Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....White, Thomas Corbet January 8, 1877 - 
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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

THOMAS CORBET WHITE, Business Man and Rancher. A quarter of a century ago 
Thomas C. White began ranching in the Kona district of the Island of Hawaii 
and the history of that district since has been the history of “Uncle Tommy” 
White, who is affectionately known throughout the Territory as the “Mayor of 
Kona.”
  In addition to his ranching activities he acted as Kona agent for the 
Bernice P. Bishop Estate from 1903 until 1923 and has held numerous public 
positions as tax assessor, South Kona, 1905-1907; sub-agent for public lands, 
North and South Kona and Kau, 1908-1915; liquor commissioner, 1917, until the 
enactment of prohibition; chairman, Selective Service Draft Board, West 
Hawaii, 1917-1919; agent for the Board of Health for Kona since 1920, and 
agent for Hawaiian birth certificates since Feb. 25, 1921.
  Mr. White also was the organizer and first president of the Kona Improvement 
Club, is a member of the board of directors of the Hawaii Island Welfare 
Bureau, and at present a member of the Kona Welfare Committee. He was a first 
lieutenant in the Kona company of the National Guard of Hawaii in 1915 and 
1916.
  Born Jan. 8, 1877, at Lahaina, Maui, he is the son of John Corbet and Martha 
J. (Robertson) White. He received his education at St. Louis College, 
Honolulu. He began work as a purser for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. 
in 1893. After five years he became manager of the People’s Express Co., 
Honolulu, resigning in 1900 to become a customs officer at Honolulu, where he 
remained only a year before engaging in his present ranching enterprise at 
Kealakekua. He married Elizabeth K. Roy in Kawanui, North Kona, Jan. 31, 1901. 
Mr. White is a member of Kilauea Lodge No. 330, F. & A. M., and Kilauea 
Council, Boy Scouts of America. He represents the Canada Life Insurance Co., 
and is a member of the firm of White and Cushingham, insurance agents.


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