Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Foster, John P. July 7, 1878 - 
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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

JOHN P. FOSTER, Chemist and Inventor. Scientific research which has made 
possible the development of new island resources and new industries, including 
the production of lime from beach sand for the manufacture of Portland cement 
and the derivation of alcohol for motor fuel from waste molasses, has marked 
the career in Hawaii of John P. Foster, chemist and sugar factory 
superintendent for the Maui Agricultural Co., Paia, Maui.
  Born at Lime Springs, Iowa, July 7, 1878, he is the son of John E. and Helen 
J. (Daniels) Foster. He was educated at the Lake Charles Congregational 
College, Ia., taking a literary course with a B. L. degree, and the Audubon 
Sugar School of the University of Louisiana. After working as a chemist at 
various plantations in Louisiana, Texas and Cuba, Mr. Foster came to Hawaii as 
chemist for the Maui Agricultural Co., a position he has held since January, 
1906. Previously he had been chemist for a petroleum oil refinery, customs 
house chemist for the United States government and consulting chemist for a 
bagasse paper factory in Louisiana. He has successfully introduced numerous 
labor saving devices for sugar factories during his service in Hawaii.
  He married Cora D. Boyum at Jennings, La., Jan. 1, 1901, and they have one 
child, Dorothy E. Foster.
  Mr. Foster was acting president of the Hawaiian Chemists’ Association, 1919, 
and president in 1920. He is a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner, a member of 
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, the Chamber of Commerce of Maui, the 
University Club of Honolulu, the Chemists’ Club of New York and the American 
Chemists’ Association.


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