Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Peck, L. Tenney February 25, 1860 - 
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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

L. TENNEY PECK, Banker. Banker, business executive and public spirited citizen 
is L. Tenney Peck, president of the First National Bank of Hawaii, the First 
American Savings and Trust Co., and chairman of the board of the Honolulu 
Rapid Transit Co.
  Early in his career Mr. Peck was employed in the land business and later 
became interested with others in the founding of the town of Kenova, a 
railroad center of West Virginia. He named the town and served as manager of 
the Kenova Association, besides developing an addition to Ironton, Ohio, 
through the 90’s. During this period he served as councilman, as member of the 
county board of health and was active in the Republican party, as a delegate 
to and chairman of conventions, and as a campaign speaker.
  While engaged in the upbuilding of Kenova he came to Hawaii in 1900 on a 
pleasure trip, was asked to take charge of the finances of the newly organized 
rapid transit company and accepted that position the following year.
  Since that time he has been identified with the progress of Honolulu and has 
aided in the development of various industrial concerns. Since 1901 he has 
been treasurer of the S. N. Castle Estate, Ltd., and a trustee of the Mary 
Castle Trust. He was president of the Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Co. for 
twenty years and in 1905 went to the First National Bank as cashier, later 
becoming vice-president, and has served as president since 1915. The bank has 
expanded rapidly and in 1924-5 erected a new home at King and Bishop streets, 
one of the finest and most modern buildings in Honolulu.
  Mr. Peck has served on the directorates of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., and 
Castle & Cooke, Ltd., and for seventeen years was auditor of the latter 
corporation.
  In the line of public service, Mr. Peck has served on the Territorial Tax 
Commission, is chairman of the Seaman’s Institute of St. Elizabeth’s 
Settlement, organizer and president of the Philharmonic Society of Honolulu, a 
trustee of the Y.M.C.A. and a former trustee of the Queen’s Hospital. He has 
always been an active church worker and is a warden and treasurer of St. 
Andrew’s Cathedral parish and treasurer of the diocese. In 1907 he was a 
delegate to the Episcopal general convention in Richmond, Va. During the World 
war Mr. Peck was chairman of the central committee for Hawaii in the Liberty 
loan campaigns.
  He has been a vice-president for Hawaii of the American Bankers’ 
Association, is a past master of the Kenova Masonic lodge, treasurer and 
director of the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association, and is a member of the 
Social Science Association and the Pacific, Commercial, Oahu Country, Ad and 
Rotary clubs of Honolulu, serving the last named as president for one term.
  Mr. Peck was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 25, 1860, the son of Alfred 
Phineas and Harriet Newell (Tenney) Peck. His father, a New York business man, 
was then a member of Old Trinity Church quartet choir of New York City. His 
great-grandfather, Captain Phineas Peck of Norwich, Conn., was an officer in 
the American Revolution and served at the battle of Saratoga. His maternal 
great-grandfather, Jesse Tenney, served at the battle of Bennington.
  Mr. Peck was educated in the Brooklyn public and private schools, attended 
the Northwestern College at Watertown, Wis., and was graduated from the 
Milwaukee High school. He later taught in the high and ward schools and at the 
National Teachers’ Seminary of Milwaukee.
  In 1901 he married Elizabeth Locke of Glens Falls, N.Y., and they have one 
son, Newton Tenney Peck, who was graduated from Yale in 1924, later taking a 
post-graduate course at Harvard.


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