Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Larsen, L. David September 18, 1886 - 
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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

L. DAVID LARSEN, Plantation Manager. A decade of special research work with a 
view to discovering means of increasing the yield and decreasing production 
costs on sugar plantations of Hawaii preceded the appointment in 1918 of L. 
David Larsen as manager of the Kilauea Sugar Plantation Co.
  After graduation from the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, 
Mass., with the degree of B.S., in 1908, he came to the islands as plant 
pathologist at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association experiment station in 
Honolulu. He transferred to the agricultural department of the same 
organization in 1915 and was appointed chief agriculturist the next year. Two 
years later, on Jan. 1, 1918, he became manager of Kilauea plantation.
  Born Sept. 18, 1886, at Stockholm, Sweden, he is the son of Emil and Marie 
(Freeman) Larsen, who came to the United States in 1892. He was educated in 
the grammar schools of Peekskill, N.Y., and Bridgeport, Conn., and was 
graduated from the Bridgeport High School in preparation for his course at 
Amherst.
  Mr. Larsen married Katherine Wood of California on March 31, 1917, and they 
have five children, Ingrid, David Wood, Katherine, Norma and Margit Larsen. He 
is a member of Kappa Sigma national fraternity, Phi Kappa Phi, the national 
scientific honorary fraternity; the Hawaiian Chemists’ Association, and the 
Commercial Club of Honolulu. In addition to his other interests, Mr. Larsen is 
president and a director of the Garden Island Motors, Ltd., Lihue, Kauai; was 
president of the Kauai chamber of Commerce in 1924 and a member of the 
Republican Central Committee in 1922.


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