Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Petrie, Thomas Herbert 
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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

THOMAS HERBERT PETRIE, Corporation Official. Entering the employ of Castle & 
Cooke, Ltd., on Feb. 13, 1893, when he was a boy of 16, Thomas H. Petrie has 
remained with that firm continuously for more than thirty years. Rising 
through various positions, he was appointed secretary of the corporation in 
1906 and was made an active vice-president in 1924.
  Aside from his business responsibilities, Mr. Petrie has been prominent in 
politics and fraternal work, and during the Hawaiian Revolution saw military 
service, witnessing the fall of the Monarchy, the birth of the Republic and, 
finally, the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. In the same year that 
he began work for Castle & Cooke, Ltd., 1893, Mr. Petrie became a member of 
the National Guard, serving until 1899, when he retired with the rank of 
captain.
  Always an active member of the Republican party, he has served as a member 
of the House of Representatives of the Territorial Legislature in the sessions 
of 1917, 1923 and 1925. In his legislative work he has served on the Finance 
committee, committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Promotion and Immigration, and 
the committee on Civil Service, Municipal and County Affairs.
  Mr. Petrie was born in San Francisco, but came to Honolulu at an early age, 
receiving his education in the public schools of this city. He married Eva 
MacGregor on Dec. 12, 1910, and their children are Elspeth and Arneil Petrie. 
Mr. Petrie is a member of the Commercial and Oahu Country clubs, Excelsior 
Lodge, No. 1,  I.O.O.F.; a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner and is 
Past Master and Treasurer of Honolulu Lodge, No. 409, F. & A.M.


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