Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Ewart, George Robert October 17, 1846 - 
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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

GEORGE ROBERT EWART, Retired Engineer and Plantation Manager. Trained as an 
engineer in English locomotive works, George R. Ewart followed railway work 
for years in Canada and the United States before coming to Hawaii and engaging 
in mill work and becoming plantation manager of various large sugar 
plantations.
  He arrived in Honolulu on the steamer “St. Paul” on Dec. 28, 1877, and began 
work for the Honolulu Iron Works Co. From 1878 to 1880 he was engineer for the 
Niulii Mill & Plantation Co. at Kohala, Hawaii, and for the following year was 
engineer for the Pacific Sugar Mill Co. at Hamakua. From 1881 to 1888 he was 
manager of the Star Mill Sugar Co. at Kohala, from 1888 to 1890 manager of the 
Heeia Sugar Plantation Co. on Oahu, and from 1890 until his retirement in 1902 
he was manager of the Kilauea Sugar Mill Co. at Kilauea, Kauai. During a 
portion of the latter period he was also postmaster at Kilauea, and while 
residing at Heeia he was chairman of the road board.
  Mr. Ewart made three trips to Mexico in connection with the Hidalgo 
Plantation Co. and one in connection with the Tabasco Land & Plantation Co. at 
Oaxaquena, Vera Cruz, Mexico.
  At the conclusion of his schooling in England, where he was born in 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Oct. 17, 1846, Mr. Ewart served his apprenticeship as 
a mechanical engineer at R. Stephenson & Co., locomotive works, of the same 
town. He then worked for a short time in the hydraulic department of Sir W. G. 
Armstrong’s works at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before leaving for Canada 
in 1867. In Kingston, Ontario, he was employed by the Kingston locomotive 
works, and in 1868 he began working in the railway shops of the Chicago & 
Alton Railway at Bloomington, Ill. For the next ten years he was connected 
successively with the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway at Springfield, Ill., 
the Chicago & Great Eastern Railway at Logansport, Ind., Missouri Pacific 
Railway at Franklin City, Mo., private engineering shops in St. Louis, Mo., 
and Cairo, Ill., again with the Chicago & Alton at Bloomington, the 
Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western Railway at Urbana, Ill., the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Railway at Galesburg, Ill., the Atchison, Nebraska Railway 
at Atchison, Kan., and the Union Pacific Railway at Evanston, Wyo. In Nevada 
he erected two locomotives at Glenbrook, Lake Tahoe, for Yarington & Bliss, 
lumbermen, to run from Glenbrook to Spooner’s Summit, Nevada, and worked in 
the shops of the Central Pacific Railway and in private engineering shops at 
Sutter Creek and Sacramento, Calif.
  In 1874 Mr. Ewart married Miss Lavinia Downing of Minneapolis, Minn., and 
they have four children, G. R. Ewart, Jr., civil engineer for the Kekaha 
plantation on Kauai; Mrs. E. J. Waterman, Honolulu; A. F. Ewart, works 
manager, Honolulu Iron Works Co., and Mrs. Robert R. Catton, Honolulu. Mr. 
Ewart is a Mason, an honorary member of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ 
Association, and a member of the Association of Hawaiian Sugar Technologists.


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