Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Clemons, Charles Frederic October 9, 1871 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com February 23, 2011, 7:12 pm 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 CHARLES FREDERIC CLEMONS, Lawyer and Jurist. Charles F. Clemons has been active for more than twenty years in the legal profession of Honolulu. He has assisted materially in the revision of territorial laws and has served on the federal bench. Much of his time has been devoted to writing, especially on public questions, and he has contributed articles to newspapers and law periodicals. Now engaged in private practice, he was elected president of the Bar Association of Hawaii in 1924, having been for many years a leader in its various activities, its secretary for several years and its vice president from 1921 to 1924. Since 1920 he has been a member of the local council of the American Bar Association for Hawaii, and for some years a member of the Hawaii commission on uniform laws and since 1923 its chairman. He has been actively interested in citizenship education and in reforming court practice in masterships. On coming to Honolulu in 1902, he became associated in practice with Judge W. Austin Whiting, former attorney-general and Supreme Court justice of Hawaii. In 1904 the partnership of Thompson (F. E.) & Clemons was formed, which in 1909 became the law firm of Thompson, Clemons & Wilder (Judge Arthur A.) Judge Clemons was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court in 1907. He received an appointment as United States District Judge in 1911, and remained on the bench until his resignation in 1917. Until recently, he was associated with Judge E. M. Watson, in the firm of Watson & Clemons. He was secretary of the commission to revise the laws of Hawaii, 1903-1905, and member of a similar commission, 1913-1915. He was chancellor of the Protestant Episcopal church from 1907 to 1911 and is a member of the board of directors of that church. He has been a vestryman of St. Clements church for about twenty years, and a director of the Y.M.C.A. from 1913 to 1923. Born at Manchester, Vermont, Oct. 9, 1871, Judge Clemons is the son of Dr. Seneca S. and Anna (Danforth) Clemons, and a direct descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice, who settled near Sudbury, Mass., in 1638; and of Peter Harwood, prominent as an early settler of Vermont, and is also of the Sherman family. He was educated in the public schools of Vermont and at Vermont Academy, where he was editor-in-chief of the school monthly. He received a B.A. degree at Yale University in 1895, graduating with special honors in natural and physical science, and being an editor of the Yale Daily News, a position won in competition with the highest credit for both editorials and body articles of any man who ever “heeled” the “oldest college daily.” He attended the Yale Law School in 1897 and part of 1898, was chairman of the Yale Law Journal in 1897-1898, and in 1897 was awarded the Yale Law School prize for an essay, “Competition in Restraint of Trade.” He received from the National University Law School, Washington, D.C., an LL.B. degree in 1898, and an LL.M. degree in 1899. Judge Clemons was admitted to practice in Connecticut in 1898. He practiced law at Burlington, Vermont, for a short time, going to Butte, Montana, in 1900, where he remained two years before coming to Hawaii. Judge Clemons married Virginia Armstrong Patten of Butte, Montana, on Sept. 10, 1902. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Chiefs of Hawaii, University, Outrigger and Oahu Country Clubs, and the law school fraternity Phi Delta Phi. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/clemons248bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb