Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Cooke, Clarence Hyde April 17, 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

CLARENCE HYDE COOKE, Banker and Legislator. Clarence Hyde Cooke, banker and 
legislator, is a member of the third generation of his family in Hawaii, a son 
of Charles M. Cooke and grandson of Amos Starr Cooke, who came to the islands 
from New England with one of the early companies of missionaries.
  Mr. Cooke, since leaving college in 1897, has been prominently identified 
with the financial and civic life of Honolulu, and has had years of service as 
a member of the territorial legislature. First elected to the legislature in 
1913, Mr. Cooke served in the 1915 and 1917 sessions and special session of 
1918 as a member of the finance committee of the House of Representatives, and 
was again elected a Representative in 1920, serving at the special session of 
that year and in the regular session of 1921. He was Speaker of the House, 
1923 session. For the year 1922 he was president of the Honolulu Chamber of 
Commerce.
  Born in Honolulu on April 17, 1876, the son of Charles Montague Cooke and 
Anna (Rice) Cooke, Mr. Cooke was graduated from Punahou College in 1894 and 
entered Yale, returning to Honolulu in 1897 to begin his business career with 
the Hawaiian Safe Deposit and Trust Co. Later, he entered The Bank of Hawaii, 
Ltd., and became its president in 1909, upon the death of his father, who 
preceded him in that office.
  During the World War Mr. Cooke served as chairman of the local board, 
Division No. 1, of the selective service draft, under a commission from 
President Woodrow Wilson, and was a captain in the National Guard of Hawaii, 
in charge of the Honolulu Armory, where he was stationed. He also inaugurated 
the postal censorship bureau in Honolulu, in cooperation with a joint 
committee of army, navy and postal authorities.
  Mr. Cooke is an officer or director of the Hawaiian Trust CO., Ltd.; 
Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd.; C. Brewer & Co., Ltd.; Lihue Plantation Co., the 
Wailuku Sugar Co. and many other corporations. He is a member of the Pacific, 
University and Country Clubs.
  On Aug. 11, 1898, Mr. Cooke married Miss Lily Love, daughter of the late 
Robert Love. Their eight children are Dorothea, Martha, Anna, Clarence, Jr., 
Harrison, Alice, Robert and John.


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