Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Blair, Jesse Chester May 22, 1886 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925
Author: George F. Nellist, Editor

JESSE CHESTER BLAIR, Engineer. Arriving in Hawaii in March, 1916, to erect a 
power plant for the Island Electric Co., at Wailuku, Maui, Jesse C. Blair 
remained to serve as manager of the company and is now manager and director of 
the Maui Electric Co.
  Born in Buffalo, N. Y., May 22, 1886, he is the son of James Buchanan and 
Elizabeth (Genner) Blair. He attended the grammar and high schools of Buffalo 
and was graduated from the University of California in 1914 with the degree of 
B. S. in mechanical engineering. In the same year and in 1915 he was an 
assistant in the department of physics at that university.
  Previously, he had worked in the shops of the Buffalo Gasoline Motor Co., 
1905-1907, and with his father, who represented that company in San Francisco, 
1907-1909. He was manager of the Island Electric Co. from 1916 until 1920, 
when he was appointed receiver and commissioner for the company. Since 1921, 
following a reorganization, he has been manager and director of the Maui 
Electric Co., Ltd.
  He married Kathryn Louise Driscoll on Sept. 9, 1918. They have three 
children, Arthur Chester, William Clarence, and Theodore Richard Blair. Mr. 
Blair is a member of Lodge Maui No. 472, F. & A.M., holding office as senior 
warden in 1925, belongs to the Scottish Rite bodies, is a Shriner, a Knight of 
Pythias, and a member of the Maui Golf Club, Maui Chamber of Commerce and Maui 
County Fair and Racing Association.


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