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Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Aldrich, William Arnold December 13, 1892 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WILLIAM ARNOLD ALDRICH, Insurance Manager. Grandson of William Arnold Aldrich, 
pioneer Honolulu financier and one of the founders of what is now the Bank of 
Bishop & Co., Ltd., and son of William Holt Aldrich, ardent royalist and 
supporter of the Hawaiian monarchy, William A. Aldrich was born in Honolulu on 
Dec. 13, 1892. His mother is Minnie (Brown) Aldrich, intimate associate for 
many years of the Princess Bernice Pauahi Paki Bishop.
  Mr. Aldrich was educated at the Kamehameha School, St. Louis College, 
Hitchcock Military Academy and Christ Church College, Oxford, England, where 
he received his B.S. degree in 1914. Returning to Honolulu he became connected 
with the old Associated Garage, operated by E. O. Hall & Son., Ltd., as 
manager of the accessory department. The following year he went to San 
Francisco, and for the next three years worked as a salesman for the 
automobile firms of H. O. Harrison & Co., and the Willys-Overland Co.
  Called into World War service in 1917, Mr. Aldrich was commissioned an 
ensign in the naval communication service, United States Navy stationed at 
Goat Island, San Francisco, and Pearl Harbor. After the war he returned to the 
Harrison automobile concern, and later was assistant sales manager of the 
Willys-Overland Co. in San Francisco for three years. In 1922 he left the 
automobile business, and worked as a salesman for the San Francisco firm of 
George Hind & Co., real estate and insurance. In 1924 he came home to Honolulu 
and took his present position as manager of the finance and insurance 
department of P. E. R. Strauch.
  Interested in speed-boating, Mr. Aldrich organized the Honolulu Athletic and 
Motor Boat Club, to create interest in motor boating in the Territory. He is 
now manager of the club, which expects soon to erect a clubhouse at Kewalo 
basin and he is the owner of a speedy motor boat, the “Hooheno.” He is also 
the author of a bill introduced in the territorial legislature of 1925, 
providing for the registration of motor vehicles for the complete protection 
of automobile owners.
  In 1916 Mr. Aldrich married Verona Deussing of San Francisco, and they have 
three children, William A., Jr., Henry Hunter and Vernon Dickens Aldrich. Mr. 
Aldrich is a member of the Phi Sigma academic fraternity, Honolulu Chamber of 
Commerce and the Olympic Club of San Francisco.
  Mr. Aldrich’s grandfather, William Arnold Aldrich, was born in Boston and 
was a business promoter and financier in San Francisco and the bay region and 
one of the founders of the Oakland Bank of Savings in Oakland, Calif., before 
coming to Hawaii. Here he entered the mercantile business with the late 
Charles Reed Bishop, financier and philanthropist, and for five years this 
business was carried on successfully. In 1858 Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Bishop 
formed the firm of Aldrich & Bishop, which later became the Bank of Bishop and 
is now incorporated as the Bank of Bishop & Co., Ltd. Mr. Aldrich died in 
1891, leaving four children, William Holt Aldrich, George Albert Aldrich, 
Annie Aldrich Barton and Helen Aldrich Dunning. William Holt Aldrich, father 
of the subject of this sketch, was born in Honolulu and reared in California 
by Mrs. Mills, founder and president of Mills College in Oakland, Calif. In 
1884 he married Minnie Brown of Honolulu and upon his death he was survived by 
his widow and five children, William Arnold Aldrich, Swinton Dunning Aldrich, 
an engineer with the territorial public works department; Mrs. Norman Greig of 
San Mateo, Mrs. Robert D. King of Honolulu and Mrs. Gottfried Herbst of 
Dresden, Germany.


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