Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Reed, James Arthur June 25, 1886 - 
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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

JAMES ARTHUR REED, Marble and Tile Contractor. Sent to Hawaii in 1915 by the 
Vermont Marble Co. of San Francisco to fulfill its contract for the erection 
of the federal building in Hilo and for the stone work on the Metropolitan 
Market in Honolulu, James A. Reed superintended that work, and in 1916 went 
into the marble and tile contracting business for himself in Honolulu. His is 
now one of the only two firms engaged in this business in the Territory, and 
Mr. Reed has handled the marble and tile work on many of the largest buildings 
in Honolulu, including the federal building, Punahou tank, Castle & Cooke, 
Mutual Telephone, S. M. Damon and First National Bank buildings and the Oahu 
Railway and Land Co., Ltd., depot.
  Mr. Reed in 1900 began work as a draughtsman for Keller & Brown in Fort 
Wayne, Ind., and two years later removed to Dallas, Texas, to be 
superintendent of the Reed Stone Co., established by his father. After four 
years with his father, he superintended the stone construction on the General 
Palmer mansion in the “Garden of the Gods,” Colorado Springs, Colo., and in 
1905 he was engaged on the construction of the First National Bank in 
Cheyenne, Wyo. For three years he was foreman with the McGilvray Stone Co. in 
San Francisco, Calif., and for more than a year investigated quarries in 
Mexico for large private interests. Returning to California, he joined with C. 
L. Cummings in the establishment of a marble and tile business in Oakland, 
where he remained until he came to Hawaii.
  Born in Toledo, O., on June 25, 1886, Mr. Reed is the son of John Thomas and 
Madeline (Butler) Reed. He attended the public schools of Toledo and Notre 
Dame Preparatory School in South Bend, Ind. In 1908 he married Mary Hagy of 
Alameda, Calif., and they have two children, Ralph and Marjorie Reed. Mr. Reed 
is an Elk.


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