Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wall, Arthur Frederick October 28, 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

ARTHUR FREDERICK WALL, Business Man. Established in business since 1913, 
Arthur Wall, president and manager of Wall & Dougherty, jewelers, importers 
and diamond merchants, has been a part of the commercial and cultural 
development of Honolulu for many years. Interested especially in music, Mr. 
Wall is an accomplished musician and as chairman of the Washington Day 
carnival committee in 1910 and 1911 was instrumental in staging a unique 
production of the opera “Pinafore,” presented on a ship docked in Honolulu 
harbor. The performance was repeated in 1923, again directed by Mr. Wall, for 
Aloha Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
  An active member of the Shrine and a past potentate of Aloha Temple, Mr. 
Wall attended the national convention at Washington in 1923, and was spokesman 
for the Hawaiian delegation which conferred an honorary membership in the 
Honolulu Temple upon the late President Warren G. Harding. Mr. Wall has been 
active in civic promotion projects and in the development of acquatic sports, 
having been a member of the Myrtle Boat Club for thirty-five years. He was 
formerly a member of the City Planning Commission.
  Born in Santa Barbara, Calif., Oct. 28, 1870, Mr. Wall is the son of Charles 
J. and Elizabeth (Evans) Wall. He came to Hawaii in 1879 to join his father, 
then the architect in charge of plans for Iolani Palace, now the capitol 
building of the Territory. The elder Wall was one of the most distinguished 
builders of his time in Honolulu, for in addition to the palace he designed 
and supervised the construction of the C. M. Cooke residence on Beretania 
street, Mrs. Victoria Ward’s residence at the “Old Plantation,” Lunalilo Home, 
the Chinese church on Fort street and the Royal Hawaiian Opera House and 
Kamaukapile Church, the latter two structures having since been destroyed by 
fire.
  Arthur F. Wall attended the public schools of Honolulu and, entering the 
business field, was employed by H. F. Wichman & Co., jewelers, rising through 
various positions to the post of general manager, which he resigned in 1913 to 
engage in business for himself.
  Mr. Wall and Harriet Lewers, only daughter of the late Robert Lewers, were 
married in Honolulu, Oct. 28, 1901. They have two children, Catherine Lewers 
and Robert Lewers Wall. Mr. Wall is a Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner and a 
member of the Commercial, Oahu Country, Ad and Myrtle Boat clubs and the 
Honolulu Chamber of Commerce.


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