Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Lord, Edmund J. April 8, 1868 - 
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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

EDMUND J. LORD, General Contractor. For the past 24 years a resident of Hawaii 
and an engineer who is responsible for much of the highway construction and 
other public works in the Territory, Edmund J. Lord had wide experience on the 
mainland before coming to Honolulu, and was engaged for a decade on public 
works in various parts of the United States, Mexico and Canada.
  Mr. Lord, when only 13, began work in the logging camps of Canada and the 
United States, and spent seven years in lumber and railroad camps.
  When 20 he settled down to the business of becoming an engineer, taking a 
position in the city engineer’s office of Duluth, Minn. He had charge of a 
great deal of public work in Duluth, and was given the post of foreman of 
public works. For the next eleven years he was foreman and superintendent for 
several engineering firms.
  In 1899 he went to San Francisco, and the following year came to Honolulu as 
superintendent of sewer construction with the contracting firm of Vincent & 
Belser. In 1901 he joined with the late John J. Belser and formed the general 
contracting firm of Lord & Belser, engaging in sewer, highway and dredge 
construction. The firm later became Lord and Young, and in 1918 Mr. Lord 
established his own business under the name of E. J. Lord, general contractor.
  During his residence in Hawaii, Mr. Lord, it is estimated, has done more 
than one-half of the public work in the Territory, including the construction 
of the $750,000 wharf at Pearl Harbor, recently completed; the Waimanalo road 
and the belt road, contracts amounting to $1,500,000. A great part of the 
street paving in Honolulu and highway work all over the Territory has been 
done by Mr. Lord, and he also erected the Mission Memorial Hall, Judiciary 
Building, Public Library, the Hawaiian Trust Building, ammunition houses at 
Fort Shafter, and Piers 2, 8, 9 and 10 on the Honolulu waterfront, the Mala 
wharf, Maui, and the Hilo wharf.
  Mr. Lord is a member of the Commercial and Oahu Country Clubs, and is a 
Mason, Shriner and Elk. He was born in Canada, April 8, 1868, the son of 
Edmund and Virginia Lord. In 1898 he married May McNally of Marion, O., and 
they have three children, George Marion Lord, now with the Edison Electric Co. 
in New York; Albert E. Lord, in business with his father, and Virginia Lord, a 
student at Punahou.


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