HAWAII
TERRITORY
CENSUS REPORTS
1900 - 1930
Hawaii was a kingdom and then a Republic from 1894 till 1898 when it ceded itself to the United States mostly as a result of the Spanish American War. It became a Territory in 1900 and the 50th State on August 21, 1959. Interesting if you were white you were listed as being of the Octoroon race.
There were no Putnams or Putmans indexed.
He is 32 MA MA MA and his wife Myrtie M. Harris is 32 MA. They have been married 11 years and have Melville H. 10 WA. He is an officer in the U. S. Army. He is a son of Henry Locke Putnam (2405) and Mary Elizabeth Wood. He was born in Malden Mass. and his dad was from Newburyport Mass. He was a second lieutenant stationed at Coupeville, Washington in 1900. I assume he is probably a major by now. He is also listed in the Military census for 1910.
She is 20 MI MN MI and single. She is boarding and does office work. She is a daughter of Arthur Alonzo Putnam and Edith Palmer. She was born in Michigan in February 1899 and was with the family in Nobles County Minnesota in 1900. At the time they were living with Arthur’s folks Worthy Adelbert Putnam and Mary Ellen Welch.
25 WI WI WI and a secretary in the YMCA. He is a son of Israel and Venetta Putnam and was home in Marshall, Richland County Wisconsin in 1900 and in Lincoln County Wisconsin in 1910. The family was from Vermont before that. He will marry Rena from Wisconsin soon and they will have a daughter Elizabeth here in 1922 and Virginia in 1926. He was born in Ash Ridge Wisconsin June 6, 1894 and will die in Los Angeles June 3, 1979. Rena was born in Merrill, Wisconsin October 2, 1899 and will die in Orange, California October 13, 1984.
He is 34 MA MA MA single and a Public School teacher. He is married in Hilo on the island of Hawaii in 1930. He looks like the son of Daniel Cady Putnam and Louise Avery from Princeton, Massachusetts. He was at home with his then divorced mother in 1900.
He is 26 IA IL IL married and boarding. He is a sales manager for an automobile garage. He is Charles Uzziel Putnam a son of John Anderson Putnam and Ruth Ellen Holmes, both from Illinois. He was born while the family was in Wapello County Iowa in the early 1900s. In 1910 he was with his folks in Monroe County Missouri. He then came out here to Hawaii and will be here and die in the 1930s. He was married to Emma Boyd in the mid 1920s. They are divorced and Emma and the kids are living with her widowed mother Henrietta Boyd in Honolulu.
He is 45 MA MA MA and his wife Sarah W. 44 CT CT CT. They are both public school teachers. He was single here in 1920. He looks like the son of Daniel Cady Putnam and Louise Avery from Princeton, Massachusetts. He was at home there with his divorced mother in 1900.
IRENE L. T. PUTNAM Honolulu, Oahu Island
She is 25 WI WI MN and a stenographer in the Territorial Government Office. She says she is married but is by herself with a couple of boarders.
He is 50 MO MO MO. His wife Olive is 47 KY and Stanley B. 18 KS. Also here is their married daughter Virginia Voss 16 KS. He is a son of David Thomas Putnam and Sarah Margaret Hensley. He was born in Mercer County Missouri and was with the family in Cowley County Kansas in 1900. He is a Warrant Officer in the Army, and has been stationed at Fort Monroe in Elizabeth City Virginia in 1910 and 1920. Dutch Family from New York.
She is 26 HI PA HI and divorced. She has Lawrence 7 HI IL HI and Ruth 5 HI IL HI. They live with her widowed mother Henrietta Boyd 66 HI. Emma is a saleslady in a dry goods store. According to the daughter Ruth, Emma married a Charles U. Putnam in May 1925 here in Hawaii.
He is 29 NY NY NY single and boarding. He is a taxi driver.