Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Devoy, Edmund Burke February 26, 1890 - 
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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 BURKE DEVOY, Hydraulic Engineer. Edmund Burke Devoy, superintendent of 
the water works and sewer department of Ewa plantation, to which position he 
was appointed on June 1, 1925, has been engaged at Ewa in various engineering 
capacities since April 16, 1916, with the exception of a period of World War 
service.
  Mr. Devoy arrived in Honolulu in April, 1916, as an engineer on the Matson 
liner Manoa and was offered and accepted the position of assistant chief 
engineer of Ewa’s pump department, where he remained until June 1, 1918, when 
he entered the army as a second lieutenant, being promoted to first lieutenant 
on Aug. 15, 1918, and receiving his honorable discharge Feb. 3, 1919. On March 
1, 1919, he returned to Ewa as chief engineer of the pump department, a 
position he held until promoted to his present responsible post. During his 
service as chief engineer of Ewa’s pump department, that branch of the 
plantation was completely reorganized, five electrically operated pumping 
stations being installed and the daily capacity being increased to 103,000,000 
gallons of water.
  Born at Eureka, Calif., Feb. 26, 1890, the son of John M. and Mary A. Devoy, 
Mr. Devoy was educated in the public schools and through home study courses 
and served a four-year apprenticeship as a machinist with the Eureka Foundry 
and Machine Shop. He is a member of Honolulu Lodge No. 616, B.P.O.E.; the 
Association of Hawaiian Sugar Technologists and an associate member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. On Dec. 6, 1921, Mr. Devoy married 
Marguerite M. Mapel, and they have one daughter, Dorothy L. Devoy, born Oct. 
4, 1923.


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