Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Forbes, William Joseph October 8, 1866 - 
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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

WILLIAM JOSEPH FORBES, Estate Accountant. Representing the third generation of 
an old missionary family in Hawaii, William J. Forbes, notary public and 
accountant for the J. B. Atherton Estate, Ltd., was born in Honolulu, Oct. 8, 
1866, son of Rev. Anderson O. and Maria J. (Chamberlain) Forbes. His maternal 
grandfather was Levi Chamberlain, one of the earliest missionaries to Hawaii 
and on his father’s side he is descended from Rev. Cochran Forbes, also an 
early missionary.
  Mr. Forbes attended school at Punahou, from which he was graduated in 1888. 
Beginning work in 1889, he was associated for twenty-one years with the law 
office of William O. Smith, resigning in 1910 to take his present position. He 
served as assistant manager of Lunalilo Home from 1889 to 1901. Active in 
church work, Mr. Forbes is treasurer of Central Union Church.
  Mr. Forbes and Kate D. Watson were married at Paia, Maui, Jan. 27, 1901. 
They have five children, Theodore Watson, Frederick Blatchford, Marion 
Chamberlain, Frances Alicia and Katherine Wilhelmina Forbes. Mr. Forbes is a 
charter member of the Hawaiian Society of Sons of the American Revolution and 
a member of the Chamber of Commerce.


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