Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Young, James L. July 11, 1867 - 
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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

JAMES L. YOUNG, Consulting Engineer. James L. Young, president and treasurer 
of the J. L. Young Engineering Co., Ltd., engineers and constructors, is, in 
the literal sense of the phrase, a builder of Hawaii, with a record of twenty 
years’ experience in this Territory and of having started here the work on all 
but one army post.
  A few years after Hawaii was annexed by the United States an extensive 
program was outlined by the military and naval authorities at Washington for 
making the Islands a strategic base in the Pacific and Mr. Young was selected 
to start the work.
  He built Fort Shafter and began the construction of Fort Ruger, Fort 
Kamehameha and Schofield Barracks. He remained in the government service until 
1910, when he resigned to organize the Lord-Young Engineering Co.
  Since he arrived in Honolulu in May, 1905, Mr. Young has had a big share of 
the work of preparing the Islands for army and navy activities and a rapidly 
increasing civilian population.
  Mr. Young designed and superintended the construction of the first two 
reinforced concrete fireproof buildings in Honolulu, the Pantheon Block at the 
corner of Fort and Hotel Sts. and the laboratory building of the Bishop 
Museum. Two of the larger projects completed by Mr. Young in the last few 
years are the five hangar buildings at Luke Field and the thirty-six ordnance 
buildings on Magazine Island, Pearl Harbor.
  He has recently completed work on the new library building at the University 
of Hawaii, and the first unit of the new Palama Settlement, consisting of five 
structures and a swimming tank. He built the Hawaiian Trust Co. building, the 
Honolulu Star-Bulletin building and the Library of Hawaii, the Administration 
building of the University of Hawaii, as well as other large structures in 
Honolulu, in all a record of forty-one buildings in the last three years.
  His professional work is largely confined to consultation, arbitration and 
appraisements.
  Mr. Young was born at California, Ky., July 11, 1867, the son of William L. 
and Appoline (Maddox) Young. He was educated in the grammar schools, the high 
school at Newport, Ky., the Clermont Academy, Clermontville, O., the 
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., and the University of Lebanon, Ohio.
  Following his graduation as a civil engineer, and architect, Mr. Young was 
connected with railroad construction work on the mainland until 1894, when he 
went into business for himself in Cincinnati, Ohio, as consulting engineer. In 
1899 he accepted an appointment from the United States government as an 
engineer in the civil service. He was connected with the remodeling of Public 
Buildings and Fortifications and the Sanitation of Havana, Cuba.
  Mr. Young married Valley Rose of Hamilton, O., on Nov. 7, 1895. They have 
two sons, Gordon See and Donn Dwyer Young.
  He is an Elk, a Mason, and a member of the Western Society of Engineers and 
the American Association of Engineers.


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