Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wishard, Leslie Winstead July 4, 1894 - 
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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

LESLIE WINSTEAD WISHARD, Planter and Legislator. Abandoning the practise of 
law in 1919, Leslie W. Wishard entered the sugar industry of the Territory and 
became manager of the Union Mill Co., Kohala, Hawaii, his present position.
  Born at Lihue, Kauai, July 4, 1894, he is the son of Henry Dickerson and 
Agnes (Winstead) Wishard. He was educated at Oahu College, 1913; University of 
Michigan, A.B., 1916; University of Chicago, one semester, and Harvard Law 
School, 1916-1917 and 1919.
  He enlisted in the army at Boston, Mass., April 17, 1917, and was assigned 
to the First Reserve Officers’ Training Camp, Presidio, San Francisco; School 
of Military Aeronautics, University of California, and received flying 
instruction at Rockwell Field, San Diego, where he was commissioned a second 
lieutenant in the aviation corps. He was a flying instructor at Gerstner 
Field, La., and Park Field, Tenn. He passed his examinations for promotion to 
first lieutenant, Nov. 9, 1918, and was discharged in December, 1918, after 
the armistice.
  Mr. Wishard returned to Hawaii and began work as a bookkeeper for the Union 
Mill Co. He spent the summer of 1919 in the law offices of Frear, Prosser, 
Anderson & Marx, Honolulu, but left there when he was appointed manager of the 
Union Mill Co., in December, 1919. He was elected a representative to the 1925 
session of the territorial legislature from the Second Representative 
District, West Hawaii, and served as chairman of the important finance 
committee.
  Mr. Wishard is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Aero Club of 
America, U. S. Air Service Association, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ 
Association, Harvard Club of Hawaii, and University Club of Honolulu.


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