Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Spencer, Samuel Mahuka July 18, 1875 - 
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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

SAMUEL MAHUKA SPENCER, Public Official. Many years of public service in 
official positions and in the employ of private enterprises preceded the 
elevation of Samuel M. Spencer to his present position of chairman and 
executive officer of the board of supervisors of the county of Hawaii.
  Born July 18, 1875, at Waimea, Hawaii, he is the son of Ashford and 
Puakalehua (Auwae) Spencer. He was educated in the public school and was 
graduated from Kamehameha School in 1893. He started work as a clerk in the 
territorial land office in 1893 and two years later was appointed deputy 
sheriff at Waimea, Hawaii. In 1897 he became bookkeeper for the Henry 
Waterhouse Trust Co., where he remained until 1902, when he took a similar 
position with the great Parker Ranch at Waimea. After ten years there he re-
entered public life by accepting a position as deputy county clerk for the 
island of Hawaii in 1912. From 1914 to 1915 he was a special auditor for the 
county of Hawaii and in 1915 was elected county auditor, holding that office 
until he was chosen executive officer of the county of Hawaii in 1924. Mr. 
Spencer also is a notary public and has been admitted to practise law in the 
district courts of the Territory. He was appointed a member of the territorial 
Accountancy Commission on May 29, 1925.
  He married Alice Kinimaka in Honolulu on July 5, 1895, and they have five 
children, Jeanette, Harry, Alice, Edith and John Kinohou Spencer. Mr. Spencer 
is a past master, Kilauea Lodge, No. 330, F. & A.M., a Shriner and Forester.


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