Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Peters, Emil Cornelius December 15, 1877 - 
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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

HON. EMIL CORNELIUS PETERS, Chief Justice, Supreme Court. Born in San 
Francisco, Dec. 15, 1877, son of Julius Albert and Marie A. (Hilderbrandt) 
Peters, Emil C. Peters, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, attended 
Stanford University, 1895-7; Hastings College of the Law, 1897-1900, was 
granted his LL.B. degree by the University of California in 1900 and was 
admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of California on April 29, 1899.
  Coming to Honolulu on Oct. 21, 1900, Chief Justice Peters was deputy 
attorney general, 1903-5; attorney general, 1905-7, and judge advocate general 
of the National Guard of Hawaii, 1905-14. He was engaged in private practice 
in San Francisco, 1899-1900, and in Honolulu, 1907-22. From 1918 to 1922 he 
was a member of the law firm of Peters & Smith. He was admitted to practice 
before the Supreme Court of the United States, Nov. 15, 1915.
  On March 29, 1922, Chief Justice Peters was appointed to his present high 
office for a term of four years. On April 4, 1923, he was appointed chairman 
of the Compilation Commission. He is a member of the American Bar Association, 
Bar Association of Hawaii, a Republican, Episcopalian, Mason, Knight Templar, 
Shriner and Elk. He belongs to the Commercial and Oahu Country clubs of 
Honolulu and the Bohemian Club of San Francisco.
  On Sept. 20, 1904, Chief Justice Peters married Mary Mapuana Smith of 
Honolulu. They have three children, Mapuana A., Emil C., Jr., and Elsa H. 
Peters.


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