Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Deinert, Edmund Frederick 1878 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

EDMUND FREDERICK DEINERT, Power Superintendent. Designer and builder of the 
central power plant on the plantation of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., 
on the island of Maui, and designer and installer of five different electric 
motor-driven pumping plants to replace the former steam-driven machinery, 
Edmund F. Deinert, now superintendent of pumps and power plant, is largely 
responsible for the modern pumping and power equipment now in use on that 
sugar plantation, the largest in the Territory.
  Mr. Deinert first worked as a machinist on the construction of the McBryde 
Mill on Kauai in 1901. In September of that year he went to Puunene, Maui, to 
work on the construction of the Puunene mill, and since that time he has been 
with the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. in various capacities of machinist, 
foreman of machine repairs, night mill engineer, pump engineer, and in his 
present position as superintendent of pumps and power plant. During his first 
three years at Puunene, Mr. Deinert took a course in mechanical engineering, 
educational work which largely fitted him for the responsible post he now 
holds.
  In 1915 he installed the first Diesel oil engine in plantation service in 
Hawaii, and in 1922 he installed a second Diesel oil engine unit, which is the 
largest oil engine in operation in the Territory. The central power plant 
which he designed will have an ultimate capacity of 7500 kilowatts to furnish 
power to operate the different large electric motor-driven irrigation pumping 
units and for other requirements on that plantation.
  Born in Germany in 1878, Mr. Deinert came to Hawaii with his parents when a 
child of five years. He was educated in the public schools of Kauai and 
California and a California high school. He learned the machinist’s trade on 
the coast, and returned to Honolulu to accept his first position. In 1916 he 
married Margaret Louise Deinert of San Francisco.
  Mr. Deinert is a Mason, Shriner, Knight of Pythias, and a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Maui Chamber of Commerce, Maui Fair 
and Racing Association and the Puunene Athletic Club.


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