Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Steere, Frederick E. August 16, 1872 - 
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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

FREDERICK E. STEERE, Real Estate Manager. The lure of a comparatively new, 
undeveloped country where large plantations were in the making, drew Frederick 
E. Steere, manager of the real estate department of the Henry Waterhouse Trust 
Co., Ltd., from Providence, R.I., to Hawaii, in 1898.
  He had been in the real estate and insurance business in Providence for four 
years, and with his capital from this enterprise he hoped to plant coffee on 
the island of Hawaii. After investigating conditions in the industry, he 
decided to plant limes, an unsuccessful venture, and he came to Honolulu to 
work for Lewers & Cooke.
  A brief period was spent with that firm and with Allen & Robinson, and in 
1903 Mr. Steere entered the employ of the Henry Waterhouse Trust Co., Ltd., 
organizing the real estate department, which he has since managed.
  Mr. Steere is vice-president and director of the Henry Waterhouse Trust Co., 
Ltd., vice-president of the Kaimuki Land Co., and is a member of the 
Industrial Accident Board of Oahu and the Oahu Board of Appraisers. He is 
recognized as an expert on Hawaiian real estate values. He is a charter member 
of the Oahu Country Club, one of the founders of the University Club and holds 
memberships in the Commercial Club, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the 
Cammarian Club of Brown University.
  When at Brown University, where he was graduated in 1894, Mr. Steere was a 
member of the baseball team throughout his college course and captained it in 
his senior year.
  He was born is South Scituate, R. I., Aug. 16, 1872, the son of Hardin and 
Almira Melissa (Wilbur) Steere, and a direct descendant of John Steere of 
Ockley, England, who settled in Rhole Island in 1659. In 1898 Mr. Steere 
married Charlotte DS. Iles of Providence, and they have two children, 
Charlotte E., now a student in Pomona College, and Fred E. Steere, Jr.

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