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STEPHEN W. ROYCE
Stephen W. Royce, identified with the hotel business in California and Hawaii, was born November 18, 1892, in Liberty, New York; the son of S.A. and Louise (Clements).
After graduating from Hamilton College (New York) in 1914, he studied law at New York Law School, 1917, and was admitted to the State Bar of New York in 1917 and the California bar in 1920.
Mr. Royce entered the hotel business in 1921 at manager of the Hotel Vista de Arroyo, Pasadena, California, which position he held until 1924 when he was appointed managing director of the Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California, which position he still retains. He was also managing director of the Coronado Hotel, Coronado, California, from 1934 to 1938; the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California, from 1939 to 1945; and the Royal Hawaiian and Moana Hotels, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, since 1948. President of the Huntington Hotel Company, Ltd.; director of the First Trust and Savings Bank of Pasadena and Pasadena Tournament of Roses; trustee of Santa Barbara Boys School.
Holds membership in the Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Phi Delta Phi fraternities.
Mr. Royce married Dorothy Linnard on August 8, 1918; children: Stephen W., Jr. (sic), Dorothy R. Hadden, and Daniel Linnard. They reside at the Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California.
Offices: Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California; and Royal Hawaiian and Moana Hotels, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.
Transcribed 11-16-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent Californians
1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor.
Page 152, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California,
1953.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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