Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Dowsett, John McKibbon October 24, 1862 - 
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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

JOHN MCKIBBIN DOWSETT, Business Executive. John M. Dowsett, sugar factor and 
president of J. M. Dowsett, Ltd., is a prominent figure in the sugar industry 
of Hawaii, identified in various connections with many of the more important 
corporations of the Territory, and is a member of one of the oldest and best 
known Anglo-Saxon families of the Islands.
  He is a grandson of Captain Samuel James Dowsett, British colonial naval 
officer, who established his family and name in Hawaii in 1828, and a son of 
the late Samuel Henry Dowsett, youngest son of Captain Dowsett, who was born 
in Honolulu, Sept. 18, 1834. Samuel Henry Dowsett entered the lumber business 
as a young man under the firm name of S. H. Dowsett & Co., and a promising 
business career was ended with his untimely death in San Francisco, April 7, 
1866, at the age of 31.
  On July 30, 1861, Samuel Henry Dowsett married Mary McKibbin, who came to 
Hawaii from Belfast, Ireland, with her parents in 1855. Mrs. Dowsett died at 
Makawao, Maui, March 14, 1925, at the age of 87, survived by two children, 
John M. Dowsett and Dora Melville Dowsett Von Tempsky.
  John M. Dowsett, the subject of this sketch, was born in Honolulu, Oct. 24, 
1862. He received his education in the schools of Honolulu, attending St. 
Alban’s College and high school and spent two years in study at Brussels, 
Belgium.
  Returning to Honolulu late in 1879, Mr. Dowsett started his business career 
at that time, entering the Bank of Bishop & Co., where he remained until 1895. 
Becoming interested in the rapidly developing sugar industry, Mr. Dowsett 
became identified with the Waianae Co.’s sugar plantation in 1895, and in 1897 
became Honolulu agent for the corporation, at the same time establishing 
himself as a fire insurance agent, an interest which he continues in 1925. He 
is now vice-president and the largest shareholder of the Waianae plantation. 
He is also interested in the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., is an officer 
of that corporation and has various other business interests in Honolulu.
  Mr. Dowsett has taken part in public life, serving as a legislator and on 
public commissions. Entering politics in 1905, he was elected senator, serving 
four years. He has been a member of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry and 
the Board of Prison Inspectors, serving for many years on each, and resigning 
from these positions in 1923.
  Mr. Dowsett and Wilhelmine Widemann were married in Honolulu, April 30, 
1888. Mrs. Dowsett is the daughter of the late H. A. Widemann, widely known as 
a justice of the Supreme Court under the Monarchy and as a political leader in 
the late 90’s. Mr. and Mrs. Dowsett are the parents of three children, Herbert 
Melville, Frank Llewellyn and Alice Aileen. Mr. Dowsett is a member of the 
Pacific, Oahu Country and Hawaii Polo and Racing Clubs.


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