Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Rolph, Hosmer August 30, 1898 - 
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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

HOSMER ROLPH, Corporation Official. Although returning to San Francisco in 
March, 1925, after almost five years experience in the production end of the 
pineapple industry, Hosmer Rolph retains an intimate business connection with 
Hawaii as secretary of the Haiku Fruit & Packing Co., Ltd., and in his renewed 
association with that corporation’s San Francisco agency, the Griffith, Durney 
Co.
 Born in San Francisco, Aug. 30, 1898, the son of William Nicol and Helen 
Harriett (Hosmer) Rolph, Mr. Rolph was educated in the grammar schools and the 
California School of Mechanical Arts. During the World War he was in the 
United States army tank corps, July to December 5, 1918.
 Joining the Griffith, Durney Co. on Jan. 1, 1919, he was engaged in selling 
Hawaiian canned pineapples in San Francisco until June, 1920, and arrived in 
Honolulu July 1, of the latter year to enter the employ of the Haiku Fruit & 
Packing Co. on Maui. He was assistant cannery superintendent until Jan. 1, 
1923, when he became office manager and a director of the corporation. He was 
elected secretary in February, 1924. 
 Mr. Rolph is a member of Lodge Maui, No. 472, F. & A.M., the Honolulu bodies 
of the Scottish Rite, Aloha Temple, Mystic Shrine; and the Olympic Club of San 
Francisco. He married Dorothy C. Lindsay of Maui on Sept. 3, 1921, and they 
have one child, William Lindsay Rolph.


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