Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Morton, Robert Matthew June 5, 1872 - 
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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

ROBERT MATTHEW MORTON, Factory Manager. Robert M. Morton is manager of the 
American Can Co.’s plant in Honolulu, the only factory of the kind in Hawaii 
and an industry which, directly dependent upon the pineapple industry, has 
shown proportionately the same huge growth in the last two decades.
  Mr. Morton was transferred to the Honolulu plant from the San Francisco 
office in 1907, immediately after the local factory was opened. He has been 
department foreman and superintendent in San Francisco, and came to Honolulu 
as department foreman. In 1908 he was made superintendent and in 1924 manager. 
During this period production at the factory has increased enormously. In 1906 
the output was 1,250,000 cans, while in 1924, 136,000,000 were made.
  Previous to Mr. Morton’s connection with the American Can Co., he worked for 
a year with the can manufacturing plant of George H. Tay & Co., in San 
Francisco, and two years as a tile-setter with Mangrum & Otter, San Francisco.
  Born in Santa Rosa, Cal., June 5, 1872, Mr. Morton is the son of Robert A. 
and Sarah (Harrison) Morton and a direct descendant of William Henry Harrison, 
ninth president of the United States. His father and mother crossed the plains 
to California in 1852.
  Mr. Morton was educated in the public schools of Southern California and 
Orange County Academy. In 1906 he married Eugenie McCalister of Salem, Ore., 
and they have one son, Robert D. Morton, a student at Punahou. Mr. Morton 
belong to the Elks, Modern Woodmen of America, the Commercial and Rotary Clubs 
and the Chamber of Commerce.


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