Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....James, Frank Leicester October 31, 1888 - 
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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

FRANK LEICESTER JAMES, Importer and Exporter. Frank L. James, president and 
manager of the Pan-Pacific Traders, Ltd., manufacturers’ agents and importers 
and exporters with an extensive business reaching every country of the 
Pacific, came to Honolulu in 1904 when a boy, to join his parents, and entered 
business life five years later.
  Incorporated in 1917, the Pan-Pacific Traders, Ltd., was an outgrowth of 
Greenbaugh & James, manufacturers’ agents, a partnership organized in 1916. 
Mr. James served as vice-president and manager of the firm and became its 
president in 1920. Dealing in dry goods, building materials and other lines of 
merchandise, the company has business connections with Australia, New Zealand, 
the Orient and the mainland of the United States.
  Graduated from McKinley High School in 1909, Mr. James went to work for the 
Waterhouse Company, rubber factors, with whom he was associated until 1914. 
During the World War he was a member of the first officers’ training camp at 
Schofield Barracks, and later attended the officers’ school at Camp Pike, 
Arkansas.
  Born at San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 31, 1888, Mr. James is the son of Dr. 
William F. and Sarah Ellen James. Dr. James came to Hawaii in 1903, and has 
since been connected with the U.S. Public Health Service in Honolulu.
  Mr. James married Frances Lucia Josephson at Grenfal, N.S.W., April 3, 1914. 
They have three children, Francis Joseph P., Margaret Helen and Theodore Ralph 
James. He is a Mason and a member of the American Defense Society, Honolulu 
Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club.


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