Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Eklund, Walter Edward August 16, 1892 - 
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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

WALTER EDWARD EKLUND, Automobile Dealer. Leaving the sugar industry, Walter E. 
Eklund became interested in radio telegraphy before America’s entrance into 
the World War, was appointed engineer of the Marconi wireless plant at Kahuku, 
Oahu, and after three years in that position and his service in the United 
States navy during the war, he entered the automobile business. After serving 
as manager of the Kauai branch of the von Hamm-Young Co., he was promoted to 
his present position of manager of the Hilo branch of that concern.
  Born at Ewa, Oahu, Aug. 16, 1892, he is the son of Carl E. and Sophia Elvina 
Eklund. He was educated at Central Grammar School and St. Louis College. After 
leaving school he followed the trade of machinist, serving his apprenticeship 
with Catton, Neill & Co., Honolulu. He was assistant mill engineer for the 
McBryde Sugar Co., Eleele, Kauai, for two years when he became interested in 
radio and was assistant engineer for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. at the 
Kahuku station. During the last eighteen months of the World War he was in 
charge of that station with the rank of chief petty officer in the United 
States Navy, now released. When he was released to inactive duty in 1919, 
after the armistice, he became associated with the von Hamm-Young Co. as an 
automobile salesman.
  Mr. Eklund married Grace Arline Edwards, Dec. 9, 1919, at Honolulu. They 
have three children, Barbara Jane, born Jan. 26, 1922; Beatrix Elaine, born 
Feb. 28, 1923, and Elizabeth Grace Leinaala Eklund, born March 5, 1925. Mr. 
Eklund is a director of the Hilo Chamber of Commerce (1925), a member of the 
executive committee, Hawaii Welfare Drive (1925), and a member of the Native 
Sons of Hawaii, the Honolulu Auto Club and Hilo Yacht Club. In October, 1924, 
he made a notable automobile speed record during a visit to the mainland, when 
he drove from coast to coast, 3875 miles, in twelve and a half days in company 
with Ralph H. Wilson of Maui.


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