Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Sutton, Edwin White September 15, 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

EDWIN WHITE SUTTON, Business Executive. Beginning his career as a practising 
attorney shortly after his arrival here in 1906, Edwin White Sutton became 
interested in business, and is now vice-president and manager of the Bishop 
Trust Co., Ltd., one of the soundest financial concerns in Hawaii.
  He has held his present office with the Bishop Trust Co. since Jan., 1917, 
during which period the company has more than kept pace with the growth of 
Honolulu. In 1920 the Guardian Trust Co. was consolidated with the Bishop 
Trust Co., Ltd., and the capital increased to $500,000. In 1923 an increase of 
capital to $1,000,000 was authorized and the firm is now jointly constructing 
with the Bank of Bishop & Co., Ltd., a splendid new building to house the two 
corporations.
  Mr. Sutton was graduated from the law department of the University of 
Michigan in 1904 and after a brief period in Grand Rapids came to Honolulu in 
1906 with the late William L. Whitney, and began the practise of law here. In 
1907 he was appointed deputy attorney general of the Territory, serving under 
E. C. Peters and C. R. Hemenway until 1912 when he returned to private 
practise with the law firm of Smith, Warren and Hemenway. The firm name became 
Smith, Warren, Hemenway and Sutton the following year.
  In 1917 Mr. Sutton went to the Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., as vice president and 
manager. He is also president of the Guardian Building and Loan Association, 
formed in 1923 with nine stockholders, and which now has 120 stockholders and 
a capital in excess of $150,000.
  At the beginning of the World War Mr. Sutton was a member of the 1st 
Company, Coast Artillery, National Guard of Hawaii. In 1919 he was 
commissioned a major and served as judge advocate of the National Guard. He is 
a past director and president of the Oahu Country Club, past secretary of the 
University Club, secretary of the Hawaii Polo and Racing Club, director and 
former treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce and has been treasurer of the Bar 
Association of Hawaii from 1916 to date. He is a trustee of the Hilo Boarding 
School, and a trustee and treasurer of the Hawaiian Academy of Design.
  Mr. Sutton was born in Hartford, Mich., Sept. 15, 1882, the son of Warner P. 
Sutton and Lois May (Andrus) Sutton. He was educated at Oberlin Academy, and 
received his LL.B. degree from the law department of the University of 
Michigan. In 1908 he married Alice Benton Carpenter in Cleveland, Ohio, and 
their children are Edwin White, Jr., Richard Carpenter and Henry Sutton.


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