Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Carlsmith, Carl S. September 4, 1870 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Editor George F. Nellist

CARL S. CARLSMITH. Lawyer. Judicial and legislative service on the Circuit 
Court bench and in the territorial House of Representatives has marked the 
career in Hawaii of Carl S. Carlsmith, for almost thirty years engaged in one 
of the leading attorneys of the Territory.
  Mr. Carlsmith was born at Cambridge, Vermont, Sept. 4, 1870, the son of 
Edward Charles and Marilla (Derby) Smith, whose name was changed to Carlsmith 
by act of the legislature on Jan. 1, 1911. He was educated in the public 
schools of San Jose, Cal., University of California, 1887-1889; Stanford 
University, 1891-1893, A. B., and Northwestern University, LL.B., 1896.
  He began his professional career as librarian, Chicago Law Institute, in 
1895, serving until 1897, when he came to Honolulu, arriving Dec. 27. He went 
to Hilo almost immediately and has practiced there since 1898. He was circuit 
judge, Third and Fourth Circuits, 1898, and was a representative to the 
territorial legislature from the First district in 1905.
  He married Nellie Wood in Atlantic, Iowa, Dec. 2, 1897, and they have four 
children, Leonard Eldon, Margaret Estelle, Carl Wendell, and Merrill Lawrence 
Carlsmith. Mr. Carlsmith is a member of the Authors’ Club, London; Sons of the 
American Revolution, Delta Kappa Epsilon national fraternity, American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, Academy of Political Science, and 
was president of the Hilo Rotary Club, 1920-21.


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