
  For two years Mr. Brenham was in charge of a stock and bond office in New 
York City, and in 1921 he returned to Hawaii and began work for the Kauai 
Railway Co., at Port Allen, Kauai. In January, 1922, he came to Honolulu and 
became one of the department managers of the Graystone Garage. In that year 
the Graystone Garage began as a Goodyear tire agency and general garage only. 
It has since taken on the sales agencies for the Willys-Knight, Overland, 
Paige and Jewett cars, and in 1924 handled a business of more that $1,000,000.
  Mr. Brenham is a member of the Hawaiian Civic Club, Native Sons of Hawaii, 
Beretania Tennis Club and the American Legion. In 1921 he married Lucile 
Hallor of Louisville, Ky., and they have two children, Charles J. Brenham, 
Jr., and Patricia Brenham.


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