Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Warren, John Trenholm January 27, 1879 - 
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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

JOHN TRENHOLM WARREN, Merchant. A business success in Hawaii that began with a 
monthly salary of $70 a quarter of a century ago and has since progressed to 
mercantile and civic leadership, is written in the career of John T. Warren, 
sole owner and manager of the Honolulu Photo Supply Co. for the past twenty 
years.
  Mr. Warren arrived in the Territory on March 15, 1899, on the steamer 
Australia, having been persuaded to leave his position as a salesman in a 
photographic supply store in San Francisco by letters written him by a former 
schoolmate who was in Hawaii. He accepted an offer to start a photographic 
supply store in Honolulu for C. E. LeMunyon. In January of the next year he 
resigned to become assistant superintendent of the Punchbowl relief camp for 
plague refugees. Three months later he purchased the interests of C. E. 
LeMunyon and became a partner of F. J. Church under the name of the Honolulu 
Photo Supply Co. On Jan. 8, 1904, he acquired the stock of F. J. Church and 
has since been sole owner and manager of the business, the largest of its kind 
in Hawaii.
  Mr. Warren was secretary of the Honolulu Merchants’ Association at the time 
it was amalgamated with the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce. He has served as 
director of the Chamber of Commerce for three terms, is a director and vice-
president of the Pond Co., was president of the Territorial Securities Co., 
Ltd., and director of the Mutual Investment Co., Ltd., for one term. He also 
was treasurer of the Rotary Club of Honolulu as well as a director for two 
years, director of the Honolulu Auto Club for four years and has served that 
organization as president since 1920. He is a member of the Country, 
Commercial, Ad, Auto and Rotary Clubs. For many years he has been a councilor 
of Central Union Church and a member of the Central Y.M.C.A. Committee of 
Management and of its House Committee, having served as chairman of the latter 
for two years.
  Mr. Warren married Grace H. Tower of Pasadena, well known in the newspaper 
and magazine world, on March 1, 1909. They have two children, Katharine Tower 
and Marion Farrar. Mrs. Warren is a member of the League of American Pen Women 
(Washington, D.C.) and Southern California Women’s Press Club and is an 
honorary member of the Theta Sigma Phi, national honor journalistic sorority.
  Mr. Warren was born in San Francisco on Jan. 27, 1879, the son of John 
Bowles and Carrie Mary Warren (nee Schafer). He was graduated from the 
Berkeley High School in 1896.


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