Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Keller, Arthur Ripont July 28, 1882 - 
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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

ARTHUR RIPONT KELLER, Engineer. For more than 15 years Professor Arthur R. 
Keller has occupied the chair of civil engineering at the College of Hawaii 
and its successor, the University of Hawaii, but he also has found time to 
devote to the solution of many problems of public welfare. He has been a 
member of the Territorial Board of Health, two terms; Territory Sanitary 
Commission; commission to frame the code of sanitary regulations for Hawaii, 
1911-1916; one of the three engineers appointed to design a sewer system for 
Honolulu, 1920, and is a member of the City Planning Commission.
  He arrived in Hawaii in September, 1909, to accept the professorship of 
civil engineering at the College of Hawaii, now a university.
  Born July 28, 1882, at Buffalo, N.Y., he is the son of William M. and Louisa 
(Ripont) Keller. His education was received in the grammar and high schools of 
Buffalo and at the following universities: Carnell, C. E.; National University 
Law School, LL.B.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., and Harvard 
University, S.M.C.E.
  Prior to his arrival at Honolulu, Professor Keller had been assistant 
engineer, C.C.C. & St. L.R.R.; engineer for the N.Y.C.R.R.; junior engineer in 
reconstruction of the Washington Barracks of the Army War College, 1904-06, 
most of the time in charge; assistant manager, Alabama Marble Co., Gantts 
Quarry, Ala., 1906-1908, and engineer of construction, Carborundum Co., 1908-
1909. He also spent two years as assistant engineer for construction on the 
Hilo Railway.
  He was commissioned a captain, engineers, U.S.A. Reserve Corps, June 13, 
1917, trained at Camps Lee and Humphreys; transferred to material section, 
office director-general of military railroads; transferred to the equipment 
section, troop division, office chief of engineers. He was discharged July 23, 
1919, with the rank of captain, Engineer Reserve Corps, and was promoted later 
to his present rank of major in the reserve. Professor Keller is a member of 
Sigma Nu national fraternity and the Commercial Club. He married Lora T. 
Keegan on Oct. 20, 1908.


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