Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Ordenstein, Jacob Kanei February 24, 1881 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com November 18, 2011, 7:13 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist JACOB KANEI ORDENSTEIN, Funeral Director. For more than 15 years Jacob K. Ordenstein has been manager and a partner in Silva’s undertaking establishment. He is the son of Barney and Emily Mileka (Kekulanui) Ordenstein, and was born in Honolulu Feb. 24, 1881. His education was received at St. Louis College and the Kamehameha Schools. His first employment was with Pearson & Potter in 1898 as a machinist. The next year he went to the Pacific Cycle & Mfg. Co. as a shop foreman. E. O. Hall & Son obtained his services in 1901 as a machinist and he was promoted to mechanical foreman in 1906. He resigned in 1909 to become associated with Silva’s undertaking establishment. Mr. Ordenstein has always taken an active interest in politics as a Democrat and is a member of the Honolulu Civil Service Commission and the Democratic county committee. He also is president of the Democratic Club for the seventh precinct, fourth district of Oahu. He is a trustee of Honolulu Council No. 1, Native Sons of Hawaii, and a member of Hawaii Chapter, No. 1, Order of Kamehameha, and the Hawaiian Civic Club. He married Odelia Ruphina Silva on July 26, 1905, and three children have been born to them, Walter Leilehua, Muriel Nalani and Juanita Kuulei Ordenstein. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/ordenste442bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb