Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Kluegel, Charles Henry February 27, 1847 - 
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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

CHARLES HENRY KLUEGEL, Civil Engineer. Engineering work on various large 
water, railroad and irrigation projects has claimed the greater portion of 
Charles H. Kluegel’s career since he began as a draughtsman in the office of 
the United States Surveyor General in San Francisco in 1867. For the next 
twenty years he handled many large engineering projects on the Pacific Coast, 
including river and tide land surveys, reclamation of overflowed lands, 
irrigation projects and surveys for the water supply of San Francisco. He was 
also locating engineer on the Pacific line of the Mexican Central Railway and 
on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and he also worked on the location, 
construction and maintenance of several minor railways.
  In October, 1888, Mr. Kluegel came to Hawaii and became chief engineer of 
the Oahu Railway & Land Co., and later the Hilo Railroad Co., serving in those 
important positions from 1888 to 1906. Mr. Kluegel was closely associated with 
the late B. F. Dillingham in all of the latter’s projects and enterprises in 
the Territory. He also was engineer on the Oahu plantation at its very 
beginning, and in 1905 did engineering work for the Kauai Electric Co. From 
1907 to 1909 he was assistant superintendent of public works, and for the next 
four years was chief engineer of the Hilo Railroad, working on the Hamakua 
extension. From 1913 to 1916 he served as inspecting and consulting engineer 
of the Waiahole Water Co., and for the following two years was inspector on 
the Hilo and Kahului breakwaters. In 1918 he returned to the Oahu Railway & 
Land Co. and has been chief engineer of the system since that time.
  Born in Newburgh, Ohio, on Feb. 27, 1847, Mr. Kluegel is the son of 
Ferdinand and Charlotte (Ehinger) Kluegel. He was educated in Cleveland High 
School, and Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., where he was graduated as a 
civil engineer in 1867. In 1874 he married Mary Taylor in San Rafael, Calif., 
and they have four children, George Taylor, Harry Allardt, May T. and Alice B. 
Kluegel (deceased). He is a member of the American Association of Engineers, 
American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science.


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