Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Faye, Hans Peter October 20, 1859 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HANS PETER FAYE, plantation Manager. Hans P. Faye left his position as clerk 
and bookkeeper in a paper and pulp factory in Norway in 1880 and came to 
Hawaii to learn the sugar business, the beginning of a period of achievement 
that led to his appointment 18 years later as manager of the Kekaha Sugar Co., 
a position he still occupies.
  Prior to 1898, he had become an independent planter, his firm, H. P. Faye & 
Co., being among the interests that were consolidated that year as the Kekaha 
plantation. Mr. Faye also is vice-president of the Kekaha Sugar Co., and 
president of the Waimea Sugar Mill Co.
  Born in Drammen, Norway, on Oct. 20, 1859, he is the son of Hans Peter and 
Ida Constance (Knudsen) Faye, and a descendant of an old French family that 
had settled in Norway. He was educated in the schools of Drammen.
  He began his business career in the paper and pulp factory in 1875, but 
removed to Hawaii five years later. He started as a field hand on the Paia, 
Maui plantation, and was promoted later to luna. Two years later he moved to 
Kauai to take charge of cane-planting for Gay & Robinson at Hanapepe. Two 
years later he began well boring at Mana and soon became a planter under the 
firm name of H. P. Faye & Co. His appointment as manager of Kekaha came in 
1898 when the interests of that district were merged into what became one of 
the most successful sugar plantations in Hawaii.
  Mr. Faye married Margaret Lindsay of Kauai on Dec. 21, 1893. They have eight 
children, Isabel Bonnar, Hans Peter, Anton Lindsay, Ida, Margaret, Eyvind, 
Alana and Alexander Faye.
  He is a Mason and a member of the Pacific and Commercial clubs of Honolulu.


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