Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Gear, Albert Van Clief August 23, 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

ALBERT VAN CLIEF GEAR, Director Territorial Budget. Two years after he arrived 
in Honolulu to become vice-principal of the high school and teacher of higher 
mathematics and Latin, Albert V. C. Gear transferred his activities to a 
business career and from 1919 to 1925 he was deputy auditor of the Territory 
of Hawaii. He also engaged in journalism, being part owner and publisher of 
the Evening Bulletin until its amalgamation with the Star into the present 
Honolulu Star-Bulletin. In June, 1925, Mr. Gear was appointed by Governor W. 
R. Farrington to the responsible post of director of the newly organized 
territorial budget.
  Born in Quincy, Plumas County, Calif., Aug. 23, 1866, he is the son of Hiram 
Lewis and Cornelia (Van Clief) Gear. His education was obtained at Denison 
University, Granville, Ohio, and the University of California, from which he 
was graduated in 1887.
  He came to Honolulu in September, 1889, as vice-principal of the high 
school. In 1891 he resigned to enter the employ of J. T. Waterhouse as 
bookkeeper, serving in that position for three years, when he engaged in the 
real estate business. He was a member of the legislature in 1898 and a member 
of the Council of State, 1898-1900.
  Mr. Gear opened up the Kaimuki district of Honolulu in 1897, this large 
section having previously been used as an ostrich farm. A water company to 
supply the district was organized by Mr. Gear and the Kaimuki reservoir was 
constructed. The water company was later sold to the Territory. Mr. Gear re-
entered public life in 1917 as chief clerk of the Honolulu district court, but 
resigned in 1919 to become deputy territorial auditor, an office he held for 
six years.
  On Aug. 28, 1890, Mr. Gear married Addie Peterson, sister of the late A. P. 
Peterson, attorney general of the Kingdom and a member of the cabinet of Queen 
Liliuokalani at the time of the overthrow of the monarchy. Three children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Gear, Harold Van Clief, Hazel (Gear) Raseman, and Albert 
Kenneth Gear (deceased).


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