Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Filler, Richard Walther 
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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

RICHARD WALTHER FILLER, Railway Manager. As a railroad constructor and 
executive, active also in the public affairs of the Territory, Richard W. 
Filler, superintendent and general manager of the Hawaii Consolidated Railway 
Co., has, with the exception of one year, been continuously engaged in Hawaii 
for more than thirty years.
  Arriving in the islands in May, 1894, he served as station agent for the 
Oahu Railway & Land Co. from July, 1895, to April, 1898, when he was placed in 
charge of building the Kahuku extension of that system. From November, 1898, 
to November, 1899, he was cashier for the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., 
Maui. In November, 1899, he went to the Kahului Railroad Co. as 
superintendent, serving until March, 1907, when he left the Territory to 
become port superintendent at Salina Cruz, Mexico, remaining there until July 
4, 1908.
  Mr. Filler returned to the Territory as superintendent and general manager 
of the Hawaii Consolidated Railway Co., position he still holds. He also 
planned and built the Kahului breakwater and was superintendent of 
construction on the Hamakua extension of the Hawaii railroad.
  He was elected to the 1923 and 1925 sessions of the territorial legislature 
as a member of the house of representatives. He is a past exalted ruler of the 
Elks, and a member of the Commercial Club, Honolulu.
  Mr. Filler married Anna Julia Lachner on Aug. 8, 1887, and they have for 
children, Herbert, Harold, Martha and Hester Filler.


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