Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Paris, Edwin Hall March 2, 1873 - March 25, 1921
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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

EDWIN HALL PARIS, Business Executive.	A son of Thomas Hudson Paris, who came 
to Hawaii in early days and was connected for many years with the Waiehu 
plantation on Maui, now a part of the Wailuku Sugar Co.’s estate, the late 
Edwin H. Paris was born at Waiehu, March 2, 1873, and spent his life as a 
business builder in Honolulu and a leader in civic affairs. His mother was 
Catherine (Lewers) Paris, sister of Christopher Lewers, founder of Lewers & 
Cooke, Ltd., and a cousin of the late Robert Lewers.
  His family moved to San Diego, Calif., when he was young and his boyhood was 
spent in that California city, where he attended the public schools. Upon 
completing a business course in San Francisco he returned to Hawaii and 
entered the employ of E. O. Hall & Son, and for twenty-seven years served that 
firm variously as auditor, secretary-treasurer and manager, a period of rapid 
expansion and growth under his direction.
  In 1918 Mr. Paris resigned from the E. O. Hall & Son and became treasurer 
and general manager of the Schuman Carriage Co., Ltd., a position he held 
until his death on March 25, 1921.
  Mr. Paris was always identified with Chamber of Commerce activities and was 
a member of the board of directors for several terms. In 1918 he was chairman 
of the Territorial Fair Commission and managed a successful exposition. He was 
a former president of the Commercial Club, board of trustees of that lodge, 
and served several terms as a trustee of Honolulu Lodge of Elks, No. 616.
  In 1898, Mr. Paris married Margaret Marie Schmidt of Honolulu, daughter of 
the late Hon. H. W. Schmidt, prominent business man and for years consul in 
Hawaii for Norway and Sweden. Mr. and Mrs. Paris had five children, Mrs. J. A. 
Bruckner, wife of Lieut. J. A. Bruckner, now stationed on Governor’s Island, 
N.Y.; Edwin Lewers Paris, with Lewers & Cooke; Irvine H. Paris, West Point 
cadet; Marguerite R. Paris of Honolulu, and Robert Henry Paris, a student at 
Punahou.


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