Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Woolley, Ralph Edwin March 4, 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

RALPH EDWIN WOOLLEY, Contracting Engineer. Establishing himself in the 
contracting business in Honolulu at the beginning of the present period of 
repaid industrial and commercial development, R. E. Woolley in recent years 
has handled many of the most important construction projects in Hawaii.
  The new home of the Bank of Bishop & Co. and the Bishop Trust Co. was 
erected by Mr. Woolley, who also had the contract for the concrete 
construction work on the new Castle & Cooke building. Among other important 
works, he has had big contracts at the Pearl Harbor naval base; he built the 
Kahului conveyor system, which handles practically all the sugar shipped from 
the Island of Maui; the wharf and sheds for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation 
Co. at Pier 26, the Hawaiian Electric power plant building and reconstructed 
the Kuhio wharf at Hilo.
  His most important achievement thus far, however, was the building of the 
Mormon Temple at Laie, declared by competent critics to be one of the most 
beautiful edifices in America. From 1916 to 1918 Mr. Woolley was engaged on 
this building, which will forever stand as a monument to the untiring zeal and 
devotion of Samuel Edwin Woolley, his father, who was then president of the 
Latter Day Saints’ Hawaiian Mission.
  When Mr. Woolley came to Hawaii from his home in Utah to join his father at 
the Mormon colony at Laie, he was engaged on a survey of water resources, 
following this work for a year until it was decided to erect the temple.
  Previous to Mr. Woolley’s arrival in Hawaii he was engineer in charge of 
construction on the Lincoln Highway in Utah, and he also made a power survey 
of Salt Lake City for the Utah Power Co.
  After completing the public school course in Salt Lake City, Mr. Woolley 
attended the University of Utah, being graduated from the engineering 
department with the degree of B.S. in 1914.
  He is a member of the Honolulu Chapter, American Association of Engineers, 
the Utah Academy of Science, the General Contractors’ Association of Hawaii, 
University Club, Commercial Club, Oahu Country Club and the Beta Theta Pi 
fraternity. In 1921 he was appointed chairman of the Public Utilities 
Commission of Hawaii, an office he still holds.
  Born in Grantsville, Utah, March 4, 1886, Mr. Woolley is the son of Samuel 
Edwin and Alice (Rowberry) Woolley. In 1920 he married Romania Hyde of Salt 
Lake and they have one child, Virginia Jeanette Woolley.


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