Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wilder, Samuel Gardner January 12, 1866 - 
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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

SAMUEL GARDNER WILDER, Trust Company Official. Samuel Gardner Wilder, son of 
Samuel Gardner and Elizabeth Kinau (Judd) Wilder, built his career in Hawaii, 
the country of his birth. As a young man, during the monarchy and the Republic 
of Hawaii, Mr. Wilder was associated with the Wilder Steamship Co., founded by 
his father, until the Wilder shipping interests were sold, later becoming the 
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co.
  Mr. Wilder was born at Kualoa, Oahu, where his father had established a 
sugar mill, on Jan. 12, 1866. He received his education at the former school 
of Martha Chamberlain in Honolulu, attending that institution until 1875, and 
then going to St. Alban’s School, 1877; Mr. Beckwith’s School, 1878, and 
Punahou School, 1879-80. Leaving Honolulu in 1881, Mr. Wilder went to Boston, 
where he studied under a tutor until 1883.
  Returning to Hawaii, he started his business career with the Wilder 
Steamship Co. in 1885. After the death of his uncle, W. C. Wilder, he became 
president and manager of Wilder & Co., Ltd., which was later sold to Lewers & 
Cooke, Ltd. Mr. Wilder has been connected with the Estate of S. G. Wilder 
since 1894, and in 1914 entered the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd., taking charge of 
the safe deposit vaults. In 1924 he was assistant secretary and assistant 
custodian of the securities vault.
  During the monarchy, Mr. Wilder was a member of the Honolulu Rifles. In 1898 
he was a member of the house of representatives. He is credited with having 
brought the first Italian honey bees to the Hawaiian Islands, importing hives 
in 1880.
  Mr. Wilder married Molly Alatau Atkinson, daughter of the late Alatau T. 
Atkinson, in Honolulu, July 20, 1896. They have four children, Helen Kinau, 
Samuel Gardner, Alatau T. and Peggy Wilder.
  Mr. Wilder is a charter member of the Oahu Country Club and Sons of Hawaii.


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