Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Metzger, Delbert E. March 4, 1875 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

DELBERT E. METZGER, Lawyer. The usually divergent professions of civil and 
mining engineer and lawyer have been merged in the career of Delbert E. 
Matzger, who served as treasurer of the Territory of Hawaii for several years. 
After education in public and private schools, one year at Washburn College 
and an unfinished senior year at the Indiana Law School, he began his career 
in Kansas in 1895 in real estate and as a grain dealer. Later he served 
successively in the fields of printing, newspaper, theatrical bookkeeping, 
engineering, contracting, mining, railroad operation, engineering and law 
practice and as a volunteer engineer in the United States Army during the 
Spanish-American War.
  Since 1899 he has resided principally in Hawaii where he spent two years 
drilling artesian wells, two years with the Oahu Railway & Land Co., four 
years as superintendent of the Hilo Railroad Co., four years building the Hilo 
harbor breakwater under contracts from the Federal government, and as 
treasurer and insurance commissioner for the Territory as well as membership 
on several public commissions.
  Mr. Metzger’s other public service includes justice of the peace and city 
attorney, Meriden, Kans; president, Board of Trade of Hilo, now the Hawaii 
Chamber of Commerce; senator, Hawaii legislature, 1913 and 1915 sessions, and 
district magistrate for Hilo.
  Born March 4, 1875, in Jefferson County, Kans., he is the son of Eli W. and 
Marguerette Miner (Jones) Metzger. He married Alice Marion Wright at Hilo, 
Hawaii, June 29, 1911. They have four children, Jefferson Eli, Doris 
Marguerette, Helen Victory and Franklin Miner Metzger. Mr. Metzger is a member 
of several technical societies; a 32nd degree Mason, a Shriner, past exalted 
ruler, Hilo Lodge No. 759, B.P.O. Elks; and a member of the Chiefs of Hawaii.


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