page_title: Joseph Ballard Atherton
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Ballard Atherton / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mullet Wrapped in Ti Leaves by Juliette Montague Cooke Atherton
context_page_description: Joseph Ballard Atherton was a Honolulu businessman and a former president of Castle & Cooke. He was a member of the Annexation group, which overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was the founder of Honolulu YMCA. Atherton was a member of both Kalākaua's Privy Council of State and Liliʻuokalani's Privy Council of State.
context_section_description: After five years on the islands, he became engaged to Juliette Montague Cooke (1843–1921), the daughter of Amos Starr Cooke, She shared the same name as her mother Juliette Montague Cooke.
  
   
  Shortly afterwards Juliette left to the United States for a year long visit. Upon her return they married on June 29, 1865. The couple had six children, two of whom died at an early age: 
  Charles H. Atherton (1867–1878) who later assumed the full business responsibilities of his father. 
  Mary Atherton (1869–1951) who married Theodore Richards and who wrote about her grandmother Juliette Montague Cooke. 
  Benjamin Hawley Atherton (1871–1878), who died at an early age.
  Dr Alexander Montague Atherton (1875–1903) who went on to work at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University. Doctor of Medicine. A.R., Wesleyan 1897, Resident Physician Charity Hospital, Blackwell’s Island, NY 1901–1902, and then as a Physician in Honolulu.
  Frank Cooke Atherton (1877–1945) who began his career at the Bank of Hawaii, was later the director of Hawaiian Electric Co. . His son, J. Ballard Atherton , was president of Hawaiian Telephone Company.
  Kate Marion Atherton (1879–1919)
caption: Mullet Wrapped in Tea Leaves by his wife, J.M. Cooke Atherton
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