Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Grounds, Arthur March 21, 1882 - 
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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

ARTHUR GROUNDS, Plantation Accountant. Entering business with a large 
Warrington merchandise concern upon the completion of his commercial training 
at St. James’, and Technical School, Warrington, England; Smart’s Business 
College in Warrington and a Liverpool commercial college, Arthur Grounds 
continued there until he came to Hawaii in 1912. While in England he was also 
a teacher in the Warrington Technical Evening School.
  Upon coming to the United States, he took further business courses with the 
La Salle Extension University and Pace and Pace Institute, and his first 
position in Hawaii was with the Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd. In 1915 Mr. 
Grounds joined the staff of Wall & Dougherty, at the end of 1916 he became 
associated with the Audit CO. of Hawaii, Ltd., and in 1920 he assumed his 
present position as chief accountant for the Oahu Sugar Co., Ltd., at Waipahu, 
Oahu.
  Mr. Grounds is a naturalized American citizen, a Republican in politics, a 
fellow of the Incorporated Society of Shorthand Teachers of England, associate 
member of the Faculty of Teachers in Commerce, a member of the National 
Association of Cost Accountants, a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner.
  Born in Warrington, Lancashire, England, on March 21, 1882, he is the son of 
Peter and Mary (Hewitt) Grounds. In 1913 he married Lily Miller, and they have 
two children, Arthur Edward and Florence Mary Grounds.


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