Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Farmer, Edwin November 25, 1868 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

EDWIN FARMER, Deputy City and County Attorney. A graduate of the classical 
course of the University of Nebraska, 1890, Edwin Farmer came to Hawaii three 
years later as a school teacher and for twenty-four years was an official of 
the federal customs and immigration services. He read law and in 1919 was 
admitted to the bar of Hawaii and on April 15, 1925, assumed his present 
position as deputy city and county attorney of Honolulu. He was born in 
Oneonta, N.Y., Nov. 25, 1868, the son of Edwin T. and Issie (Marble) Farmer, 
and a descendant of an old New York family.
  Mr. Farmer came to Hawaii in 1893, the year of the overthrow of the 
monarchy, and for seven years taught school at Hauula, Honolulu and Ewa, where 
he was principal three years. In 1900 he passed the first examination held in 
the Territory, following annexation, for a federal civil service position. He 
was an inspector of customs until 1907, when he was appointed an immigration 
inspector at San Diego, Calif. A year later he returned to Honolulu and re-
entered the customs service as inspector, later becoming deputy collector. 
Transferred to the immigration service in 1910, he was an inspector here until 
October, 1924, when he began the practice of law, specializing in immigration 
cases. He still maintains his private practice.
  In 1908, Mr. Farmer married Minnie Baker of Omaha, Neb., and they have one 
son, Robert Baker Farmer. Mr. Farmer is a Redman, a member of the Men’s League 
of Central Union church, for two years was president of the National 
Federation of Federal Employes, and is now a member of the Old Guard of 
Hawaii, composed of men who had military service during the overthrow of the 
monarchy and the succeeding re-construction period. He was a corporal of Co. 
B, N.G.H., immediately following the establishment of the Provisional 
Government.


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