Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Tulloch, George Pressly August 25, 1858 - 
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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

GEORGE PRESSLY TULLOCH, Business Man and Lawyer. For more than thirty-five 
years George P Tulloch had charge of telephonic communications on the island 
of Hawaii until he retired from that field in 1921 to engage in business for 
himself as a commission and insurance agent at Kohala, Hawaii.
  Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Aug. 25, 1858, the son of George P. and Jessie 
(McKay) Tulloch, he was educated in public and private schools in Aberdeen and 
London. He was a sailor apprentice on Aberdeen White Star Line sailing ships 
from 1869 to 1872, when he ran away in Sydney to sail the Australian coast for 
two years as acting second officer. He was a boundary rider, Murrundi Sheep 
station, for two years, leaving for San Francisco, Feb. 10, 1876. The next two 
years he spent with whaling expeditions in the Artic Ocean, and was employed 
by the Pacific Coast Steam Navigation Co., 1877-1878. Mr. Tulloch then took up 
telegraph and telephone engineering with the Western Union Telegraph Co., 1878-
1879, and the Pacific Bell & Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1879-1885.
  He arrived in Hilo, Sept. 9, 1885, as manager of the Hilo-Hawaii Telephone 
and Telegraph Co., serving until he organized the Kohala Telephone Co., Ltd., 
Hawaii, June 1, 1887. He was manager, secretary-treasurer and a director of 
this concern until Jan. 1, 1920, when he sold out to the Hawaii Telephone Co., 
but was retained as district superintendent until he retired on Aug. 3, 1921, 
to engage in business and the practise of law.
  Mr. Tulloch has been a notary public since 1888; he was chairman, board of 
tax appeals court, West Hawaii, for about 20 years; chairman of the commission 
for private ways and water rights, West Hawaii, 20 years; and chairman West 
Hawaii Board of Registration for 16 years prior to 1910 when the Great 
Register was opened. He is a Republican in politics, having cast his first 
presidential ballot in 1884 for James G. Blaine. He is a Mason, Shriner and 
Elk.
  Mr. Tulloch married Clara Louise Wing, June 4, 1889, and they have one 
child, Martha K., now Mrs. W. L. S. Williams of Hilo.


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