Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Dillingham, Harold Garfield October 9, 1881 - 
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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

HAROLD GARFIELD DILLINGHAM, Railway Official and Financier. Railroading has 
claimed a major share of the interest of another member of the Dillingham 
family in Hawaii in Harold Garfield Dillingham, second son of the late B. F. 
Dillingham, Hawaiian “Empire Builder,” and Emma Louise (Smith) Dillingham.
  Yachting enthusiast, club man, financier, and officer or director of many 
large Hawaiian business corporations, Mr. Dillingham has yet found time for 
public service to the Territory, in war service, Y.M.C.A. activities and 
recently as chairman of the Commission on Public Accountancy.
  Born in Honolulu, Oct. 9, 1881, H. G. Dillingham was educated at Punahou 
Preparatory School, Oahu College, Oakland High School and Harvard University. 
While at Harvard he captained the ‘varsity crew, and since his advent into the 
business world of Hawaii has continued his hobby through the organization of 
the Pearl Harbor Yacht Club. Seven boats have been built recently by club 
members and races are held every two weeks on a 15-mile course around Ford 
Island.
  Returning to Honolulu from college, Mr. Dillingham joined the Oahu Railway & 
Land Co. in 1904, sharing with his elder brother, Walter F. Dillingham, the 
responsibility of carrying through to success the many enterprises of their 
father, who was forced into semi-retirement by illness. Mr. Dillingham served 
the railway company as cashier and treasurer, and since the death of his 
father in 1918 has been vice-president.
  Mr. Dillingham is also president and manager of the B. F. Dillingham Co., 
Ltd., financial, insurance, shipping and general agencies, a company which is 
rapidly growing and entering new fields. It represents the Los Angeles 
Steamship Co. in Honolulu.
  His other business interests include directorships in the McBryde Sugar Co., 
Kauai Railway Co., Kauai Fruit & Land Co., director and vice-president of the 
Army National Bank, Schofield Barracks, and secretary of the Hawaiian 
Contracting Co., the latter another important Dillingham enterprise.
  During the World War, Mr. Dillingham saw active service as a captain in the 
Q.M.C. at Camp Shelly, Miss., and in the office of the Quartermaster General 
in Washington, D.C.
  He belong to the Harvard Club of New York, ‘Varsity and Owl Club, Institute 
of 1770, DKE Fraternity of Harvard, Hasty Pudding Club, Hawaii Polo and Racing 
Club and Oahu Country Club.
  In 1908, Mr. Dillingham married Miss Margaret Bayard Smith, daughter of 
Bayard Thornton Smith of San Francisco, and the couple have five sons, Walter 
Hyde, Harold G., Jr., John Henley, Bayard Harrison and Peter Harding.


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