Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....West, Frank H. February 19, 1886 - 
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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

FRANK H. WEST, Engineer. Beginning his career in Hawaii as an engineer on the 
construction of the great drydock at the Pearl Harbor navy yard, Oahu, Frank 
H. West remained in the islands to become manager of the Hilo branches of the 
Hawaiian Dredging Co. and the Hawaiian Contracting Co., a position he has held 
since 1919.
  Born in Lancaster, Ky., Feb. 19, 1886, he is the son of Robert R. and Martha 
(Roberts) West. He obtained his education at the University of Michigan, 
entered government service and was attached to the United States Geological 
Survey from 1908 to 1910. The next two years he was associated with James 
Stewart & Co. in New York and Canada, but left in 1912 to enter the employ of 
Barclay, Parson and Klapp, at Havana, Cuba, where he remained until 1914, when 
he came to Hawaii and became associated with the Hawaiian Dredging Co. at 
Pearl Harbor, remaining there until the drydock was completed. He assisted in 
the construction of the breakwater at Hilo in 1918 and 1919, when he was 
appointed to his present position.
  He married Cora M. Johnson in Honolulu, Dec. 7, 1915, and they have two 
children, Elizabeth Roberts and Margaret Boals West. Mr. West is an associated 
member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a member of Kilauea Lodge 
No. 330, F. & A.M., and Hilo Lodge No. 759, B.P.O. Elks; a director of the 
Hilo Chamber of Commerce and Yacht Club and a member of the Theta Delta Chi 
fraternity.


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