Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Winston, Emmet Claiborne 1848 - 
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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

EMMET CLAIBORNE WINSTON, Capitalist. Leaving his home in Illinois when a boy 
of 15, Emmet C. Winston was one of that group of early-day California settlers 
of covered wagon fame. He drove four mules across the plains in a long train 
of forty wagons, and when the expedition reached its destination at 
Marysville, Calif., he was penniless and had to walk forty-two miles to 
Sacramento to seek employment.
  Arriving in the West in 1863, Mr. Winston spent the next few years doing 
general ranch work and at odd employment throughout the Sacramento Valley. He 
freighted one trip from Sacramento to Virginia City, Nevada, made several 
trips on a schooner running on the Sacramento River, and, after reading 
Charles Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast,” answered the call of the sea and 
sailed for several years aboard the schooner “Anne Sophia” from San Francisco 
to Puget Sound and to Mexican ports. In 1867, when Alaska was purchased from 
Russia by the United States, he sailed to the Bering Sea and fur stations 
aboard the old steamer “St. Paul.”
  Leaving the sea, he joined the American Sewing Machine Co. in San Francisco 
in 1874 as a salesman and adjuster, and in 1877 was sent by that firm to 
Hawaii as its agent to make an important collection. He saw the opportunity to 
build up a trade in California hogs, and for the next twenty years he engaged 
in the business of shipping hogs from the coast to the islands. Together with 
John Ena, Captain Godfrey, F. F. Porter, Col. Geo. F. M. McLeod, William W. 
McCandless and Gilbert J. Waller he formed the Hawaiian Pork Packing Co., and 
in 1890 he started the first steam laundry in Honolulu. Later this concern 
sold its machinery and business to the late John Alfred Magoon, organizer of 
the American Sanitary Laundry, Ltd.
  He was one of the pioneers in the pineapple industry and with others 
organized the Honolulu Pineapple Co. at Pupukea, Waialua and was president of 
the concern until it sold out to the Macfarlane and Robinson interests.
  For several years Mr. Winston was in business with Charles J. Fishel, 
operating a general merchandise store in Wailuku, Maui. He is also one of the 
founders of the Hawaiian Tuna Packing Co., Ltd., and is its president. 
Recently he acquired the business of the Seattle Building Co., and is now 
engaged in developing that concern, and is president of the Honolulu Fishing 
CO., Ltd. He acquired extensive realty holdings, and in 1887 built the Winston 
building on North Hotel street.
  Mr. Winston has also served the Territory in a public capacity. He was a 
member of the lower house for two sessions during the Republic of Hawaii, and 
a member of the council of state during the same period. For ten years he was 
a member of the Board of Health, and president for one term. He was also judge 
of the tax appeal court for five years. During the Revolution that resulted in 
the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy he was a member of the Sharpshooters.
  Born in Richmond, Va., in 1848, Mr. Winston is the son of Claiborne and 
Elizabeth (Evans) Winston. His family came from England in the early 
seventeenth century and settled in Virginia. He is a Mason and a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce.



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