Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Parker, Esmond Inman March 2, 1893 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ESMOND INMAN PARKER, Theatrical Executive. The son of Captain J. R. Parker, 
who was associated with Walter F. Dillingham in the organization of the 
Hawaiian Dredging Co. and who played an important part in the development of 
Honolulu, Pearl and Kahului harbors, Esmond I. Parker has lived in the islands 
since early childhood.
  Captain Parker was born in England, but ran away to sea when a lad, and 
followed it for twenty years, becoming a master mariner. In 1899 he was sent 
to Honolulu by a San Francisco dredging concern to build the dredge which made 
the excavations for the first railroad docks and modern piers in Honolulu 
harbor. He was so markedly successful in this work that he and Mr. Dillingham 
joined forces in the organization of the dredging company. Captain Parker 
retired in 1908, and now makes his home in California.
  Esmond I. Parker, now secretary-treasurer and assistant general manager of 
the Consolidated Amusement Co., Ltd., and manager of the Honolulu office, 
followed several lines of endeavor before assuming his present positions.
  Mr. Parker was born in Oakland, Calif., March 2, 1893, the son of J. R. and 
Delphina (Inman) Parker. When five years old he came to the islands with his 
parents. His early education was obtained at Punahou school and the Hitchin 
High school, London, where he lived for a period. In 1915 he was graduated 
from the Polytechnic College of Engineering in Oakland. For several months in 
1911 he was with the Hawaiian Dredging Co.
  Dredging operations on the Yukon river, Alaska, with his father, occupied 
him for a time, and in 1917 he came back to Honolulu on his honeymoon with his 
bride, the former Georgia Lardner of Sacramento. With the intervention of the 
World war, he enlisted in the United States Navy, was made chief petty officer 
and later commissioned ensign. When he left the service in 1920 he joined with 
A. S. Davis, Cyril Damon, Francis Brown and others in the organization of the 
Honolulu Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. He was with the firm as treasurer for a 
year, when he disposed of his interests and became superintendent and 
lubricating engineer in Honolulu for the Associated Oil Co.
  Early in 1924 Mr. Parker joined the Consolidated Amusement Co. as manager of 
the film exchange and soon afterward was made treasurer, then secretary and 
assistant general manager. He is a Mason, Shriner, Elk, a member of the 
Beretania Tennis Club and the Outrigger Canoe Club and is interested in 
athletics.


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