Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Harrison, Frederick November 9, 1859 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

FREDERICK HARRISON, Contractor and Builder. A resident for almost fifty years, 
Frederick Harrison, M.B.E., contractor and builder, has had a long and 
eventful career in Hawaii. Not alone in his business as a contractor, but as a 
central figure in colorful historical incidents, Mr. Harrison has been in 
close touch with the commercial and political progress of the islands.
  Arriving in Honolulu in 1879, when the sugar industry was getting well under 
way as the chief wealth producer of the islands, Mr. Harrison engaged in the 
erection of sugar mills, brick smokestacks and setting of boilers on the 
following plantations: Kaalaea plantation, Oahu; Heeia plantation, Oahu; Oahu 
plantation, Oahu; Waimanalo plantation, Oahu; Hamakuapoko plantation, Maui; 
Kipahulu plantation, Maui; Waiakea Sugar Co., Hawaii; Kapaa Sugar Co., Kauai; 
Kilauea Sugar Co., Kauai, and Kealia Sugar Co., Kauai.
  He built the first furnaces, (Jarvis Patent) for burning wet trash direct 
from the mill, at Lihue, Kauai (under Mr. Kopke, engineer), dispensing with 
trash houses formerly used. He has erected many large buildings and residences 
in Honolulu and at other island points, among these being the J. B. Castle 
residence, now the Elk’s Club, at Waikiki. He was contractor for the American 
Factors, formerly H. Hackfeld, Building; Bank of Hawaii, O’Neil, E. O. Hall, 
Oahu Railway Depot, A. L. Smith, Pacific Hardware, Central Custom House, 
Republic, Foundation for the Central Union Church, Harrison, Ehlers, Reservoir 
and Pumping Plant, Fort Shafter, Hilo Masonic Hall and Hilo American Factors 
and numerous other buildings.
  In recent years he has divided his time between Honolulu and Lake County, 
California, where he has extensive agricultural interests. He was a former 
director of the McBryde Sugar Plantation Co.
  Although closely identified with the development of the Territory, Mr. 
Harrison’s career has been marked by short periods of absence from Hawaii. He 
went to Australia in the 80’s and after following the contracting business 
there returned to Honolulu.
  He was a member of the Honolulu Rifles during the Gibson and Wilcox Revolts. 
He was also a member of the Volunteer Fire Engine Company, No. 1, and was 
assistant foreman of Pacific Hose Company, No. 1, under John Nott, Chief 
Engineer of Honolulu Fire Department.
  During the late uprising of 1895, Mr. Harrison was arrested, imprisoned and 
without trial exiled for two years as a supposed insurrectionist and Royalist. 
He with his family left for San Francisco until permission to return 
voluntarily and unconditionally, was granted by F. M. Hatch, minister for 
foreign affairs of the provisional government, at that time.
  A subject of Great Britain, Mr. Harrison was active in British war work in 
Honolulu during the World War. He organized the British Club in 1914 and was 
its president for a number of years. During the war period he served as one of 
the executives of the British Recruiting Commission in 1917, enlisting more 
than 200 men for service in British and Canadian forces. He was honored by His 
Majesty, King George V, for his services, by conferring him a member of the 
Order of the British Empire.
  Born at Snenton, Nottingham, England, Nov. 9, 1859, Mr. Harrison is the son 
of Samuel and Sarah Ann (Parker) Harrison. The Harrison family removed to New 
York where Mr. Harrison attended the public schools and high school of 
Westchester County, New York State. Before coming to Hawaii he was engaged in 
contracting in San Francisco from 1877 to 1879.
  Mr. Harrison married Emma Victoria Nott in Honolulu, January 29, 1885, a 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nott. Her father during the insurrection in 1895 
was a member of the Advisory Council of The Provisional Legislature and 
subsequently a member of the Privy Council of the Republic of Hawaii.
  Mr. Harrison’s family now surviving are: Mrs. Emma Victoria Payne, of 
Queensland, Mrs. Selina Margaret Gonsalves, Wilfred Ernest, Ethel, Mrs. Elsie 
Muriel Wadsworth and Irene Elizabeth, all of Honolulu, also four 
grandchildren, Fred Wadsworth, Harrison Clifford Gonsalves, Marguerite 
Elizabeth Gonsalves and Irene Payne.


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