Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Frazee, William Lincoln July 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 LINCOLN FRAZEE, Electrical Engineer. In charge of Honolulu’s electric 
lighting system for a quarter of a century, William L. Frazee has directed and 
planned the city’s street lighting system since 1899, increasing the number of 
street lights from the 130 in use at that time to the present number of 4,000. 
Arriving in Honolulu in 1895, Mr. Frazee served four years as superintendent 
of construction for the Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd., before assuming his 
present position.
  Born at Fairfax Court House, Virginia, July 8, 1866, the son of Robert and 
Mary (Ferguson) Frazee, Mr. Frazee removed to California with his parents, 
receiving his education in the schools of Sacramento. His first position was 
in the railroad shops at Sacramento, where he was a mechanic and locomotive 
builder from 1880 to 1884. For two years following he was connected with the 
Sacramento Electric Light Co., going to Santa Barbara in 1886 to install the 
first electric light plant in that city.
  Entering the employ of the Oakland Gas and Electric Co. in 1888 under the 
late John I. Britten, he remained with that corporation for two years. In 1890 
Mr. Frazee became associated with the Electric Improvement Co., and while with 
that firm assisted in the installation of an electric light system in the 
Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Mr. Frazee later entered the engineer’s 
department of the steamship “Alameda,” and before locating in Hawaii made four 
trips to Australia on that vessel.
  Mr. Frazee and Minnie Purdy, sister-in-law of the Hon. Charles F. Curry, 
California congressman, were married in Honolulu in 1896. He is a Mason, 
Knight Templar, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias (past chancellor), a past 
exalted ruler of Honolulu lodge of Elks, a past district deputy of the Elks 
and was a delegate to the national Elks’ convention held at Atlanta, Ga., in 
July, 1923.


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