Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Burns, Caleb Edgar S. September 18, 1884 - 
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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

CALEB EDGAR S. BURNS, Plantation Manager. University training in scientific 
agriculture and the management of a Mine farm for two years, gave Caleb E. S. 
Burns, manager of the Pioneer Mill Co., the foundation upon which was built 
his later success in the sugar industry of Hawaii.
  Coming to the Territory in 1909, Mr. Burns was employed by the Maui 
Agricultural CO., until 1917, serving in turn as overseer, team boss, field 
boss, timekeeper and section overseer. In 1917 he was appointed assistant 
manager of the Wailuku Sugar Co., on Feb. 1, 1922, was made manager of the 
Koloa Sugar Co., Kauai, and on Nov. 25, 1922, assumed his present position as 
manager of the Pioneer Mill Co., Lahaina, Maui. 
  Mr. Burns was born at Fort Fairfield, Me., Sept. 18, 1884, the son of Frank 
W. and Eliza (Slocomb) Burns. He was graduated from the University of Maine in 
1907 with the degree of B. S. in Agriculture, and managed a farm in Maine 
until he left for Hawaii in 1909. He married Florence H. Crozier at Honolulu, 
June 4, 1912, and they have one child, Frank Slocomb Burns.
  Mr. Burns is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta national fraternity, a Mason, 
Knight of Pythias, a member of the Maui Chamber of Commerce and Maui Gun Club, 
and is a director of the Maui Fair and Racing Association. A keen sportsman, 
he is especially fond of polo, and has played on several of Maui’s 
championship teams.


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