Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Parsons, Charles Francis January 18, 1872 - 
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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

CHARLES FRANCIS PARSONS, Lawyer and Jurist. Judge of the Fourth Circuit Court, 
Hawaii, from 1904 to 1916, Charles F. Parsons, who was appointed United States 
Attorney for Hawaii by President Calvin Coolidge on Jan. 6, 1925, has given 
much public service to Hawaii through a long and distinguished legal career.
  A descendant of a line of forbears engaged in the profession of the law, Mr. 
Parsons is the son of S. de Witt and Frances Howell (White) Parsons, grandson 
of Albert S. White, U. S. senator from Indiana from 1839 to 1845 and U. S. 
district judge in 1864, and a great grandson of Thomas Mann Randolph, the 
third of that notable family from Tuckahoe Manor, Va., Judge Parsons was born 
in Mankato, Minn., Jan. 18, 1872. In 1893 he received his LL.B. degree from 
the University of Michigan, having previously served as a clerk in the war 
department at Washington, D.C.
  He began the practice of law with the firm of Parsons & Wedekind in San 
Diego, Calif., in 1894, and from 1895 to 1898 practiced in Los Angeles. The 
year 1898 marked his removal to Hilo, Hawaii, and the following year he was 
district magistrate of North Hilo. From 1900 to 1904 he was a member of the 
law firm of Smith & Parsons in Hilo, and in 1904 he was appointed by President 
Roosevelt as judge of the Circuit Court, over which he presided for twelve 
years. He was also commissioner of boundaries for the Fourth Circuit from 1906 
to 1911.
  He is a charter member of the University of Michigan chapter of Delta Chi 
fraternity, a member of the Board of Trustees, Hilo Public Library; past 
exalted ruler of Hilo Lodge No. 759, B.P.O.E., and a member of the University 
Club of Honolulu, Hilo Yacht Club, Hawaiian Society, Sons of the American 
Revolution; American Academy Political and Social Science, American Bar 
Association and National Council of the National Economic League. He was a 
member of and counsel for the Island of Hawaii Vigilance Corps of the American 
Defense Society in 1917 and 1918, associated member of the legal advisory 
board, Fourth Judicial Circuit, in 1918, and counsel for the chairman of the 
home service committee, Hawaii chapter of the American Red Cross.


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