Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Thurston, Charles Henry November 21, 1870 - 
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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

CHARLES HENRY THURSTON, Chief Engineer, Honolulu Fire Department. In public 
service for almost forty years, Charles H. Thurston, chief engineer of the 
Honolulu Fire Department, has held that position since 1901. Arriving in 
Honolulu in 1889, he joined the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. as second 
officer on the steamer “Mikahala” and later entered the customs service. Chief 
Thurston joined the fire department as a hoseman on Jan. 1, 1897. During the 
revolutionary period of Hawaiian history in 1893 and 1895 he was a member of 
the army of the Provisional Government and the Citizen’s Guard. Before coming 
to Hawaii, Mr. Thurston followed the sea.
  Born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Nov. 21, 1870, Mr. Thurston is the son of 
William and Laliah (Corning) Thurston. He is a descendant of Robert Thurston 
of Yarmouth who was an officer in the British army during the American 
Revolution and who later settled in Nova Scotia. Receiving his education at 
Yarmouth Seminary, Mr. Thurston went to sea when fourteen years old, sailing 
on ships between the Atlantic Coast and European ports. His youth was crowded 
with adventure and during his first year at sea he was twice rescued from 
shipwrecks. He came to the Pacific Coast in 1889 on a sailing vessel, and in 
the same year came to Hawaii on the barkentine “W. H. Dimond.”
  Mr. Thurston and Helen Catherine Kahanuulani Meek were married in Honolulu, 
June 28, 1899. They have four children, Elizabeth Kilohana, Paul Josiah, Lucy 
Puniwai, and Clara Catherine Thurston. Mr. Thurston is a Mason, Knight 
Templar, Shriner and Knight of Pythias.


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