Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Peterson, Charles Frederick January 19, 1870 - 
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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 FREDERICK PETERSON, Lawyer. Member of a kamaaina family, Charles F. 
Peterson, a native of Honolulu has practiced law in the city of his birth for 
almost thirty years of his legal career.
  Before entering Yale University Mr. Peterson was a clerk in the Interior 
Department of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1889 and in the early 90’s held similar 
positions in the circuit and supreme courts of the Kingdom. In 1893 he was 
secretary of the Annexation Commission which went to Washington, D.C., in the 
interests of the new Hawaiian government immediately after the overthrow of 
Queen Liliuokalani’s government. Upon his return from college he served as 
magistrate of the district court in 1897, entering private practice shortly 
afterwards.
  Born in Honolulu, Jan. 19, 1870, Mr. Peterson is the son of I. B. and 
Henrietta C. (Austin) Peterson, his father having come to Hawaii in the 60’s 
as an officer on a whaling ship from New Bedford, Mass. For many years Mr. 
Peterson’s father was associated with the firm of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. 
Receiving his early education at the old Fort Street school, Charles F. 
Peterson entered Yale Law school in 1895, receiving his B. L. degree two years 
later.
  He married Caroline E. Wright in Honolulu, June 15, 1898. They have four 
children, Frederick J., Muriel K., Edwin W. and Robert H. Peterson. Mr. 
Peterson is a member of the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors and the 
Hawaiian Civic Club.


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