Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Renton, James Lewis January 22, 1889 - 
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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

JAMES LEWIS RENTON, Mill Superintendent. James Lewis Renton is the second son 
of the late George F. Renton, S., for years manager of Ewa plantation, to make 
his life work the development of the sugar industry.
  When but a child he was interested in his father’s activities in connection 
with sugar raising, and he began his own work at Ewa plantation in 1912 as a 
shop helper. He was educated at the mechanical engineering department of 
Cornell University, where he was graduated in 1912. Mastering the mechanical 
end of plantation management, Mr. Renton advanced through the positions of 
night engineer, shop foreman and chief engineer, until, in 1920, he was named 
mill superintendent of Ewa. He has held that position through a period of the 
greatest production Ewa has ever known.
  During the World War period, 1918-19, Mr. Renton was a captain of infantry 
in the United States army.
  Mr. Renton was born in Hamakua, Hawaii, Jan. 22, 1889. His mother was Kate 
(Lewis) Renton. In 1920 he married Meda Menardi in Honolulu, and their two 
children are James Menardi and Margaret Renton.
  Among educational and fraternal organizations in which Mr. Renton holds 
memberships are the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Masons, 
Shriners, Commercial and University Clubs of Honolulu, the Association of 
Hawaiian Sugar Technologists and the Cornell Club of Hawaii.


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