Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Rankin, Guy Fawkes November 19, 1879 - 
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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

GUY FAWKES RANKIN, Assistant Plantation Manager. Guy F. Rankin, civil engineer 
and, since Nov. 21, 1919, assistant manager of the Hawaiian Sugar Co., 
Makaweli, Kauai, was born in Portland, Ore., Nov. 19, 1879, the son of John 
and Mary (Ebinger) Rankin. He was educated at Peralta Hall preparatory school 
and entered the University of California with the class of 1904, but came to 
Hawaii and on Dec. 24, 1901, joined the Hawaiian Sugar Co. as a civil 
engineer. He held this position until June 1, 1918, when he was appointed head 
overseer of Division No. 1 of the plantation, becoming assistant manager a 
year and a half later.
  In the construction of the great Olokele irrigation ditch, Mr. Rankin was 
assistant engineer from 1901 to January, 1904, when he took charge of 
operations and completed the project the following July. Mr. Rankin married 
Ida Faye l’Orange on Jan. 2, 1915. He belongs to Kauai Lodge No. 589, F. & 
A.M., and is a fraternity man.


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