Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Williamson, Alexander John November 9, 1876 - 
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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

ALEXANDER JOHN WILLIAMSON, Civil Engineer and Architect. For more than a 
quarter of a century Alexander John Williamson has served the residents of the 
Island of Hawaii as road engineer, civil engineer, and in other public and 
private capacities connected with the improvement of the island, and has the 
distinction of having designed and erected the first all-concrete buildings on 
the Big Island.
  Born Nov. 9, 1876, in Fortrose, Ross-shire, Scotland, he is the son of John 
and Annie (Williamson) Williamson. In June, 1892, he graduated from the 
Fortrose Academy with honors in English, mathematics, latin, astronomy and 
physiography. He then entered the road engineer’s office, Black Isle District, 
Scotland, remaining there for a year, when he became articled to George Gordon 
& Co., civil engineers and architects, Inverness, Scotland. He resigned this 
association in 1898 to come to Hawaii, arriving early in 1899 and locating in 
the Hamakua district of the Island of Hawaii. He was road engineer for that 
district from 1899 until 1902; then he engaged in private practise in Hamakua 
and Hilo.
  In 1908 he was appointed to the position of civil engineer for the Honokaa 
Sugar Co. and Pacific Sugar Mill, at the time these plantations began to 
receive irrigation and fluming water from the Hawaiian Irrigation Co., and in 
1914, when the work connected with this installation had been established, he 
resigned and reentered private practise, which he has carried on since. From 
1915 to 1917 he was chief engineer for the Hawaii Loan Fund Commission. For a 
number of years past he has been consulting engineer to the Hawaii 
Consolidated Railway, Ltd., for whom he designed the new Wailuku river railway 
bridge, which is now being erected under his supervision. In engineering he 
has done extensive railway, road, ditch, flume and reservoir work, and in 
architecture has designed and built a large number of all kinds of buildings 
throughout the Big Island.
  He is a member of the Hilo Chamber of Commerce, Kilauea Lodge No. 330, F. & 
A.M.; Hilo Lodge No. 759, B.P.O.E.; and is secretary of the Hilo Civilian 
Rifle Club. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1904. In Honolulu, on 
Aug. 9, 1902, Mr. Williamson married Miss Janetta Sarah MacKenzie Stimson, who 
was born in Sydney, Australia, and brought up in Scotland and Boston, U.S.A. 
They had four children: Janetta Annie, Margaret Katherine and John Stimson, 
alive, and Harry Ogilvie, who died in Hilo on March 30, 1919.


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