Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....King, Robert Davis March 12, 1882 - 
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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

ROBERT DAVIS KING, Deputy Territorial Surveyor. Robert D. King has spent his 
entire professional life in the office of the territorial surveyor of Hawaii, 
entering that branch of the government service in 1900 as a rodman and 
chainman and becoming assistant surveyor. In 1915 he was appointed to his 
present position as deputy territorial surveyor. In that capacity he is chief 
assistant in charge of the Honolulu office, which is engaged in the survey of 
public lands and homestead divisions.
  During the World war Mr. King served as lieutenant of the Second United 
States Infantry, in Hawaii, at Camp Fremont, Calif., and Camp Dodge, Iowa. He 
is a past department commander of the American Legion and secretary of the 
Honolulu chapter of the American Association of Engineers, and a member of the 
Commercial Club.
  Born in Honolulu on March 12, 1882, he is the son of James Anderson and 
Charlotte (Davis) King and a descendant of Scotch, New England and Hawaiian 
ancestry. He is a representative of the fifth generation of his family 
residing in Hawaii, his great, great-grandfather, Oliver Holmes, having 
arrived in the islands in 1793, and was later governor of Oahu under 
appointment of Kamehameha I. He is the grandson of Robert G. Davis, an 
associate justice of the Supreme Court under the Hawaiian monarchy, and his 
father was minister of the interior under the Republic of Hawaii.
  Mr. King attended St. Louis College, the public schools of Honolulu and the 
Honolulu High School. In 1920 he married Bernice Bishop Aldrich of Honolulu, 
and they have four children, Ailene, Frances, James Aldrich and Bernice Pauahi 
King. Mrs. King is the granddaughter of the late William A. Aldrich, a 
copartner of the late Charles R. Bishop in founding the present Bank of Bishop 
& Co., Ltd. Mr. Aldrich later went to San Francisco and was one of the 
founders of the Bank of California and several other financial institutions 
around the bay. Mrs. King was the godchild of the late Charles R. and Princess 
Bernice Pauahi Bishop, having been named for the latter.


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