Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Mott-Smith, Ernest A. May 12, 1873 - 
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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

ERNEST A. MOTT-SMITH, Lawyer. As a public official, lawyer, and progressive 
private citizen, Ernest A. Mott-Smith has been engaged in his native Honolulu 
during his entire professional career of almost thirty years.
  Admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of the Territory, March 18, 1898, 
Mr. Mott-Smith was immediately called into official service. He was appointed 
Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Hawaii, although he was then 
but 25, the youngest man ever named for that important position under either 
the Monarchy or the Republic. During the same period he also acted as Minister 
of Public Instruction, ex-officio, and as a member of the Board of Immigration.
  Shortly after Hawaii was organized as an American territory in June, 1900, 
Mr. Mott-Smith was appointed commissioner of public instruction on June 22, 
1900, and in 1903 he became a member of the territorial Board of Health. In 
1907 he was appointed Secretary of the Territory and in 1909 he served as 
President of the Board of Health. He was also Chairman of the Public Utilities 
Commission in 1914, a member of the Board of Supervisors of Honolulu in 1917, 
and since 1921 he has again been a member of the Board of Health.
  Aside from his governmental duties, Mr. Mott-Smith practiced law alone in 
Honolulu from 1917 to 1922, and has since practiced by himself.
  Born in Honolulu, May 12, 1873, the son of the distinguished Dr. John Mott-
Smith and Ellen Dominis (Paty) Mott-Smith, Mr. Mott-Smith when five years old 
was taken to the mainland. From 1879 to 1881 he attended the public schools of 
San Francisco, completing his early education at Allan’s English and Classical 
School at West Newton, Mass., and the grammar and high school at Plymouth, 
Mass. In 1891 he was graduated from Chauncey Hall School in Boston and from 
1891 to 1895 he attended Harvard University.
  In 1896 he married Anne Elizabeth Paty and they have five children, Stanley, 
Ernest Campbell, Robert Hartwell, Helen, and Anne Mott-Smith.


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