Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hite, Charles Maner August 8, 1893 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com September 13, 2011, 8:13 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist CHARLES MANER HITE, Lawyer. Seven years of practice in Honolulu has brought Charles M. Hite, one of the younger members of the bar of Hawaii, to an honored position in his profession, and, incidentally, to active leadership in the Democratic organization if the Territory. Mr. Hite first arrived in Hawaii in 1915, coming from California, where he had resided for a year. He returned to the mainland in 1916, received an LL.B degree at Vanderbilt University in 1917, and at once came back to Hawaii. He was clerk of the First Circuit Court under Judge William L. Whitney for one year, from 1915 until his departure for his university. Mr. Hite’s legal career began in 1917, when he was admitted to the bar of Hawaii. For a short time he was a law clerk with Frank E. Thompson, and with Smith, Warren & Whitney. After the entry of the United States into the World War, he resigned from the National Guard, in which organization he had served from 1915, and volunteered. He was eventually commissioned a second lieutenant in the regular army and was ordered to San Diego, where he was assigned to the 21st U. S. Infantry. He was discharged Dec. 4, 1918. After his discharge Mr. Hite resumed his law work in Honolulu. In 1919 he was appointed deputy city and county attorney. Resigning from that office in 1921 he became a member of the law firm of Watson, Clemons & Hite. He engaged in practice alone in July, 1922, and now maintains offices in the Castle & Cooke building. Mr. Hite was president of the Democratic precinct club of the 3rd precinct, 4th District, in 1922. In the same year and in 1923 he was elected chairman of the territorial central committee of his party. He is at present a member of the central committee and chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic party in Hawaii. He has served as chairman of numerous territorial committees on conventions, rules, finance and campaigns. He was responsible, in 1924, for leading through and securing a complete revision and reformation of the party rules. Born at Newport, Arkansas, Aug. 8, 1893, the son of Charles Randolph and Carrie Bolling (Lawton) Hite, Mr. Hite is descended on the paternal side from Baron Yost Heydt, of Strasbourg, who, in his ships the “Friendship” and “Swift” emigrated to New York in 1710 and who later, in 1731, removed his family and dependents to colonize the Shenandoah Valley. On the maternal side he is descended from the union of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, of Heachem, County Norfolk, who settled at Jamestown in 1607. With one exception Mr. Hite’s ancestors of military age all served as officers in America’s Colonial and Revolutionary Wars. Educated at Randolph-Macon College at Ashland, Va. In 1912 he entered Vanderbilt University where, after an absence of two years, he finished his law course in 1917. He was there president of the senior class and of the John Marshall Law Court. Mr. Hite and Alice Gertrude Atkinson, great granddaughter of Captain James Makee, were married in Honolulu, Aug. 31, 1921. They have one son, Robert Atkinson Hite. Mr. Hite is a member of the University and Oahu Country Clubs, of the Hawaiian and American Bar Associations, American Legion, and of various civic organizations. He is a Mason, and a member of Phi Delta Phi (legal) and Phi Kappa Sigma fraternities. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/hite17gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/hifiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb