Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....McBryde, Walter Duncan January 2, 1864 - ************************************************ 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 November 17, 2011, 2:50 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925. Author: Edited by George F. Nellist WALTER DUNCAN MCBRYDE, Agriculturist. As one of the founders of the sugar plantation on Kauai which was later incorporated as the McBryde Sugar Co., Ltd., and as manager of the Kauai Fruit & Land Co., Ltd., Walter D. McBryde of Kalahelo, Kauai, has been continuously identified since 1898 with the development of both the sugar and pineapple industries on the island of Kauai. He is also known for his gift of 375 acres of land at Kalaheo, Kauai, for a public park, which he purchased from the territorial government in 1907, and which is now known as Kukuiolono Park. This land has been deeded to the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd., in an irrevocable trust to be used as a play and recreation ground for all time for the benefit of the public regardless of race, color or creed. Mr. McBryde was born at Wahiawa, Kauai, Jan. 2, 1864, the son of Duncan and Elizabeth Amelia McBryde. His father was a Scotchman, who came to Hawaii where he met and married Elizabeth Amelia Moxley. He was engaged in the stock (cattle) business at Wahiawa, Kauai, and was judge of the Circuit Court of the Island of Kauai for many years. Walter McBryde’s education was received from a private governess and at St. Alban’s College, Honolulu, of which the late A. T. Atkinson was principal. His father died when the son was fourteen and the latter found employment in the office of Allen & Robinson, Honolulu lumber merchants. When eighteen he left for Puget Sound, in company with William T. Monsarrat and Ernest H. Wodehouse, on the barkentine “Klititat.” He remained in the state of Washington for several years, engaged variously in merchandising, real estate and banking at Grays Harbor and Willipa Harbor. In 1895 Mr. McBryde returned to Hawaii and was shortly thereafter elected as a representative to the legislature of the provisional government from Kauai. He then worked for the firm of Bishop & Co., Bankers, until 1898, when, in conjunction with W. A. Kinney he started the sugar plantation on Kauai which is now known as the McBryde Sugar Co., Ltd. When the Kauai Fruit & Land Co., Ltd., was formed in 1905 he was made its manager. The first year’s pack of pineapples in 1907 was 2572 cases, while the present output is about 250,000 cases annually. Mr. McBryde has been in public service. Upon the inauguration of county government in 1905 he was elected to the board of supervisors for Kauai from the district of Koloa, and held office for eight terms, or sixteen consecutive years. From 1900 until 1905 he was in charge of the government roads in the Koloa district, reporting to the Commissioner of the Interior as the road supervisor. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/mcbryde115gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/hifiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb