Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Haughs, David Mitchell May 13, 1861 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

DAVID MITCHELL HAUGHS, Territorial Nurseryman. Engaged in government nursery 
and forestry work in Hawaii for the past 33 years, David M. Haughs is 
responsible for much of the tree-planting on the slopes of Tantalus, in Nuuanu 
Valley, and the planting and growing of trees throughout the Territory.
  When Mr. Haughs came to Hawaii in 1893 from his native Scotland, where he 
had spent his entire business life in nursery and forestry work, he was 
employed on the Hutchinson plantation, Hawaii, and after a brief period 
returned to Honolulu and became the forester for the Kingdom.
  In this position Mr. Haughs had charge of the Tantalus forest, and directed 
the planting of thousands of small trees. He also began the planting of Nuuanu 
Valley, and with the change in government and the formation of the Territorial 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Mr. Haughs assumed the 
post of chief nurseryman, which he now holds. He not only directs the raising 
and planting of trees for the forest reserves, plantations and homesteads in 
the Territory, but he pays frequent visits to the agricultural sub-stations on 
the other islands, and gives advice and assistance to anyone in the Territory 
on pruning and planting. The department also operates a seed exchange, by 
which seeds are exchanged with experimental stations and gardens in all parts 
of the world where climatic conditions are the same as in Hawaii.
  Before coming to Hawaii, Mr. Haughs carried on nursery work in Scotland, 
beginning his training in agricultural lines when a young boy in Edinburgh. He 
then went to the Dupplin Castle Estate near Perth, owned by the Earl of 
Kinnoull, and learned general forestry. After spending six years on this 
estate, he joined the Glen Nursery in Edinburgh, and later was employed for 
three years as foreman of the forestry work on the Wemyss Castle Estate.
  Born in Forfar, Scotland, on May 13, 1861, Mr. Haughs is the son of David 
and Janet (Mitchell) Haughs, and the descendant of a long line of Scotch 
ancestry. He attended the public schools of Scotland until he was 18 years 
old. In 1902 he married Mary McMillan of Glasgow, Scotland, and he has one 
daughter, Janet Haughs. Mrs. Haughs died in 1916. Mr. Haughs is a Scottish 
Rite Mason and a member of the Honolulu Ad Club.


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