Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Aiken, Worth Osbun April 24, 1873 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WORTH OSBUN AIKEN, Pineapple Packer. Motivated, perhaps, by the inherited 
spirit of an ancestor who came to America on the “Mayflower,” Worth O. Aiken 
made a long move West to Hawaii at the age of 18, to build a career which has 
included teaching, public service, banking and the management and part 
ownership of pineapple plantations and canneries.
  First employed as an instructor in the Wailuku, Maui, public schools in 
1891, Mr. Aiken resigned the following year to become station agent at the 
Wailuku depot. He was postmaster and agent for the steamer Waimanalo at 
Kahului, Maui, 1892-1904; collector of customs, Kahului, 1904-1912, and sub-
agent of public lands, fourth district, June, 1896 to October, 1920.
  In 1913 Mr. Aiken was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of 
Paia, and acted as assistant cashier until May, 1918, when he became cashier 
of the Paia branch of the Bank of Maui, Ltd., the successor to the First 
National Bank of Paia. In December, 1920, he became vice-president and manager 
of the plant of the Pauwela Pineapple Co., at Haiku, Maui. He also owns and 
operates a pineapple plantation at Makawao.
  Civic affairs have engaged Mr. Aiken’s interest and he was chairman of the 
Makawao road board, 1899-1904; commissioner of public instruction, 1909-1913, 
and has been Maui member of the Hawaii Tourist Bureau since 1915.
  Born at Robbinsville, N.C., April 24, 1873, he is the son of Perley Johnson 
and Julia Orilla (Smythe) Aiken. He is a direct descendant of John Howland, 
a “Mayflower” Pilgrim, and of George Ross, who gained Revolutionary War fame 
as an aide-de-camp on the staff of General George Washington and was a brother-
in-law of Betsy Ross, who made the first American flag.
  Mr. Aiken was educated in the Oakland High School. On April 8, 1896, at La 
Crosse, Wis., he married Helen M. Chamberlain, grand-daughter of Levi 
Chamberlain, one of the early missionaries to Hawaii. They have three 
children, Bertram Smythe, Martha Osbun, and Malcolm Chamberlain Aiken. Mr. 
Aiken is a Mason, Shriner, Knight of Pythias and a member of the Maui Chamber 
of Commerce and Honolulu Ad Club.


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