Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hopper, William Lewers February 20, 1856 - 
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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

WILLIAM LEWERS HOPPER. A director of a number of important corporations, and 
trustee of the estate of his late father, James A. Hopper, a pioneer 
manufacturer of Honolulu, William L. Hopper, a resident of the islands since 
early childhood, has been identified with the business life of the community 
for many years.
  Mr. Hopper came to Hawaii in 1860 when a child of four years, making the 
long voyage from Boston by way of Cape Horn with his parents in the clipper 
ship “Syren.” His education was obtained at Punahou School and he later 
attended Bryant and Stratton’s Business College in Brooklyn. Returning to 
Honolulu, he went to work in his father’s rice mill and brass foundry, where 
he remained until the elder Hopper’s death in 1900. Mr. Hopper then assumed 
the management of the rice mill and foundry until 1906, when he retired from 
active business to direct his father’s estate and other interests. Mr. Hopper 
is a director of Waialua Agricultural Co., Ewa Plantation, Hawaiian Sugar Co., 
Olowalu Co., and the Waimanalo Sugar Co.
  Mr. Hopper is interested in religious and welfare work and is a trustee of 
the Christian Church of Honolulu.
  Born on Feb. 20, 1856, in New York City, Mr. Hopper married May Templeton of 
Kansas City, Mo., in 1882, and they had four children, Mrs. J. H. Bowman and 
Mrs. E. R Cameron of Honolulu; Mrs. Katherine Hopper Livingston, who died in 
Honolulu, Sept. 27, 1924, and Mary Ellen, who died in infancy.


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