Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Goodale, William W. 
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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

WILLIAM W. GOODALE, Retired Plantation Manager. An active figure in the 
development of Hawaii’s sugar industry, in which he was continuously engaged 
for 46 years, 40 of which were spent as a plantation manager, William W. 
Goodale retired in 1924 with a record of service and achievement rarely, if 
ever, equaled in that line of work in the islands. Two of the finest 
plantations in the Territory owe much of their present high standing to Mr. 
Goodale’s constructive work.
  Beginning his career as a cane planter, working on shares with the Hawaiian 
Agricultural Co. at Pahala, Hawaii, Mr. Goodale later was employed for two 
years by that company and then spent two years at Paia and Wailuku plantations 
on Maui. He was appointed manager of Onomea plantation, Hawaii, in November, 
1885, and remained there until 1898.
  During this period he was instrumental in bringing about the consolidation 
of the Onomea, Papaikou and Paukaa plantations into one estate, the Onomea 
Sugar Co., Ltd., with a resultant increase in production efficiency and 
decrease in operation costs which firmly established a most profitable 
enterprise.
  Becoming manager of the Waialua plantation, on the Island of Oahu, in 1898, 
Mr. Goodale continued in that position until his retirement 26 years later, 
with the property in a highly developed condition. He was a factor in the 
construction of the great Wahiawa dam and water reservoir in 1905, and a 
system of artesian wells and pumps and other reservoirs and ditch systems 
which gave Waialua plantation a splendid irrigation system.
  Born in Honolulu, Mr. Goodale is the son of Warren and Ellen Rebecca 
(Whitmore) Goodale. His father, well known in the Honolulu of that period, was 
collector of customs thirteen years, 1851 to 1864, under the Kingdom of 
Hawaii. Mr. Goodale received his education in the public and high schools of 
Marlborough, Mass., and returned to Hawaii. He married Emma March Whitney in 
Honolulu, Oct. 7, 1884, and they have two children, Catherine Warren and 
Holbrook March Goodale.
  Mr. Goodale is a charter member of Kilauea Lodge of Masons, at Hilo, Hawaii, 
is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Pacific, Oahu Country and Commercial 
clubs and the Social Science Association.


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