Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Tarleton, Albert Henry April 15, 1874 - ************************************************ 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 10, 2012, 5:53 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist ALBERT HENRY TARLETON, Executive. Albert H. Tarleton, secretary-treasurer of the Association of Hawaiian Pineapple Canners, is a descendant of an old New England family that settled in Massachusetts in 1680. Born in San Jose, Calif., April 15, 1874, Mr. Tarleton is the son of George Washington and Jennie Maria (Brierly) Tarleton. He was educated in the public schools of San Jose and the Garden City Business College, and worked on his father’s fruit ranch until 1897, when he came to Honolulu on a sailing vessel for his health. The following year Mr. Tarleton returned to Hawaii to make his home here and entered the employ of the Oahu Railway & Land Co. For 17 years he remained with this firm, and from 1916 to 1918 was with the Honolulu Construction & Draying Co. In 1918 he joined the Hawaiian Pineapple Packers’ Association, now the Association of Hawaiian Pineapple Canners, as executive secretary. At present he is secretary- treasurer of the organization. In 1919, when local troops were being mustered out of World War service, Mr. Tarleton was demobilization secretary for the Young Men’s Christian Association. He is past president and secretary of the Rotary Club, and a former director of the Y.M.C.A. and the Commercial Club. Mr. Tarleton married Frances Belle Dutot of San Francisco in 1899, and they have two children, Colby Dutot Tarleton, civil engineer, who was graduated from Stanford University in 1924, and Frances Erma Tarleton, now Mrs. Ezra Crane, who became physical director of McKinley High School following her graduation from the Boston School of Physical Education. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/tarleton579bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb