Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Biela, Josef Emanuel April 21, 1865 - 
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Source: The Story of the Builders of Hawaii. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOSEF EMANUEL BIELA, Sugar Chemist. After engaging in the distilling business 
for several years in his native country, Silesia, Josef E. Biela went to 
Lisbon, Portugal, and later to San Miguel, Azores, and, coming to Hawaii via 
South America in 1894, he has held responsible positions in the sugar industry 
for more than thirty years, serving as a sugar boiler and chemist on various 
plantations.
  He spent four years with the Kekaha Sugar Co., one season in guano analyzing 
on the Island of Laysan, four years with the Hawaii Mill Co., at Hilo, seven 
years with Laupahoehoe Sugar Co., five years with the Kukaiau Mill Co., five 
years with the Kohala Sugar Co., and since 1922 he has been chemist for the 
Union Mill Co.
   Mr. Biela is a former member of the executive committee of the Association 
of Hawaiian Sugar Technologists, and he is a member of the American Chemical 
Society, a Scottish Rite Mason, Moose, and a charter member of the Kohala 
Masonic Club.
  Born in Overglogau, Upper Silesia, on April 21, 1865, Mr. Biela is the son 
of Emanuel and Caroline (Papkala) Biela. He was educated in a teacher’s 
preparatory school in his native country. In 1912 he married Maria Kobbe Scott 
of Honolulu, and he has two stepsons, Walter and Howard Scott.


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