Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Horace August 12, 1878 - 
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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

HORACE JOHNSON, Corporation Official. Closely connected for a quarter of a 
century with the technical phases of sugar production, Horace Johnson, vice-
president and a director of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., brought to his work in the 
advancement of Hawaii’s primary industry the training of a chemist and 
engineer.
  One of his recent important achievements was the selection and installation 
of equipment for the new Waimanalo sugar mill, completed in 1923, and now the 
most modern plant in the Territory.
  Mr. Johnson came to Hawaii in 1900 from the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology to take a position as chemist with the Waialua Agricultural Co., 
where he remained until 1910. The following year he joined the Pepeekeo Sugar 
Co. in the same capacity and in 1912 was appointed supervising chemist for all 
the plantations represented by C. Brewer & Co. He was elected vice-president 
and director of the corporation in 1919. He is also a director of the Hawaiian 
Agricultural Co., Ltd., and the Onomea, Pepeekeo, Honomu, Hilo and Waimanalo 
sugar companies.
  Born at Newburyport, Mass., Aug. 12, 1878, Mr. Johnson is the son of 
Harrison G. and Harriet (Peabody) Johnson. He was educated at the high schools 
of Abilene, Kansas, and Newburyport, entering the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology with the class of 1901.
  Mr. Johnson and Edna Anderson were married at Honolulu, Dec. 22, 1903. They 
have three children, Ralph Blake, Paul Anderson and Evelyn Johnson.
  Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Hawaiian 
Technologists’ Association and the Hawaiian Engineering Society. He is a 
member of Honolulu Lodge, No. 409, F. 7 A.M.; Aloha Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine, and the Oahu Country and the Commercial Clubs, having served as 
president of the latter during the year 1924-25. He is also a trustee of the 
Queen’s Hospital.


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