Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Smith, Henry November 19, 1854 - 
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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 SMITH, Chief Clerk of the Circuit Court. To Henry Smith, chief clerk and 
cashier of the Circuit Court, first judicial circuit, belongs the distinction 
of being the oldest official in the Judiciary building. For forty-five years 
Mr. Smith has served the Hawaiian government through its various phases, 
beginning with the Monarchy and passing through the Provisional Government, 
Republic and territorial government.
  At the early age of 13 he began work in the old printing office of the 
weekly Pacific-Commercial Advertiser, where, as a boy, he took his place 
beside grown men and had to stand on a box to reach the highest type boxes. He 
and William G. Brash of Honolulu are the only living members of that group of 
early typesetters. Beginning in 1867 with H. M. Whitney, he worked as a 
printer for the next thirteen years with Black & Auld, Henry L. Sheldon, James 
H. Black, Walter Murray Gibson and other early day publishers.
  On account of his health he gave up the printing trade in 1880, becoming 
assistant to the late John A. Hassinger, then chief clerk of the interior 
department. In 1883 Mr. Smith resigned to accept the position of deputy clerk 
of the Supreme Court. Six years later he was appointed clerk of the Supreme 
Court, which is virtually his position today. However, with the reorganization 
of the judiciary department in 1892, Mr. Smith’s designation became that of 
clerk of the judiciary department, and with the legislative enactment of 1911, 
the office of clerk of the judiciary department was abolished, and the present 
title of chief clerk and cashier of the Circuit Court for the first judicial 
circuit took its place.
  For nineteen years prior to 1904 Mr. Smith was treasurer of the board of 
trustees of the Anglican Church in Hawaii, now the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and from 1884 to 1893, in succession to the late Charles T. Gulick, 
who was then Minister of the Interior in the Gibson cabinet, he was treasurer 
of the old Honolulu volunteer fire department, having been elected at five 
successive elections. He is now a member of the Hawaiian congregation of St. 
Andrew’s Cathedral, a Mason and a Knight of Pythias.
  Mr. Smith was born in Honolulu on Nov. 19, 1854, the son of Henry and Mele 
(Naokaawa) Smith. He attended St. Albans School, then conducted by the Rev. 
George Mason and later by Rev. Edmund Ibbotson, two pioneer missionaries of 
the Anglican Church. He also attended the public schools of Hanalei, Kauai, 
for a period. In 1876 he married Maria Marble and they had eight children, 
Mrs. Mapuana Peters, Mrs. Helen C. Gedge, Mrs. Daisy B. P. Clarke, Mrs. Maria 
Leinaala Clarke, Mrs. Henrietta Mann, Miss Hilda Smith, Francis H. (Alapaki) 
Smith, deputy assessor of Ewa and Waianae districts, and Elsie K. Smith 
(deceased).

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