Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Ohrt, Frederick  
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

FREDERICK OHRT, Civil Engineer. As chief engineer of the Honolulu Water and 
Sewer Commission, which office he assumed on July 1, 1925, Frederick Ohrt will 
have supervision of the most important engineering projects yet undertaken by 
the city. Also, in this position he returns to public service, where much of 
his professional career has been spent.
  While city and county engineer of Honolulu, Mr. Ohrt was in charge of the 
preparation of plans and specifications for the Kaimuki improvement project, 
the largest of the kind authorized in Hawaii, and aided also in the 
development of roads, making plans for the Oahu belt road, or Kamehameha 
Highway, from the foot of the Pali to Waiahole, and for the Kakaako 
improvement district.
  Resigning as city and county engineer on Dec. 31, 1923, Mr. Ohrt became 
consulting engineer for Libby, McNeill & Libby and until accepting his present 
post was actively engaged in the development of that corporation’s vast 
pineapple properties on the island of Molokai, with specific relation to 
harbor and transportation problems.
  Born at Spreckelsville, Maui, Mr. Ohrt is the son of Peter G. and Bessie 
Ohrt. He received his early education at St. Louis College, Honolulu, and was 
graduated from Cornell University, C. E., 1911, later taking post graduate 
work at Harvard Technical College.
  Mr. Ohrt started professional work in 1911, going at that time to South 
America where he was associated with the Madeira Mamore Railroad. Upon his 
return to Honolulu in 1913, he joined the engineering staff of the Waiahole 
Water Co. Appointed assistant city and county engineer of Honolulu in 1913, he 
held that office until 1917, when he was made sanitary engineer for the 
Territorial Board of Health. From July, 1918, to January, 1919, Mr. Ohrt was 
absent from Honolulu, with the public health service in Boston, Mass., and 
returned to Honolulu as sanitary engineer for the Board of Health. He was re-
appointed assistant city and county engineer in August, 1919, and in March, 
1920, was made city engineer.
  He married Desmond Kelly in Honolulu, June 3, 1916. Mr. Ohrt is a member of 
the University and Oahu Country clubs, the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the 
American Society of Civil Engineers and Honolulu Chapter of the American 
Association of Engineers.


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