Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Galt, John Randolph June 5, 1867 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com July 11, 2011, 5:29 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist JOHN RANDOLPH GALT, Financier. Vice-president and manager of the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd., president of the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce (1925) and an active leader in every social welfare agency in the city, John R. Galt has been an influential factor in the civic and business development of Honolulu since 1899, when he came here to join what is now the oldest and largest trust company in the Territory, assuming the managership in 1903. The corporation’s resources increased from $411,687 in 1910 to $2,197,123 in 1923, when it observed its twenty-fifth anniversary, a record of success without parallel in the history of corporate trust business in Hawaii. Mr. Galt’s interest in welfare work is comprehensive. He was chairman of the executive committee of the United Welfare Campaign which raised $425,000 for Honolulu’s charity needs in 1925, has been president of Palama Settlement for many years, is president of the Social Welfare Bureau, executive chairman of the fleet entertainment committee, trustee of Queen’s Hospital and the Oahu Cemetery Association, treasurer of the Territorial Commission of Social Work, chairman of the committee on Waimea Home, president of the Social Service Bureau, formerly the Associated Charities of Honolulu; a member of the executive committee of the American Red Cross and a member of the central committee of the Y.W.C.A. campaign for a new building. Among other business interests, Mr. Galt is president of the Hawaii Consolidated Railway, Ltd., vice-president and director of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., and the Mutual Telephone Co., Ltd.; president of C. Brewer Estate, Ltd., John Ii Estate, Ltd., and a director of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., Hawaiian Agricultural Co., Lewers & Cooke, Ltd., Onomea Sugar Co., Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd., Lihue plantation and Ewa and Waialua plantations. He is president of Yale Alumni Association and a member of the University, Oahu Country, Pacific, Commercial and Hawaii Polo and Racing clubs of Honolulu, Graduate Club of New Haven, Conn., Yale and University clubs, New York City. Before coming to Hawaii, Mr. Galt was in business with the firm of Galt Brothers in Seattle from 1890 to 1896, and from 1896 to 1903 was correspondent and secretary with the Pope Manufacturing Co. of Hartford, Conn. He was born June 5, 1867, at Newburg, N.Y., the son of John and Evelyn (Roberts) Galt, and attended the public schools of New York, Siglar’s Preparatory School in Newburg, N.Y., and Yale University. It was while attending Yale that he met former Governor George R. Carter of Honolulu, and, as a result of this friendship, made his first visit to the Hawaiian Islands. In 1892 he married Mr. Carter’s sister, Agnes Carter, and they have two sons, John Galt, with C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., and C. L. Carter Galt, with the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/galt361bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb