Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Olstad, Hjalmar June 2, 1882 - 
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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

HJALMAR OLSTAD, Engineer. Hjalmar Olstad, superintendent of the Waiahole Water 
Co., and civil engineer for the Oahu Sugar Co., Ltd., was born in Christiania, 
Norway, June 2, 1882, the son of Amund Gudmund and Marie (Alquist) Olstad, and 
was educated at a private high school in Christiania, nine years, and at the 
Royal Naval Academy, five years, at Horten, Norway, where he was graduated and 
commissioned a lieutenant of the Navy in 1904. He served as a lieutenant of 
the Navy in Norway until 1905, when he left for the Straits Settlements and 
the Federated Malay States and engaged in general engineering until 1908.
  Coming to Hawaii from the Orient in 1909, he was with the Hawaiian Sugar 
Co., Kauai, 1909-11; assistant engineer with Jorgen Jorgensen, 1911-12; with 
the Hilo Railroad Co., 1912-1913, and was with Jorgen Jorgensen, 1913-16, as 
resident engineer in the construction of the Waiahole water tunnels, the 
greatest hydraulic engineering work yet accomplished in Hawaii. In 1916 he was 
made superintendent of the Waiahole Water Co. and later was also appointed 
civil engineer for the Oahu Sugar Co.
  Mr. Olstad is a member of Hawaiian Lodge No. 21, F. & A.M.; Honolulu 
Commandery, Knights Templar, and a Shriner (Aloha Temple). He is a member of 
the American Association of Engineers. Mr. Olstad married Lilian Edith Fluno 
of Oakland, Calif., on June 22, 1918, and they have three children, Eleanor 
Marie, born April 8, 1919; Norman Jennings, Aug. 7, 1921, and Frances Fluno 
Olstad, Nov. 13, 1922.


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