Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Childs, Clinton S. February 14, 1883 - 
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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

CLINTON S. CHILDS, Welfare Worker. The present social service program of the 
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, which is becoming more and more 
effective in raising the morale of plantation laborers, is largely based on 
the recommendations of Clinton S. Childs, who after almost a score of years in 
social welfare work was appointed to his present position of head worker at 
Alexander House Settlement, Wailuku, Maui.
  He attended the University of Missouri for three years and Cornell 
University for one year. After being graduated from Cornell in 1907 he took an 
additional year of post-graduate work at Columbia University. He began his 
career before graduation, serving as playground director for St. Louis, 1906-
1907, and with the United States Department of Labor, 1907-1910. The next two 
years he was a senior fellow of the New York School of Philanthropy, 
investigating juvenile delinquency for that institution and for the Russell 
Sage Foundation.
  In 1912 he became field agent for the Federal Tariff board and also served 
until 1914 as secretary of the New York Social Center committee. He was chief 
organizer of the University of Wisconsin Extension Division for the Milwaukee 
district, 1914-1916, and welfare manager for E. A. Filenes & Sons, Boston, 
1916-1918.
  Mr. Childs arrived in Hawaii in 1919 to make a social survey for the 
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, his recommendations serving as the basis 
for the present welfare program. He has been head worker at the Alexander 
House Settlement since 1920, with supervision over the social service work of 
Central and West Maui. During the World War he was assigned to the training 
camp for infantry officers at Camp Fremont, Cal., but the armistice was signed 
two days before he reached that destination. He has written many pamphlets and 
articles on welfare work. He is a member of the Maui Board of Prison 
Inspectors, chairman of the Malnutrition Commission of Maui county, and 
superintendent of the Maui County Fresh Air Camp.
  Born at St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 14, 1883, he is the son of Theodore and Ella 
Childs. He married Eleanor M. Langwith, Oct. 22, 1921, and they have one 
child, Clinton Langwith Childs. He is a Knight of Pythias.


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