Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Catton, Robert October 7, 1847 - ************************************************ 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: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com February 23, 2011, 4:56 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist ROBERT CATTON, Industrial Builder. Robert Catton, as a sugar mill expert, machinery manufacturer and foundryman, has been a notable figure in the industrial life of the Islands for almost half a century, although retired since 1915. A native of Aberdour, Fife, Scotland, where he was born to John and Janet (Redford) Catton, Oct. 7, 1847, Mr. Catton was educated in Scotland and learned the machinist’s trade. He arrived at Honolulu on Oct. 7, 1878, laid out the foundations for the Waimanalo, Waianae, Kilauea and Paauhau sugar mills, and in 1879 went to Maui, where he was engaged until 1883, when he came to Honolulu and was associated for ten years with G. W. Macfarlane & Co. and W. L. Green in the sale of sugar machinery and steam plows. In 1893 Mr. Catton opened an office in Honolulu and in 1896 he, John Neill and William Stodart formed the Catton-Neill co-partnership to conduct a foundry, machine and boiler shop. Late in 1898 the firm of Catton, Neill & Co., Ltd., was incorporated. For more than a quarter of a century it was a large manufacturer of sugar machinery. The stockholders disposed of their interests to the Honolulu Iron Works in 1923. Mr. Catton was married in the Island of Grenada, B. W. I., in 1878. Of his seven children, all born in Hawaii, five still survive. He is a Mason. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/catton228bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb