Department of Defense

Born April 22^nd 1882, Washington D.C.

Died December 31^st 1959 Wilmington, Delaware

Educated in the Washington public schools in Columbian (now George Washington) University. He became a salesman and arrived in Hawaii in November 1912 to manage an automotive parts and tire business. He worked for Schuman Carriage Company, Kahuku Plantation and as an independent manufacturers agent. He served with the US Naval Reserve and later with the National Guard of Hawaii. During World War I he served as a Captain U.S. infantry from April 1917 to October 1920.

He was appointed mutant general on August 25^th 1923 by Governor Farrington. As such he supervised the federalization of the Guard in 1940 and organized the Territorial Guard in December of 1941. In the meantime in December 1940 he was appointed Territorial Select Service Director and he could not hold both positions he was relieved as Commander of the Territorial Guard. He was released as Selective Service Director in February 1944 and from active status in the Army on August 2^nd 1945. He assumed his office of Adjutant General, but apparently without the authorization of Governor Stainback. No funds were available and the Guard had not been reactivated, but he claimed his right to his former position by federal law. In August 1946 the Territory finally paid him for one year service and he retired.

He moved to the mainland after his retirement and died in a veteransʻ hospital in Delaware.

Last updated October 1965