Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hapai, Henry Chase April 21, 1873 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HENRY CHASE HAPAI, Treasurer of Hawaii. For more than thirty years connected 
with the treasurer’s office, Henry C. Hapai in that period of service has 
advanced from the humble post of errand boy to the office of territorial 
treasurer. In this position, which requires an expert knowledge of finance, 
Mr. Hapai has general supervision over financial affairs of the Territory. He 
is charged with the enforcement of revenue laws, tax collections and the 
custody and disbursement of public funds. He is also insurance commissioner, 
fire marshal and bank examiner of Hawaii.
  Mr. Hapai began his long career in government service in 1894, becoming an 
office boy in the bureau of finance and treasurer’s department under the 
provisional government. He later became a bookkeeper and in 1901 was named 
registrar of public accounts and ex-officio bank examiner. He was appointed 
deputy insurance commissioner in 1909 and deputy fire marshal in 1917, 
becoming chief of these departments when he was appointed treasurer in Sept., 
1922, by Governor W. R. Farrington.
  Born at Hilo, Hawaii, April 21, 1873, Mr. Hapai is the son of George W. A. 
and Harriet Rebecca (Sniffen) Hapai. His maternal grandfather was Benjamin 
Henry Sniffen, a Pennsylvanian of English descent, who settled on Maui in 1846 
and married Kamakanoenoe Nahinalau, later becoming an extensive land owner. 
Mr. Hapai’s father was a lawyer and jurist who held government office for 
thirty-six years in Hawaii.
  Mr. Hapai was educated in the schools of Hilo and was graduated from Oahu 
College in 1893. He married Alice Keonaona Wilson, daughter of John Wilson, a 
merchant, Nov. 14, 1908. They have four children, Alice Keonaona, Irene Iehu, 
Henry Chase, Jr., and Betty Virginia Kamakanoenoe Hapai. In politics Mr. Hapai 
is a Republican. He is a Mason and a Shriner.


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