Joseph Ballard Atherton was a Honolulu businessman and a former president of Castle & Cooke. He was an early founder of Honolulu YMCA and in later life served as its president. He was a member of the
Joseph Ballard Atherton
Atherton (sat at center) with the Cooke family, about 1874, N-0676, Mission Houses Museum Archives
Charles H. Atherton (1867–1878) who later assumed the full business responsibilities of his father
Frank Cooke Atherton (1877–1945) began his career at the Bank of Hawaii, and was later, Director of Hawaiian Electric Co. His son, J. Ballard Atherton, was president of the Hawaiian Telephone Company.
Peter Cushman Jones was a businessman and politician during the Kingdom of Hawaii, Provisional Government of Hawaii, Republic of Hawaii and Territory of Hawaii. He founded the second bank in the Hawai
Joseph Ballard Atherton
…and William Owen Smith to discuss the needs of Hawaii; specifically use of Chinese labor and the arrival of automobiles. In 1897 Atherton, along with Peter Cushman Jones (Minister of Finance under Liliuokalani) and his son Edwin A. Jones, Clarence Hyde Cooke, Fred W. MacFarlane, Edward Davies Tinney, H. Waterhouse, T…
Peter Cushman Jones, Still Young at Seventy Nine
1892 Cabinet, second from right