Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Beyer, Paul March 18, 1889 - 
************************************************
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:
Jessica Orr orr@hawaii.com January 5, 2010, 4:23 pm

Source: The Story of the Builders of Hawaii. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

PAUL BEYER, Business Organizer. Paul Beyer, president and manager of the 
Hawaiian Tuna Packers, Ltd., and owner of the Service Cold Storage Co., has 
been engaged in various enterprises in Honolulu since 1910, establishing a 
position in the business life of the community.
  Born in Stettin, Germany, March 18, 1889, Mr. Beyer is the son of Emil and 
Anna (Rahn) Beyer. He received his education in the schools of Stettin and was 
for three years apprenticed with a shipbuilding company there. Before coming 
to Hawaii, he was a seaman for seven years on sailing and steam vessels. He 
became a member of the crew of the “Fong Suey” owned by C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., 
Honolulu, joining the ship at New York for Honolulu in 1910, and made a 
perilous journey around Cape Horn in which the ship’s rudder was lost and the 
craft drifted for three weeks toward the South Pole.
  Upon his arrival in Honolulu, Mr. Beyer entered the employ of the Hawaiian 
Dredging Co., Ltd., engaged at that time on the Pearl Harbor project, and 
within six months rose from deck-hand to dredger operator. In 1911, he 
launched a moving picture venture, owning the Independent Theater on Hotel 
Street. He later conducted an auto rent service for several months and then 
became affiliated with the Komokila Shipping Co., remaining with the firm 
after it changed owners until 1919, when he was made port engineer for the 
Hawaiian Tuna Packing Co. and in 1921 reorganized the firm as the Hawaiian 
Tuna Packers, Ltd., taking charge of the enterprise. He established the 
Service Cold Storage shortly afterwards, later branching into a wholesale and 
retail business in fish, poultry and delicatessen.
  Mr. Beyer and Emelia Ernestberg were married in Honolulu, in March, 1914. 
They have seven children, Annie, Paul, Dora, Thomas, William, Dolores and Jack 
Beyer. Mr. Beyer is an Elk and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Automobile 
and Healani Boat Clubs.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/beyer155bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/

File size: 2.6 Kb