Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Cockburn, James Lowrie February 1, 1876 - 
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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

JAMES LOWRIE COCKBURN, Banker. James Lowrie Cockburn, vice-president and 
manager of the oldest banking institution in Hawaii, received his preliminary 
training in financial affairs in Scotland.
  Born in Dalkeith, Scotland, on Feb. 1, 1876, Mr. Cockburn was educated at 
the Edinburgh Institution, Edinburgh, and entered business with the Edinburgh 
branch of the Union Assurance Society of London in 1893. He remained in his 
native land until 1899, when he came to Honolulu to join the staff of Bishop & 
Co., Bankers. He was made a member of the firm in 1912, and seven years later, 
when Bishop & Co., incorporated under the name of The Bank of Bishop & Co., 
Ltd., he was named vice-president and manager, offices he still holds.
  Aside from his connection with the bank, Mr. Cockburn is a director of the 
Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., and the Bishop Insurance Agency, Ltd., is a member of 
the Order of the British Empire and a director of the Social Service Bureau. 
He is also a trustee of the S. M. Damon Estate and a director of the Dowsett 
Col, Ltd., and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Commercial, Pacific, and 
Oahu Country Clubs.
  In 1907 he married Eliza Victoria King at Victoria, B.C., and they have two 
children, Ranald and Evelyn.


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