Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Marx, Benjamin Lodge 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

BENJAMIN LODGE MARX, Attorney. Benjamin L. Marx, attorney and art patron, 
associated with one of the leading law firms of the Territory, has been active 
in affairs of Hawaii since the last years of the Nineteenth Century.
  When Hawaii was a Republic, Mr. Marx was secretary of the executive council 
of the Republic and private secretary to President Sanford B. Dole and 
participated in the historic events which marked the passing of the monarchy 
and the birth of the Territory. During the Hawaiian Revolution he was a member 
of Company B, National Guard, in 1895, and a member of the Mounted Reserve.
  At the time of annexation in 1898, Mr. Marx was made secretary of the 
commission appointed to draft the Organic Act. The following year he was 
admitted to the bar and formed a law partnership with the late Francis M. 
Hatch. Since that time he has practiced law in Honolulu, since 1909 as a 
member of the firm of Frear, Prosser, Anderson & Marx.
  Aside from his professional career, Mr. Marx has long been identified with 
cultural movements in Honolulu. Interested in music, he was one of the 
organizers and a director of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra in 1924, an 
organization which has met with enthusiastic support from music lovers of the 
community. He is also a patron of the visual arts and has served for several 
terms as president of the Honolulu Art Society and the Academy of Design.
  During the World War Mr. Marx served as a member of the local draft board, 
No. 2.
  Mr. Marx was born in San Francisco, the son of David and Margaret W. 
(Houston) Marx. He was educated in California schools. He married Mary Eloise 
Castle, daughter of Alfred Castle and granddaughter of Samuel Northrup Castle, 
early missionary and merchant of Honolulu, November 28, 1900. They have town 
children, Benjamin Lodge Marx, Jr., and Drusilla Marx.
  He is a member of the American and Honolulu Bar Associations, Hawaiian 
Historical Society, Pacific, Commercial, Hawaii Polo and Racing and Oahu 
Country Clubs, Beretania and Neighborhood Tennis Clubs and Honolulu Lodge, No. 
409, F. & A.M.


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