Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Thayer, Wade Warren September 15, 1873 - 
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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

WADE WARREN THAYER, Business Organizer. East meets West on the financial map 
of the world when daily business is transacted at the International Trust Co., 
Ltd., Honolulu. Establishment of this institution, in which capital of 
American and Japanese stockholders is equally invested, was made possible by 
Wade Warren Thayer, lawyer, businessman and former journalist.
  Mr. Thayer interested leading financiers of Japan and Hawaii in his project 
with the result that the trust company was opened on Jan. 24, 1923. It has 
developed rapidly since its organization. Mr. Thayer is vice-president and 
manager. The list of officers includes many of the most prominent business men 
of Honolulu and Baron K. Sumitomo, financial leader of Japan, is a vice-
president.
  Mr. Thayer began his career in Honolulu in the last years of the past 
century as a journalist, coming here from San Francisco. Having received a law 
degree in Michigan, Mr. Thayer entered practise when he retired from newspaper 
work shortly after his arrival here. While connected with a Honolulu 
newspaper, he worked with Frederick O’Brien, noted author of South Sea stories.
  Mr. Thayer in 1912 was attorney general, serving until 1914, when he was 
made secretary of the Territory, holding this position until 1917.
  Although active in the legal profession up to the time of his organization 
of the International Trust C., Ltd., Mr. Thayer has been identified with other 
business enterprises. He was secretary and treasurer of the Consolidated Soda 
Works from 1905 to 1916, has been secretary of the Thayer Piano Co. since 1910 
and is a director of the Sumitomo Bank of Hawaii, Ltd.
  He has devoted much time to writing and is the author of magazine stories 
and articles dealing with Hawaiian life. He published “A Digest of Decisions 
of the Supreme Court” in 1916.
  Mr. Thayer was born at Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan, Sept. 15, 1873, 
the son of Leonard E. and Fannie (Fletcher) Thayer. He is a descendant of an 
old American family founded by Thomas Thayer of Braintree, Sussex County, 
England, at Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1630. The family was prominent in the 
early history of America.
  He received his early education in the public schools of Fort Wayne, 
Indiana, and at Howe School, Indiana, entering Hobart College in 1891. Later 
he attended the University of Michigan, receiving an A. B. degree in 1895 and 
a law degree in 1896. Before going to the Pacific Coast Mr. Thayer was engaged 
in newspaper work at Salt Lake City, Utah.
  Mr. Thayer has been active in the Boy Scouts organization, having been 
scoutmaster of Troop 5, “The Queen’s Own Scouts,” since 1917. In 1921 he was 
elected Scout Commissioner of Honolulu and still holds that position.
  Mr. Thayer married Rhoda Green in Honolulu, June 30, 1908. He is a Mason, a 
member of the Hawaiian Historical Society, the American Bar Association, 
Hawaiian Bar Association, University, Oahu Country and Outrigger Canoe clubs.


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