Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hummel, Frederick George February 18, 1874 - 
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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

FREDERICK GEORGE HUMMEL, Electrical Engineer. Frederick G. Hummel, vice-
president, manager and a director of the Mutual Telephone Co., Ltd., came to 
Honolulu in 1909 to stay one year, directing the installation of the automatic 
telephone system. When that work was completed, Mr. Hummel remained as manager 
of the plant and has since been engaged in its development. Honolulu’s 
telephone system has been declared by engineering experts to be one of the 
most modern in the world.
  In addition to his other responsibilities, Mr. Hummel has had occasion to do 
considerable important work as an architect and building engineer. The central 
office building of the Mutual Telephone Co., on Alakea St., one of the most 
attractive and substantial business structures in Honolulu, was designed and 
built by Mr. Hummel in 1918-19 at a cost of only $110,000, despite the fact 
that at that time the costs of building materials and labor were at their 
peak. The branch offices at Kalihi and Kaimuki, in fact, all telephone 
buildings on this island, were also erected under Mr. Hummel’s direction.
  Mr. Hummel installed telephone plants in Toledo, Ohio; Los Angeles and 
Oakland, Calif., and Omaha, Neb., before coming to Hawaii, and has been 
continuously engaged in telephone engineering since he took his first position 
in Mansfield, O., when 19 years old. For several years he was state cable 
inspector for the Bell Telephone Co., with headquarters at Columbus, O.
  Mr. Hummel was born in Loudonville, O., Feb. 18, 1874, the son of George and 
Katherine (Anthony) Hummel and was educated in the public schools of 
Loudonville. In 1901 he married Ada Wilson of Toledo, Ohio.


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