Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Prosser, Mason Fay April 17, 1868 - 
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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

MASON FAY PROSSER, Attorney. Choosing Hawaii as his future home and the 
community in which he would build his career, Mason F. Prosser came to Hawaii 
in 1898 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He has served in a 
number of public offices and with the Red Cross during the World war.
  In 1905 Mr. Prosser was made assistant attorney general and served as deputy 
attorney general from 1906 to 1907. He became a law partner of W. A. Kinney, 
B. L. Marx and R. B. Anderson in 1907 and since 1909 has been associated with 
Frear, Prosser, Anderson and Marx, one of the most prominent law firms of the 
Territory.
  Mr. Prosser was appointed commissioner of public instruction in 1909, 
assisting in this capacity in the development of the school system of the 
Territory.
  During the World War, with the rank of major and deputy commissioner of the 
American Red Cross, he served as representative and liaison officer at 
American General Headquarters in France from 1917 to 1918. He is chairman and 
a charter member of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and a national 
representative of its ways and means committee.
  Born in Buffalo, N.Y., April 17, 1868, the son of Henry Wilbur and Anna 
(Fay) Prosser, Mr. Prosser was educated in the public and high schools of 
Brooklyn, N.Y. He later attended Columbia Law School in New York City and was 
admitted to the New York bar, May 31, 1890. He went to San Francisco in 1898, 
intending to remain there, but was soon induced to come to Honolulu.
  Mr. Prosser married Blanche Thatcher in Los Angeles, Calif., April 21, 1902. 
He is a member of the University, Oahu Country and Hawaii Racing and Polo 
Clubs, is an Elk and a member of the Hawaiian Historical Society. For years he 
has been prominent in the Republican party.


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