Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Schwartz, Henry Butler 
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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

HENRY BUTLER SCHWARTZ, Educator. For twenty-two years a clergyman and 
educational missionary in Japan, Henry B. Schwartz became head of the English 
department of the College of the Pacific at San Jose, Calif., in 1915, came to 
Hawaii five years later as field secretary for Japanese work under the 
Methodist Mission and in 1923 accepted his present position as territorial 
supervisor for foreign language schools, a most important and responsible post 
because of the racial complexion of Hawaii’s population. Mr. Schwartz speaks 
Japanese fluently and is an authority on the affairs and problems of Japan.
  From 1887 to 1893 he was a minister in the Methodist churches of Quincy and 
Newburyport, Mass., and from 1893 to 1915 he held various missionary and 
educational posts in Japan.
  Born in Cincinnati, O., Mr. Schwartz is the son of Leonard and Sarah (Adams) 
Schwartz. He was educated in the public schools of Ohio, Ohio National Normal, 
Ohio Wesleyan College and Boston University. In 1887 he married Mary E. 
Frazier, and they have three children, William Leonard, instructor in the 
romance languages department of Stanford University; Anna Dale, head of the 
art department of McKinley High School, and Laura Virginia Schwartz, Ph.D., 
instructor in the English department, University of Hawaii.
  Mr. Schwartz is a member of the Delta Tau Delta national fraternity and Phi 
Beta Kappa, honor society; life member, Asiatic Society of Japan; Scottish 
Rite Mason, 32nd degree, K. C. C. H.; University, Pan-Pacific and Ad Clubs.


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