Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Spalding, Philip E. November 5, 1889 - 
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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

PHILIP E. SPALDING, Department Manager. Coming to Honolulu in 1912 in 
association with his brother, Walter, with a contract for the construction of 
the marine barracks at Pearl Harbor, Philip E. Spalding, now manager of the 
merchandise department of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., has since made Hawaii his 
home. Their first work completed, the Spaldings branched into a general 
contracting business and built the United States naval hospital and officers’ 
quarters at Pearl Harbor, the Honolulu Iron Works and Star-Bulletin office, 
among other work.
  With the intervention of the World War, Mr. Spalding entered the army as 
captain of the Machine Gun Company of the 1st Regiment, Hawaiian National 
Guard, and served at the Hawaiian Department headquarters until he was 
honorably discharged in May, 1919, when he joined Lewers & Cooke, Ltd. He 
resigned as vice-president of that firm in October, 1924, to take his present 
position with C. Brewer & Co., Ltd.
  Mr. Spalding is a director of Lewers & Cooke, the American Sugar Co. and the 
Pacific Trust Co., Ltd. He is also a trustee of Leahi Home, Queen’s Hospital, 
Palama Settlement, a member of the Republican county committee, and has served 
on the City Planning Commission since 1918. He is a member of the University, 
Oahu Country, Commercial and Hawaii Polo and Racing Clubs.
  Born in Minneapolis, Nov. 5, 1889, Mr. Spalding is the son of A. W. and Anna 
(Talbot) Spalding. His father was a prominent architect in Minneapolis and 
later in Seattle. Mr. Spalding was educated in the schools of Minneapolis and 
Seattle and attended Stanford University for two years, terminating his 
college course to come to Hawaii.
  Mr. Spalding married Alice Cooke, daughter of the late C. M. Cooke, in 
Honolulu in 1917 and they have two children, Philip E., Jr., and Charles C. 
Spalding.

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