Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Lister, Robert April 15, 1850 - 
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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 LISTER, Retired Industrial Manager. In the pineapple industry, second 
only to sugar in Hawaii, Robert Lister spent a quarter of a century as manager 
and constructor of canneries, until in 1922 he resigned as superintendent of 
the Kohala Pineapple Co., at Mahukona, Hawaii.
  Born at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on April 15, 1850, the son of James and 
Elizabeth Lister, he was educated in the public schools and began work as an 
apprentice in the machine trade in Canada, and soon turned his attention 
toward the canning industry. He was instrumental in fitting up the Lusk 
Canning Co., Oakland, Calif., in 1899, and was superintendent of the King 
Morse Canning Co., San Francisco, for some time. He later constructed the 
Woodstock Fruit Cannery in Sydney, Australia, and returned to California to 
build the San Leandro Cannery for the King Morse Company.
  Mr. Lister arrived in Honolulu in 1901 and became superintendent of the 
Thomas Pineapple Co., later building and becoming manager of the Kohala 
Pineapple Co.’s plant at Mahukona, a position now held by his son. He married 
Sarah R. Goff of Hamilton, Ontario, on April 9, 1872, and they have two 
children, E. W. and Archie E. Lister. Mr. Lister is a member of Honolulu Lodge 
No. 616, B.P.O. Elks.


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