Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Horner, Robert September 11, 1866 - 
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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

ROBERT HORNER, Business Man. Although he says “I am a born farmer like my 
father, and a great lover of the soil,” Robert Horner, successful business man 
of Honolulu, has made good in commercial life. Today he is the head of a 
growing amusement concern, besides being a stockholder and official in many of 
the largest sugar plantations in the Territory and a director of other 
business enterprises.
  Mr. Horner aided his father, the late John Mears Horner, in the development 
of the extensive Horner ranch holdings on the island of Hawaii. He inherited 
from his father a love for agriculture and engaged in the cultivation of sugar 
cane until 1912, when he disposed of his ranch interests and removed to 
Honolulu, where he established the Bethel Street Amusement Hall.
  Mr. Horner is a tennis enthusiast and is president of the Neighborhood 
Tennis Club. He is also an ardent follower of horse racing.
  He heads the Bailey Furniture Co. as president, and has extensive realty 
holdings in the business district of Honolulu. Recently he purchased the Odd 
Fellows’ Building and took over the Model Block.
  In 1914 he was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors and was chairman 
of the police committee, a member of the Elks and Commercial Club.
  Mr. Horner was born in Alameda, Calif., Sept. 11, 1866, the son of John 
Mears and Elizabeth (Imlay) Horner, pioneers of California. He was educated 
privately and in the public schools of California and a Punahou School.
  In 1897 he married Amy Adele Blacon of Alameda and their children are 
Carroll Weeks, Elizabeth Emily, Clarence Alvin, Florence Amy, Anita Marjorie, 
Anna Josephine and Harold Richards Horner.


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