Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Edwards, Eric H. January 13, 1882 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ERIC H. EDWARDS, Ranch Manager. Manager of the Waiohinu Agricultural & Grazing 
Co.’s ranch at Kau, Island of Hawaii, for fifteen years, Eric H. Edwards came 
to the Territory in 1901 after extensive experience in ranching in Queensland, 
Australia.
  Born Jan. 13, 1882, in New Zealand, the son of Edward Henry and Ada Edwards, 
he was educated at St. Louis College, Mauritius. He engaged in cattle ranching 
in Queensland until 1900, when he departed for Hawaii. With his father he 
became interested in vanilla culture and was manager of the Papa Ranch, South 
Kona, from 1903 to 1906. He became assistant superintendent of the American-
Hawaiian Mahogany Lumber Co. in 1906 and resigned the next year to assume the 
management of the Waiohinu Ranch. He retired from the ranch in October, 1921, 
and now practices law and is postmaster at Waiohinu.
  Mr. Edwards became a naturalized citizen of the United States, May 16, 1910, 
and is a member of the Elks, local council Boy Scouts of America and the 
British Club. He married Kate Young at Honolulu, May 19, 1915.


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