Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Bukeley, Rudolph April 14, 1878 - 
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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

RUDOLPH BUKELEY, Life Insurance Underwriter. Rudolph Bukeley, special agent of 
the New York Life Insurance Co., has also had wide business experience as a 
merchant, corporation official and banker, since he made his home in Honolulu 
in 1906, a period of residence broken only by American war work in 1918-19. 
Since his affiliation with the New York Life Insurance Co. in 1921, he has 
twice won the vice-presidency of the Pacific Department of the 
company’s “$200,000 Club.” In 1924 he ranked amongst the first five writers of 
this company and, due to his intimate knowledge of inheritance tax and trust 
subjects, is looked upon as one of the leading authorities in the life 
insurance profession.
  Mr. Bukeley’s first position in Honolulu was that of secretary and director 
of W. C. Peacock & Co., Ltd., which he assumed in Oct., 1906. The following 
year he was elected vice-president of the firm. He disposed of his interests 
in the business in 1915 to become cashier and a director of the First National 
Bank of Hawaii, and secretary and a director of the First American Savings and 
Trust Co., Ltd. Continuing his connection with the bank until 1918, Mr. 
Bukeley resigned at that time to enter active field service with the American 
Red Cross, spending almost a year in Russia and Siberia.
  He served as business manager of the “Allied Anti-Typhus Expedition in 
Western Siberia,” and upon the director being stricken with typhus was 
appointed by the allies to that position. In this capacity, with rank as 
captain in the United States Army, he directed a personnel of 43 men, and was 
in charge of a typhus-fighting train, which was financed by the allies 
(America, Japan, France, England, Canada, Czecho-Slavakia) and operated by the 
American Red Cross. The expedition left Vladivostok in Jan., 1919, for the 
Ural front, where its members visited remote Siberian settlements and 
Hungarian prison camps, bathing and delousing the troops of the late Admiral 
Kolschak, and working among the civilian and military hospitals, and with 
typhus stricken war prisoners.
  During this work 17 of the personnel themselves became infected with this 
dread disease, and were either treated on the train, or sent back to an 
American Red Cross hospital at Petropavlovsk, some 600 miles in the rear of 
its operations. Upon his recall to Vladivostok, Mr. Bukeley was ordered to 
proceed to Omsk, where he called at Admiral Kolschak’s headquarters, and 
received the thanks of the Russian Siberian government, through its minister 
of war, General Stepanoff. He further received a citation from General 
Kappell, commanding the first Volga “storm” troops at Kourgan, for his work 
among Russian troops at Kourgan, Urgomish and Mishkino. He also received the 
thanks of the British Military Mission at Omsk, the French Military Mission at 
Novo Nikolaievsk, and the Czecho-Slovakian Mission at Vladivostok. Later he 
received the thanks and special mention from the Siberian Commission of the 
America Red Cross.
  Upon his return to Honolulu, July 6, 1919, Mr. Bukeley was elected a vice-
president of the First National Bank, holding this position until Dec. 31, 
1920, when he resigned to enter the insurance field.
  Born in Lancashire, England, April 14, 1878, Mr. Bukeley received his 
education in England (Roan’s College-Greenwich), going to San Francisco in 
1896, where he was employed by the Bank of British North America.
  Mr. Bukeley and Lucinda Noble Butler, daughter of Colonel William Patterson 
Butler, U.S.A., and Florence (Rodman) Butler, were married at Berkeley, 
Calif., on April 23, 1906. They have two daughters, Martha Ann (born May 27, 
1915), and Margaret Rodman (born June 27, 1917).
  Mr. Bukeley is a Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner. He is a member of 
Funston Post No. 94, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Chiefs of Hawaii, National 
Aeronautic Association, Commercial, Country (charter member) and Outrigger 
Canoe Clubs, and the Chamber of Commerce.


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