Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Winne, James Pearse July 27, 1889 - 
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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

JAMES PEARSE WINNE, Business Executive. A member of the fourth generation of 
his family in Hawaii and a direct descendant of Asa and Lucy G. Thurston, who 
came to the islands with the first group of missionaries in 1820, James P. 
Winne, manager of the merchandise department and a director of Alexander & 
Baldwin, Ltd., was born in California, July 27, 1889, and removed to Hawaii 
with his parents when a small child.
  His father was Jacob Pearse Winne, a California pioneer, born in New York 
State, and his mother, Lucy (Taylor) Winne, granddaughter of Lucy G. Thurston 
and a native of Honolulu. Mr. Winne was educated in the Honolulu schools, 
Punahou and Oahu college, and in 1907 took his first position as a 
stenographer and clerk with the Sugar Factors Co., Ltd., where he remained for 
three years, and in 1911 joined Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., as assistant buyer. 
Here he gained a knowledge of plantation needs, field equipment, mill supplies 
and store stocks, and in 1913 he was made buyer, in 1918 assistant manager of 
the merchandise department and manager in 1922. In 1924 Mr. Winne was elected 
a director of the corporation.
  He has been a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners since December, 
1921, is also a member of the maritime affairs committee of the Chamber of 
Commerce, and since 1922 has served as treasurer of the Republican Territorial 
Central Committee. He is a member of the Commercial, Pacific and Oahu Country 
clubs. In 1920 Mr. Winne married Miss Ayleen Campbell, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. S. A. Campbell of Los Angeles, Calif.


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