The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-26
CHIEF JUSTICE ACCEPTS
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spent year in Hastings Law School
San Francisco. Returning to the is
lands he was for two and a half years
an instructor at Oahu College in Greek
mathematics and political economy
After year in General Hartwelfs law
office he returned to Yale, for a course
at it's law school, graduating in 1896
with the degree of LIB. (magna cum
laude). He also won the Jewell prize
for the best examination. The same
time he was elected to the Phi Beta
Kappa society of his alma mater.
| Mr.. Frear afterward spent a summer
| in Europe and then returned to Homo
| lulu, being admitted to the local bar at
once. He practiced by himself for five
months and then went into partnership
with L. A. Thurston.
| His first appearance on the bench
| took place on January l, 1898, when
| Queen Liliuokalani appointed him as
! second judge of the Circuit Court of
| the first judicial circuit. On March Z
| of the same year President Dole of the
| Provisional Government appointed him
as second associate justice of the SUI
preme Court. On January 6, 1896, under
the Republic, President Dole made him
first associate justice. He was acting
chief justice from 1899 to 1900, becoming
chief justice in July of the latter year.
Having filled the office one term he
was reappointed by President Roose-
welt on June IA, 1904. A coincidence
with his acceptance of the governor
ship is the fact that the announcement
of his reappointment as chief justice
-
Washington to Acting Governor Atlxin-
son, just preceding the notification
from Attorney General Knox to Chief
Justice Frear the same day asking him
to qualify at once. On the present
occasion Governor Carter is again on
the mainland and Mr.. Atkinson acting
here in his place.
Judge Frear on August l, 1898, mar
ried Miss Mary Emma Dillingham;,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. 3. f. Dilling-
ham. Judge Frear has been more a
man of affairs, outside of his judicial
functions, than a common impression
abroad might Indicate He has ever
taken an active though unobtrusive in
terest in the means for obtaining and
maintaining good government. Both
at the primaries and the polls he has
performed his civic duties. With Pres
ident Dole Of the Republic he served
on the Hawaiian Commission in 1898 to
frame a system of government for what
was to be the Territory of Hawaii, the
other members being Senator Cullom,
Senator Morgan and Representative
Hitt-the two last-nameti of whom
have passed away. For some years he
on IA nf f1,t1s ton. 1eO aJ
College. He is trustee for the bond
holders of the Oahu Railway &c Land
Co., and a director of B. F.. Dillingham;
& Co., Ltd. Last year he was elected
vice president OF the executive commit
tee of the Central Improvement Club
of Honolulu. Since March, 1904, he has
been the recording secretary of the Ha-
waiian Historical Society. Governor
Dole appointed him as member Of the
Law Compilation Commission in 1908. |
his colleagues being Arthur A Wilder, |
now second associate judge, and A, f. |
Judd. This body had ready for sub
mission to the Legislature on February
IA, 1905, a ponderous volume of more |
than 400 pages which was adopted by |
legislation as the Revised Laws of Ha-
wall. BY addresses before different |
bodies and special contributions to the |
press Judge Frear has enriched the lit
erature pertaining to Hawaii, it's insti-
buttons and civilization One of his |
latest services of this kind was a mon
ograph on the Hawaiian judiciary
which appeared in the New York indie
pendent this year. Judge Frear is a
member of the Pacific and University
clubs.
President Roosevelt does not appoint /
a personal stranger t, himself when /
ne confers the governorship upon Judge /
F'rear. When Mr.. and Mrs. Frear
were visiting Washington in 1901, the
Chief Justice had a set interview with
the President, at which the affairs of
Hawaii were somewhat exhaustively
discussed. On his return Judge Frear
gave an account of his tour on the
mainland to an Advertiser reporter
and the following extract is part of
what he said about his visit to the
White House:
Prior to our visit to New Haven we
stopped at Washington, where Presi-
lent Roosevelt accorded me an inter-
view. He was very much interested in
setting apart a special hour
-or talk. He asked particularly about
The political and industrial conditions
aere, and was very anxious to learn as
much as possible about the islands"