Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Weaver, Philip L.  April 10, 1868 - 
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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

PHILIP L. WEAVER, Attorney. Born in France, but a descendant of missionaries 
who voyaged to the Hawaiian Islands in 1835, Philip L. Weaver came to Hawaii 
in 1897 to practise law and has become an authority on land registration 
during the past thirty years, seven of which were spent as a member of the 
Land Court.
  Admitted to practise before the Supreme Court of California in 1895, he was 
in San Francisco until 1897, when he came to Honolulu and was associated with 
W. R. Castle until 1903. In the latter year he was appointed assistant to the 
territorial attorney general. He wrote the Land Registration Act and was 
instrumental in causing the legislature to adopt it as law, becoming judge of 
the Land Court after he had spent some time in Boston studying the procedure 
of similar tribunals.
  Judge Weaver resigned from the Land Court in 1910 to re-enter private 
practise, but was called back into public service in 1912 as deputy city and 
county attorney, Honolulu. He resigned in 1913 and removed to his present 
residence, Wailuku, Maui, in 1922. He is an occasional contributor of 
narrative and short stories to newspapers and magazines and has been active 
among the amateur photographers of the islands, having won three first prizes 
in the first Territorial Fair in 1918. He married Agnes Crary of San 
Francisco, a graduate of the University of California, class of ’92, in 
Honolulu, May 23, 1899, and they have two children, Mary Claire, now Mrs. 
Robert D. Maclay, and Ida Eleanor Weaver.
  The son of Philip Liscum and Helen (Armstrong) Weaver, he was born in Paris, 
April 10, 1868. His father was an American, resident of San Francisco, who was 
traveling abroad at the time, and his mother was a daughter of Richard 
Armstrong, one of the early missionaries to Hawaii, who took a prominent part 
in the civic and religious activities of the Kingdom. Mr. Weaver was educated 
in the primary schools of San Francisco, University of California, Ph.B., 
1891, and at Hastings College of Law, San Francisco. He has been a trustee, 
Library of Hawaii since its organization, serving as secretary, 1915-1916. He 
is a member and former president of the Outrigger Canoe Club and a member of 
the Commercial Club of Honolulu, and of the Maui Chamber of Commerce and Golf 
Club.


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