Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Koelling, Frederick Christian April 24, 1887 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com September 28, 2011, 9:18 pm 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 CHRISTIAN KOELLING, Civil Engineer. Beginning his professional career in 1909 as assistant civil engineer for the Honokaa Sugar Co. and the Pacific Sugar Mill, Frederick C. Koelling has held various important engineering posts with large sugar and irrigation concerns, and is now superintendent of the Kohala Ditch Co., Ltd., and engineer for the Hawi Mill & Plantation Co., Ltd., at Hawi, Hawaii, to which positions he was appointed in 1923. He also handles considerable private practice. Prior to entering engineering, Mr. Koelling was employed from 1905 to 1906 in the office of Catton, Neill & Co., Ltd., in Honolulu, and from 1906 to 1909 he was timekeeper for the Pacific Sugar Mill. From 1913 to 1916 he was division engineer, working on the construction of the great Waiahole tunnel on Oahu, and for the next two years, as a civil engineer for the Pioneer Mill Co. at Lahaina, Maui, he was employed on the construction of the Honokawai tunnel, a one and one-third mile bore. Mr. Koelling was superintendent of the Kohala Ditch Co., Ltd., from 1918 to 1922 and during the next year constructed six miles of tunnels, ditches and pipe lines to convey water from the Kailua swamps to the cane fields of the Waimanalo Sugar Co., Oahu, then being civil engineer for the Waimanalo plantation. Born in Hanalei, Kauai, April 24, 1887, Mr. Koelling is the son of Charles and Leonora (Luhwing) Koelling. He attended St. Louis College in Honolulu. In 1917 he married Meta Eleonora Riedel and they have four daughters, Verna, Doris, Mary and Janis Koelling. Mr. Koelling is a member of Kilauea Lodge, No. 330, F. & A.M.; Maile Lodge, No. 4, Knights of Pythias; the Masonic Club of Kohala, and is a member of the American Association of Engineers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/koelling71gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb