Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Aguiar, Jr, Manuel R. January 2, 1892 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr orr@hawaii.com October 13, 2009, 3:05 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist MANUEL R. AGUIAR, JR., Farmer and Legislator. One of the men who has proved that homesteading may be carried on successfully in Hawaii is Manuel R. Aguiar, Jr., of Kapaa, Kauai, who also has served as a member of the territorial legislature. Mr. Aguiar devoted himself to agriculture with the Makee Sugar Co., beginning at the age of 14. After four years at that plantation he left to accept appointment as assistant postmaster at Kelia in 1914. He resigned this post after nine months’ service to devote himself entirely to his homestead at Kapaa. Born in Hanamaulu, Kauai, on Jan. 2, 1892, Mr. Aguiar is the son of Manuel R. and Marie R. Aguiar. His service in the legislature was as a member of the House in the 1919 session. He was a member of the Hawaii National Guard from 1916 to 1918. Mr. Aguiar, running on the Democratic ticket, was elected to the Kauai board of supervisors in November, 1923, representing the Kawaihau district. Member of the board of directors of the Bank of Kauai, Lihue; secretary of the Kapaa Homesteaders’ Co-operative Association, and membership in Foresters’ Lodge, Court Waialelale, Kauai, are included in Mr. Aguiar’s other activities. He married Beatrice Ignacio of Papaikou, Hawaii, on Feb. 25, 1922, and they have two children, Beatrice Stiffany and Marie Carroll Aguiar. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/aguiarjr76bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb