Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Sloggett, Henry Digby September 18, 1876 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com January 5, 2012, 3:38 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist HENRY DIGBY SLOGGETT, Agriculturist. Twenty-eight years of service in Hawaii brought to Henry D. Sloggett the position of assistant manager of Grove Farm Co., Ltd., Lihue, Kauai, which he has held since 1920, numerous offices in other concerns and various civic honors. Born in England, Sept. 18, 1876, to Dr. Henry Charles and Annie (Ellery) Sloggett, he came to the United States with his parents in 1883. He attended schools in various parts of America, including the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. His entrance into business was in the salmon industry of Puget Sound district in the State of Washington. He came to Hawaii in 1896 and was engaged by the Lihue Plantation Co., where he remained until 1900 when he left to join the staff of the Maui Agricultural Co. at Paia, Maui. He resigned this post to accept the assistant managership of G. N. Wilcox’s Grove Farm plantation in 1920. Mr. Sloggett is manager of the Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital for tubercular patients at Kealia, Kauai; director of the Lihue Soda Co., Ltd.; director and secretary of the Kauai Telephone Co.; director of the Garden Island Publishing Co.; treasurer of the Grove Farm Co., Ltd., and Lihue Hospital, and a member of the advisory boards of Lihue Branch Bank of Hawaii, Ltd., and the Lihue branch of the Salvation Army. He is a member of the Vestry of the Kauai Episcopal Church and a trustee of Lihue Church property. He also carries memberships in the Kauai Chamber of Commerce, the Pacific and Oahu Country clubs of Honolulu, the Wailua Golf Club of Kauai, Kauai Fish and Gun Club, and is a member of the executive committee of the Territorial Y.M.C.A. and of the board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, and has served as district fire warden for Puna and including Wailua, Island of Kauai. He was commissioned a captain in M. Co., 3rd Regiment, Hawaiian Infantry, National Guard, on April 19, 1917. He is a 32nd degree Mason and a member of Aloha Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Sloggett married Etta Wilcox, daughter of the Hon. S. W. Wilcox, at Lihue on June 3, 1904, and they have five children, Richard, Margaret, Dorothea, Edith and Arthur. Mr. Sloggett is a naturalized citizen of the United States. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/sloggett548bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb