Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Chamberlain, William Warren February 13, 1873 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WILLIAM WARREN CHAMBERLAIN, Trustee and Financier. Born of pioneer missionary 
stock, a grandson of Levi Chamberlain, who came to Hawaii in 1823 with the 
second company of missionaries sent out by the American Board and who for many 
years was superintendent of secular affairs for the Board, William W. 
Chamberlain, financier, trustee and a director of some of the larger 
corporations in Hawaii, has always maintained a deep interest in welfare work. 
His father, Warren Chamberlain, was one of the first sugar cane planters at 
Waialua, Oahu.
  Besides acting as trustee and financial agent of various business 
enterprises, Mr. Chamberlain has been a trustee of Oahu College since 1914 and 
is now treasurer of that institution. He is the treasurer of the Hawaiian 
Mission Children’s Society, a member of the Chamber of Commerce committee on 
Charities and Social Welfare, and as a member of the advisory board of the 
Salvation Army had much to do with the building of the Salvation Army Boys’ 
and Girls’ homes.
  Mr. Chamberlain served the Territory as a member of the house of 
representatives at the 1925 session of the Hawaiian legislature, this being 
his first public office.
  After completing his course at Oahu College, Mr. Chamberlain received the 
business training which fitted him for his career in Honolulu in the Bryant 
and Stratton Business College in Chicago. Returning to Honolulu he engaged in 
various commercial lines, being associated with the Hawaiian Gazette Co. in 
1895, the Honolulu post office in 1898, the Bank of Hawaii in 1899 and the 
Kahului Railroad Co. and Paia Plantation Co. in 1900, in which year he joined 
W. O. Smith, then actively engaged with a large private law practice. Mr. 
Smith had a rapidly expanding trust business which was entrusted to the 
managership of Mr. Chamberlain until 1911, when it was incorporated as the 
Guardian Trust Co., Ltd., and Mr. Chamberlain was named manager. In 1920 this 
trust company was amalgamated with the Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., and since that 
time Mr. Chamberlain has been a director and a member of the executive 
committee of the latter corporation. 
  In 1917 he became one of the trustees of the B. M. Allen Trust Estate, and 
he is vice-president of Allen & Robinson, Ltd., and a director of the Oahu 
Railway & Land Co., Honolulu Rapid Transit Co., McBryde Sugar Co., the 
Guardian Building & Loan Association and other corporations.
  Mr. Chamberlain served from 1895 to 1897 in Company B of the Honolulu 
Rifles, during the unsettled period following the Revolution, and as a 
lieutenant of the Mounted Reserve prior to annexation. He holds memberships in 
the Commercial Club, Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, Hawaiian Historical 
Society, Honolulu Ad Club, is a life member of the Queen’s Hospital 
corporation and a member of the Native Sons of Hawaii.
  He was born in Honolulu, Feb. 13, 1873, the son of Warren and Celia P. 
(Wright) Chamberlain. In 1906 Mr. Chamberlain married Clio Newton of Honolulu, 
and they have three children, Warren Levi, Clio Olivia, and Allethea Mabel 
Chamberlain.


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