Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Naquin, Walter P. August 22, 1883 - ************************************************ 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 18, 2011, 6:49 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist WALTER P. NAQUIN, Plantation Manager. A specialist in sugar chemistry and agriculture, Walter P. Naquin has been associated with the primary industry of Hawaii for the past score of years and has been manager of the Honokaa Sugar Co., and Pacific Sugar Mill Co., and superintendent of the Hawaiian Irrigation Co. for the past decade. Born Aug. 22, 1883, at Thibodaux, Louisiana, he is the son of Lovincy and Mary (Lasseigne) Naquin, his father’s family having come to Louisiana in 1775. He was educated at the Louisiana State University, B.S., 1907, and the Audubon Sugar School, New Orleans, La. Mr. Naquin was chemist at the Audubon School in 1907 and 1908, when he removed to Hawaii and became field chemist and agriculturist for the Olaa Sugar Co., Hawaii, remaining until 1911. He was assistant agriculturist, Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association Experiment Station, 1911-1914, and was agriculturist from 1914 to 1916. In the latter year he was appointed to his present positions. He married Ethel Ambrosia Keating in Honolulu Oct. 6, 1915. They have three children, Walter Pierre, Howard Ambrose and Marjorie Ethel Naquin. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/naquin432bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb