Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Moir, John Troup December 21, 1859 - 
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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

JOHN TROUP MOIR, Plantation Manager. A veteran executive of the Hawaiian sugar 
industry and, by reason of his long and successful career, one of the best 
known plantation managers in the Territory, John T. Moir, head of the Onomea 
Sugar Co., at Papaikou, Island of Hawaii, is also associated with wide and 
diversified financial and industrial interests. In addition to managing Onomea 
plantation, he is president of the Hilo Electric Light Co.; president, First 
Trust Co., Hilo; president Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Co.; chairman of the 
advisory board, Bank of Hawaii, Ltd., Hilo branch, and a director of the Inter-
Urban Electric Co.
  Born Dec. 21, 1859, at Cookney, Kincardineshire, Scotland, he is the son of 
Francis and Julia (Troup) Moir. He left school before he was 12 years old to 
perform a man’s work on his father’s farm. Three years later he left the farm 
to go into railroading but returned, after four years’ experience in 
transportation, to his father’s farm, where he remained for seven years.
  In 1888 Mr. Moir left Scotland for Hawaii, arriving at Honolulu, Feb. 17, 
1888, on the steamer Zealandia. The ship was held ten days in quarantine, due 
to the prevalence of smallpox in San Francisco at the time of its departure 
for the islands.
  He left Honolulu by the steamer Kinau for Hilo on Feb. 27 and went to work 
for C. C. Kennedy at the Waiakea Mill Co. Until 1889 he was field luna at the 
Waiakea plantation, leaving to become team luna at Amauulu, Hilo Sugar Co., 
until 1891. His other positions were field luna, Kalaoa, five months in 1889; 
section overseer, Paukaa, 1889-1893; overseer, Onomea plantation, 1893-1895, 
and head overseer for all the sections of the Onomea plantation at Papaikou 
until 1897.
  Mr. Moir was appointed manager of Honomu Sugar Co. kin 1897 and remained for 
two years, returning to Papaikou in Nov., 1898, as manager of Onomea Sugar 
Co., the position he has since held.
  He is a past master, Kilauea Lodge No. 330, F. & A.M.; orator, Scottish Rite 
bodies, a Shriner and a member of Hilo Lodge No. 759, B.P.O. Elks. He also is 
a member of the Hilo Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and Yacht Club.
  Mr. Moir married Louisa Silver on July 20, 1889. They have five children, 
Frances Julia, Louisa Agnes, John Troup, Jr., William Whitmore Goodale, and 
Hector McDonald Moir.


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