Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Kay, Robert B. 1888 - 
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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 B. KAY, Plantation Engineer. Four years of war service in the British 
Imperial forces in France interrupted only slightly the engineering career of 
Robert B. Kay in Hawaii, but it did bring him the British Military Cross. Mr. 
Kay left his position as assistant engineer of the Hawaiian Agricultural Co. 
in 1914, after a year’s service there, to join the British army. Two years 
later he was gazetted a lieutenant in the Royal Tank Corps and in 1918 was 
awarded the coveted Military Cross. He returned to Hawaii in 1920 and became 
engineer at the Halawa plantation, a post he left in 1921 to accept the chief 
engineer’s position at the McBryde Sugar Co., on Kauai.
  Born in Tayport, Scotland, in 1888 to William and Barbara Melvilee Kay, Mr. 
Kay was educated in the Tayport public schools. He came to Hawaii in 1912 as 
assistant engineer for the Hawaiian Agricultural Co. In 1917 he married Jessie 
Dowie McConnachie, who returned with him to the islands when he was discharged 
from the army. He is a Mason, a member of St. David lodge, Dundee, Scotland, 
and a member of the British Marine Engineers (B.O.T. certificate).


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