Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Poirier, Jean Marie Phillias January 22, 1869 - 
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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

JEAN MARIE PHILLIAS POIRIER, Hotel Manager. Coming to Hawaii in 1912 to join 
the staff of the Alexander Young Hotel, J. M. Phillias Poirier since 1917 has 
been manager of the Moana Hotel at Waikiki, one of the most famous tourist 
hotels in the world. Becoming chief clerk of the Moana in 1913, he took over 
the management of both the Moana and Seaside Hotels in 1917, but since 1923 
all of his attention has been devoted to the Moana.
  Born at Roxton Falls, Quebec, Jan. 22, 1869, Mr. Poirier is the son of 
Herman and Virginia (Phoeneuf) Poirier. Upon being graduated with high honors 
from the Seminary St. Charles Boromee, Sherbrooke, Canada, he began his 
business career in 1887 as a clerk with La Banque Nationale at Sherbrooke, 
becoming paying and receiving teller the following year of La Banque 
Nationale, Ottawa. Associated with his uncle in the hotel business at Colusa, 
Calif., from 1893 to 1910, Mr. Poirier later engaged in the apartment house 
business at San Francisco for one year. From 1911 to 1912 he was interested in 
real estate in Southern California.
  Mr. Poirier is a Mason, Shriner, Odd Fellow and a member of the Commercial 
Club of Honolulu.


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