Hawaii County HI Archives Biographies.....Aungst, Luther Stine March 5, 1871 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

Aungst, Luther Stine: Business Man, Holualoa, Hawaii.

     Born Oct. 26, 1862, Linglestown, Pa., son of Daniel and Amanda (Stine)
Aungst: married Emma L. Schoen at Hilo, Hawaii, Feb. 1, 1896, children, Mrs.
Edith A. Smith, Ookals, Hawaii; Elmer Lewis, Palo Alto, Cal. and Wallace M.,
manager of Kona Garage, Holualoa, Hawaii; member, Kilauea Lodge No. 330, F. & A.
M.; Excelsior Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F.; Polynesia Encampment, No. 1, I. O. O.
F.; Mystic Lodge, No. 2, Knights of Pythias; Kona Civic Club (past chairman).

     Mr. Aungst has been in the telephone business since his early youth, and
was a pioneer in the development of communications on the Island of Hawaii.
Educated in the public schools of Decatur, Ill., he was employed by telephone
companies in Des Moines, Iowa, 1879-82, Philadelphia, 1882-86, and in San
Francisco and Los Angeles, 1886-90. Coming to Hawaii in February, 1890, to take
charge of and rebuild the Hamakua and South Kohala Telephone & Telegraph Co.’s
system, he was later engaged in similar work in Honolulu, and in the Kona and
Kau districts of Hawaii, where he has been located for many years. Having
disposed of his privately owned telephone interests in Kau and Kona, in recent
years he has been superintendent of the Hawaii Telephone System in Kona, with
his headquarters and home at Holauloa.


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