Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Renton, Allan March 27, 1894 - 
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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

ALLAN RENTON, Manufacturing Chemist. One of the younger business men of 
Honolulu, who has devoted his career to the development of the Hawaiian Gas 
Products, Ltd., engaged in making various commercial gases, is Allan Renton, 
secretary and treasurer of the company, and who also became manager on Nov. 
25, 1924.
  Mr. Allan Renton, a son of the late George F. Renton, Sr., manager of Ewa 
Plantation for many years, and Mrs. Kate (Lewis) Renton, was born at Kohala, 
Hawaii, March 27, 1894, and was educated at Oahu College and the University of 
Wisconsin, where he obtained his honorary B.A. degree in 1917, as the World 
War intervened before graduation and he gave his services as a cadet captain, 
training students to enter officers’ training camps.
  He later attended the first officers’ training camp at Schofield Barracks, 
was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the machine gun company 
of the 1st U. S. Infantry at Schofield, later leaving with the regiment for 
Camp Lewis. He had further service at Camp Perry, where he graduated from the 
Small Arms Firing School.
  At the close of the war, Mr. Renton began his business career with the 
Acetylene Light & Agency Co., Ltd., now the Hawaiian Gas Products, Ltd. The 
Company has made steady advancement in the manufacture of acetylene gas for 
the lighting of lighthouses, carbon dioxide for the carbonating of water, 
oxygen and acetylene for welding and all sorts of commercial uses. The company 
has facilities for manufacturing hydrogen gas for dirigibles, which may become 
a deciding factor in the establishing of commercial air lines between the 
American mainland and Hawaii.
  Mr. Renton holds membership in the Masons, Scottish Rite bodies, Phi Delta 
Theta fraternity, and Oahu Country Club.
  On November 8, 1923, he married Floria Lachmund of Seattle, daughter of 
former State Senator Louis Lachmund of Oregon, and the couple had one child, 
Floria Mavis Renton (deceased).


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