Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Massee, Edward Kingsley 
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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

EDWARD KINGSLEY MASSEE, Lawyer and Soldier. After twenty-five years’ service 
in the United States Army, Edward K. Massee retired with the rank of 
lieutenant colonel in 1920. He was appointed special assistant United States 
attorney for Hawaii in 1923, and resigned from this post in September, 1924, 
to become deputy city and county attorney.
  Col. Massee served in two wars and in every military area in the United 
States, including Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto Rico. Joining the 
army in 1892, he was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, until 1895, when he 
became an instructor in the West Texas Military Academy at San Antonio, 
remaining there two years.
  With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, he re-enlisted, was 
made a sergeant and later commissioned a first lieutenant of Wisconsin 
Infantry, seeing service in Porto Rico. In 1899 he enlisted in the 43rd 
Volunteers, was assigned to the Philippines and commissioned a second 
lieutenant in the 7th Infantry in 1901. He was made a first lieutenant in 
1905, and upon his return to the mainland took up the study of law at the 
University of Minnesota, receiving an LL.B. degree in 1908. Commissioned a 
captain in 1915, Col. Massee was appointed major, judge advocate, in May, 
1917, and in August of the same year was promoted to lieutenant colonel, judge 
advocate.
  Col. Massee first came to Hawaii in March, 1913, serving until 1916 in the 
department of the judge advocate, and was again assigned to Hawaii in 
February, 1919, and has since resided here. During the World War he was judge 
advocate of the 76th Division, serving in France until 1919 as acting chief of 
staff and later being transferred to the Sixth Army Corps as judge advocate.
  Born at Alma Center, Jackson County, Wis., Col. Massee is the son of Rev. 
William and Laura Jane (Davenport) Massee. He received his early education at 
Hamlin University, Wisconsin, and subsequently was graduated with honors from 
the Infantry and Cavalry School, United States Army, at Fort Leavenworth, 
1904, and the Army Staff College, 1905.
  Col. Massee and Therese Lyons were married at St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 27, 
1902. He is a member of the Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C., and various 
military organizations.


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