Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Burgess, Verne Josiah September 2, 1879 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Editor George F. Nellist

VERNE JOSIAH BURGESS, Engineer and Sales Agent. Locating in Honolulu eight 
years ago as the representative of various large eastern concerns, Verne 
Josiah Burgess has built up one of the largest engineering and architectural 
concerns in Hawaii.
  In 1922 he organized and built the Wahiawa Ice Co., and was the sole owner 
until the firm was incorporated in 1923 as the Wahiawa Ice Works, Ltd. He 
established the Associated Engineers in 1920, an organization that handles 
every kind of engineering work, with special attention to refrigerating and 
gasoline station engineering.
  Mr. Burgess began his career as a sanitary engineer, following that line 
from 1910 to 1915. In the latter year he became refrigerating engineer for the 
Automatic Refrigerator Co., and still represents this corporation in Hawaii.
  Among other large firms he represents are the S. F. Bowser Co. of Fort 
Wayne, Ind.; E. D. Bullard Co. of San Francisco, and E. B. Lacer & Co. of Los 
Angeles, air compressors.
  Since he came to Honolulu in 1916, Mr. Burgess has installed 58 ice and 
refrigerating plants in the Territory, besides directing the construction of 
bridges, gasoline stations, repair shops and many large buildings.
  He is a member of the American Association of Engineers and the Elks. He was 
born in Robinson, Ill., Sept. 2, 1879, the son of Felix and Guley Burgess. In 
1914 he married Myrtle Irene Whitton at Santa Barbara, and his second wife is 
the former Jessie L. Sullivan of Long Beach, Cal., whom he married in 1921.


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