Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Smoot, Perry Myers April 22, 1882 - 
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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

PERRY MYERS SMOOT, Adjutant-General. More than a decade of service in the 
armed forces of the United States prefaced the appointment of Co. P. M. Smoot 
to be adjutant-general of the Territory of Hawaii in 1923.
  Born in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 1882, he is the son of Benjamin 
Stoddard and Mary (Gideon) Smoot. After his preliminary education in the 
District of Columbia public schools he attended Columbian University, now 
George Washington University.
  Col. Smoot came to the islands on Nov. 15, 1912, to accept the position of 
manager of the tire and accessory department of the Associated Garage, Ltd., 
which was purchased later by the Schuman Carriage Co. He remained with the 
latter concern as manager of the tire and accessory departments until 
December, 1915, when he organized Smoot and Steinhauser, Ltd., becoming 
president and manager of this concern, which became the Pond Co. in 1918. 
After three and a half years of service as captain in the United States army 
during the World War period and later, Col. Smoot returned to Hawaii and was 
associated with Catton, Neill & Co., until Aug. 23, 1923, when he became 
adjutant-general.
  From Aug. 25, 1908, to Feb. 4, 1913, Col. Smoot was an ensign in the United 
States Naval Reserve Force, shifting to the land forces in the latter year and 
becoming a first lieutenant in the Hawaiian National Guard. He served as 
captain of infantry, U.S.A., from April 28, 1917, to Oct. 29, 1920, and as a 
major of infantry, Reserve Corps, and H.N.G., from Dec. 1, 1921 to Sept. 19, 
1923. On the next day he was promoted to colonel, and accepted the position of 
adjutant general for the territory.
  Col. Smoot is an 18th degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the 
Sojourners’ Masonic Club of Honolulu and Honolulu Post, American Legion. He 
married Mary Henry on Nov. 29, 1905, and they have four children, Christine 
K., Richard, John P., and Robert M. Smoot.

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