Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....West, W. Leslie June 30, 1871 - 
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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

W. LESLIE WEST, Expert Accountant. With three years’ experience as a municipal 
auditor in New South Wales, Australia, and nine years in the sugar industry, 
both in the office and field, with the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. in the Fiji 
Islands, W. Leslie West arrived in Hawaii on Dec. 8, 1903, and immediately 
joined the Ewa Plantation Co. as assistant bookkeeper.
  After more than four years at Ewa, he became head bookkeeper of the Wailuku 
Sugar Co., Maui, for seven years, and for two years held a similar position 
with A. W. Carter of the Parker Ranch, Hawaii. He is now accountant for the 
Hawi Mill & Plantation Co., and other Hind interests at Hawi, Hawaii. He is 
licensed to practise as a notary public in the district courts and, before 
coming to Hawaii, was assistant cashier of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., in 
Yakima, Wash., for two years.
  Born in New South Wales on June 30, 1871, Mr. West is the son of Thomas and 
Elizabeth (Smith) West. His education was obtained in the public schools of 
Australia and from private tutors. On Feb. 19, 1890, he married Edith 
Valentine and they had two daughters, Valerie and Dorothy. On Sept. 30, 1905, 
Mr. West married Louise Mengler and they have four children, Alice, Nelson, 
Rodney and Eleanor. Mr. West is a 30th degree Scottish Rite Mason.


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