Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Rycroft, Walter Samuel February 2, 1884 - 
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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

WALTER SAMUEL RYCROFT, Manufacturer. Assuming the management of the Rycroft 
Arctic Soda Co. in 1908, upon the death of his father, Robert Rycroft, who 
established the concern in 1900, Walter S. Rycroft is now the executive head 
of the largest bottling works in the Territory.
  Robert Rycroft went to England to purchase machinery best suited to the 
manufacture of soda water when he founded the Rycroft company, which absorbed 
the Arctic Soda Works in 1913 and was incorporated under the name of Rycroft 
Artic Soda Co., Ltd. Two years later the company purchased the Consolidated 
Soda Works. The business has grown steadily, extending to all the islands of 
the group. The plant has a capacity of 10,000 bottles a day. Officials of the 
corporation are: president, A. J. Campbell; vice president, William Cullen; 
treasurer, W. H. Campbell, and secretary-manager, Walter Rycroft.
  Mr. Rycroft was born in Honolulu on Feb. 2, 1884, the son of Robert and 
Elizabeth (Campbell) Rycroft. He attended Punahou, and during his youth worked 
on his father’s coffee and cattle ranch on Hawaii. He then worked for more 
than a year for the Oahu Railway and Land Co., Ltd., and spent two years 
ranching in Montana before returning to Honolulu to take charge of the soda 
works.
  In 1917 Mr. Rycroft married Blanche Soper of Honolulu, and they have two 
children, Alice Gwendolyn and John Keith Rycroft. Mr. Rycroft is an Elk and a 
member of the Y.M.C.A., Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary, Oahu Country and 
Honolulu Auto clubs.


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