Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Barnes, Kenneth Bigham August 9, 1885 - 
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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 Geroge F. Nellist

KENNETH BIGHAM BARNES, Corporation Executive. Identified with the pineapple 
industry during the period of its greatest expansion, Kenneth B. Barnes, 
secretary and a director of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., has been 
continuously associated with that corporation since 1909.
  When Mr. Barnes left Princeton University in 1906 with an A. B. degree, he 
immediately accepted a position as instructor in Mt. Tamalpais Military 
Academy, San Rafael, Calif., and remained there three years. He then came to 
Hawaii and joined the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. as a timekeeper. From 1911 to 
1916 he was secretary-treasurer of the corporation and since 1916 he has been 
secretary.
  A descendant of John Barnes of County Armagh, Ireland, who settled in Mercer 
County, Pennsylvania, in 1800, Mr. Barnes comes of old Pennsylvania stock. The 
son of the Rev. W. S. and Mary Agnes (Bigham) Barnes, he was born Aug. 9, 
1885, at Gettysburg, Penn., and received his early education in the public 
schools of Nebraska, Indiana and Iowa.
  Mr. Barnes is a past president of the Commercial Club and a member of the 
Oahu Country Club, the University Club and the Chamber of Commerce. In 1911 he 
married Carolyn Sheffield, daughter of Rev. D. Z. Sheffield of Peking, China, 
and they have three children, William Sheffield, Mary Elizabeth and Robert 
Sherrill Barnes.


Additional Comments:
DOD according to Social Security Death Index was December, 1971 in New Jersey.

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