Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wilder, Charles Thomas July 12, 1866 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com January 19, 2012, 8:05 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist CHARLES THOMAS WILDER, Tax Assessor. Charles T. Wilder, former Hawaiian consul- general at San Francisco and a yachtsman in the third trans-Pacific race from San Pedro to Honolulu in 1910, has been tax assessor of the First Taxation Division, Hawaii, since 1908. Mr. Wilder was born in Geneva, Ill., July 12, 1866, the son of William Chauncey and Eliza (Scott) Wilder. His parents came to Hawaii when he was a child of three, and he was educated in the public schools of Honolulu and Miami University, Oxford, O. From 1885 to 1893 Mr. Wilder was connected with Wilder & Co., lumber dealers, and from 1893 to 1900 he was in San Francisco as Hawaiian consul- general. For a short period he engaged in the sawmill business in Oregon and, returning to Honolulu in 1903, became deputy assessor in the income tax department in 1904, remaining there until 1908, when he assumed his present office. Mr. Wilder was a member of the Honolulu Rifles from 1885 to 1893, serving in the Revolution which ended the Hawaiian monarchy, a former member of the Hawaii Yacht Club, and is a member of the Pacific, Oahu Country and Commercial Clubs. In 1900 he married Grace Burr of San Francisco and they have one son, Charles Burr Wilder. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/wilder647bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb