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Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wilcox, Albert Spencer May 24, 1844 - July 7, 1919
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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

ALBERT SPENCER WILCOX, Planter and Capitalist. A descendant of pioneer 
missionary stock, the son of Abner and Lucy E. (Hart) Wilcox, who came to 
Hawaii from Connecticut in 1837, carrying a message of Christian education, 
Albert S. Wilcox acquired extensive holdings on the island of Kauai, was a 
leading sugar planter for decades, and in later years devoted himself to the 
development of a fine stock ranch.
  Mr. Wilcox was born at Hilo, Hawaii, May 24, 1844. He was privately tutored 
at home during his boyhood, and his education was completed at Punahou, 
Honolulu. When a youth of nineteen he was associated with his brother, George 
N. Wilcox, in an early cane planting venture at Hanalei, Kauai, where his 
parents had long been stationed as missionaries. He then became manager of 
Hanamaulu plantation, Kauai, and started an independent sugar plantation at 
Waipa, Kauai, which was discontinued within a few years.
  Still later, Mr. Wilcox became a contracting planter for the Princeville 
plantation, and from 1877 to 1898 he raised sugar cane for the Hanamaulu mill. 
In 1898 he removed to Kilohana, Lihue, Kauai, and established there a stock 
ranch, where he lived until his death.
  Mr. Wilcox had large business interests aside from his Kauai holdings. At 
the time of his death he was president of the C. Brewer Estate, Ltd., and a 
director of the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., Kekaha Sugar Co., Lihue 
Plantation Co., Waianae Co., Home Insurance Co. of Honolulu, and the Selama-
Dindings Plantations, Ltd. He had extensive real estate holdings in Honolulu, 
including the Kauikeolani (Hawaiian Trust Co.) building and the Lewers & Cooke 
building.
  He was in public service as a member of the House of Representatives of the 
Kingdom of Hawaii from 1891 to 1892 and was a delegate to the constitutional 
convention of 1894. He was a member of the Pacific, Honolulu Ad and Oahu 
Country clubs and the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce. A liberal supporter of 
worthy charities, Mr. Wilcox founded the Sam Mahelona hospital at Kapaa, 
Kauai, for the treatment of tuberculosis, the institution being a memorial to 
a stepson, Samuel Mahelona. Another of his notable benefactions was the 
establishment of the Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital in Honolulu, where 
thousands of tiny sufferers have been restored to health and happiness. Mr. 
Wilcox also built the English Church at Lihue, Kauai, and made possible the 
erection of a number of other churches.
  On June 7, 1898, Mr. Wilcox married Emma Kauikeolani Napoleon Mahelona, then 
a teacher at Kawaiahao Seminary. His step-children were Ethel Kulamanu 
Mahelona, now Mrs. Gaylord P. Wilcox, whom he adopted and Samuel Hooker K. and 
Allen Clessen K. Mahelona.
  Mr. Wilcox died at his home on Kauai, July 7, 1919.


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