Albert Horner

HORNER, ALBERT, agriculturist, Honolulu: born in Alameda County, Cal. Aug. 7. 1863; son of John Mears and Elizabeth (Imlay) Homer: common school education: married Florence Winter in Honolulu. Jan. 20. 1891; three sons, Albert, William Foster, John Mears. Came to Hawaiian Islands with parents 1879; engaged with father in cultivation of sugar cane at Spreckelsville. Maui. until 1882, then started the Kukaiau Plantation, district of Hamakua, Hawaii; engaged in different capacities on the plantation and as general manager to 1911; one of the organizers. Hawaiian Canneries Co., Ltd., (organized 1913), and president and general manager since organization; inventor of number of agricultural implements for cultivation of sugar cane in general use throughout the world, including a wire rope transportation system for transporting cane from tields to mill, in use on several Hawaiian plantations; elected to Hawaiian legislature, sessions 1890 and 1892; has held many public appointive positions of trust during the monarchial, provisional and republican governments; was chairman Hawaiian Loan Fund Commission, disbursing $600.000 fund; commissioned captain Officers Reserve Corps, Quartermaster Section, U. S. Army, June 1, 1917; appointed Territorrial Sugar Expert as adviser to homesteaders for better land

cultivation. July 1. 1919. Member of Masonic order, B. P. O. Elks, Pacific and Country clubs and Honolulu Chamber of Commerce.