Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Webster, James February 7, 1857 - 
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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

JAMES WEBSTER, Plantation Manager. James Webster, who in a decade of service 
in the Hawaiian sugar industry, rose to the position of manager of Pepeekeo 
plantation, Island of Hawaii, which he has held since 1904, has been a leader 
in the development of ways and means for the conservation of crop residues 
from Hawaiian plantations, a work which has added vast sums to the industrial 
wealth of the Territory.
  Born at Garioch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Feb. 7, 1857, the son of James and 
Barbara (Neil) Webster, he received a common school education and as manager 
of a farm in Scotland for eighteen years gained experience in agriculture 
which was of great value in his later career in Hawaii.
  Coming to the islands in 1893, Mr. Webster became a field luna on Onomea 
plantation, being advanced to team luna the next year. From 1896 to 1900 he 
was head overseer at Paukaa plantation and held the same position at Papaikou 
plantation from 1900 to 1904, when he was elevated to his present post as 
manager of Pepeekeo plantation.
  Mr. Webster married Mary Ann Patterson, Nov. 2, 1895, at Waiakea, Hawaii. 
They have four children, J. Neil Patterson, Mary Louisa, Christina Janet and 
John J. Grace Webster. Mr. Webster is a member of Hilo Lodge No. 330, F. & A. 
M., and Aloha Temple of the Shrine.


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