Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Fricke, Robert December 25, 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

ROBERT FRICKE, Agriculturist. A quarter of a century of service in the sugar 
industry of Hawaii preceded the appointment of Robert Fricke to his present 
position of head overseer for the Oahu Sugar Co. at Waipahu, Oahu.
  Born in Vienenburg, Germany, Dec. 25, 1878, the son of Herman and Bertha 
(Ahrens) Fricke, he received his education in the grammar and high schools of 
Goslar, Germany.
  Mr. Fricke arrived in Hawaii July 30, 1896, to enter the employ of Waianae 
plantation as a luna. He served as luna and assistant head luna for the Oahu 
Sugar Co. from 1897 to 1906, when he became timekeeper and section luna for 
the McBryde Sugar Co. on Kauai. In 1908 he resigned to become head luna for 
the Pacific Sugar Mill at Kukuihaele, Hawaii, leaving in 1913 to accept the 
same position at Kilauea plantation, Kauai. In 1917 Mr. Fricke became section 
overseer for the Oahu Sugar Co., and in 1918 was promoted to head luna. He is 
a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner.


Additional Comments:
Luna - Hawaiian term for overseer

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