Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Williams, Benjamin 
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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

BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, Ranch Manager. As manager of the ranch department of the 
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., on the Island of Maui, a responsible 
position which he has occupied for many years, Benjamin Williams has won wide 
recognition as an agriculturist and stockman because of his successful 
experiments in the utilization of sugar mill by-products, such as molasses and 
cane tops, for stock feed. All of the extensive ranch and dairy properties of 
the H. C. & S. Co. are under the direction of Mr. Williams.
  First coming to Hawaii in February, 1903, to visit his brother, J. N. S. 
Williams, then at Puunene, Maui, and now an executive of Theo H. Davies & Co., 
Ltd., Mr. Williams, actuated by a natural bent for agriculture, decided to 
remain in the islands and engage in plantation work. For two years he was 
employed at Kahuku plantation as a section overseer and in 1905 joined the 
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., serving as team boss, field boss, timekeeper 
and assistant bookkeeper until he was appointed to his present position.
  Mr. Williams first began work in 1882 in the Canadian postal service, where 
he remained until 1884. From 1890 to 1903 he was a notary public for the 
province of British Columbia, from 1891 to 1899 he served as secretary of the 
board of public school trustees in Victoria, and from 1883 until 1901 he was 
an active member of the Canadian volunteer militia, both as a private and a 
commissioned officer.
  Born in Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, Wales, Mr. Williams is the son of 
Benjamin and Elizabeth Ann (Spencer) Williams. He attended private schools in 
Cardiff, Wales, the public schools of New Brunswick, Canada, and the high 
school in Victoria, British Columbia. At the completion of his education he 
passed with honors in bookkeeping and précis writing the qualifying 
examination for the civil service of Canada. In 1907 he married Elena MacGoun, 
daughter of Lachlan Campbell MacGoun of Cambelltown, Scotland.
  Mr. Williams has been a Mason for thirty-nine years, obtaining the rank of 
past master under three grand jurisdiction, is a past grand senior warden of 
the Grand Lodge of British Columbia, a member of Columbia Royal Arch Chapter 
of Victoria and of Western Gate Preceptory of Knight Templars, Victoria, and 
is a past first principal of the Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland. He is a 
member of the Republican Precinct Club of Puunene, Maui Chamber of Commerce 
and Maui County Fair and Racing Association. He became a naturalized citizen 
in May, 1917, at Wailuku, Maui.



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