- "Hawaii, Births and Christenings, 1852-1933:
Name: John Troup Moir, Jr Gender: Male Birth Date: 23 May 1894
Birthplace: ONOMEA, HI, Hawaii Father's Name: John T Moir Mother's Name: Louisa Silver Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C00870-5 System Origin: Hawaii-EASy Source Film Number: 1031541 Reference Number: Bk 39 cn 9610
Source Citation: "Hawaii, Births and Christenings, 1852-1933," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWSS-WRR : accessed 23 July 2012), Louisa Silver in entry for John Troup Moir, Jr, 1894.
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- Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/moirjr158gbs.txt
JOHN TROUP MOIR, JR., Plantation Manager. A career in Hawaii?s great sugar industry was the natural heritage of John T. Moir, Jr., manager of the Koloa
Sugar Co., Koloa, Kauai, since November, 1922, for he was born and reared on a plantation and his father, J. T. Moir, Sr., has been manager of the Onomea Sugar Co., Hawaii, for almost thirty years.
The younger Moir, son of John T. and Louisa (Silver) Moir, was born at Onomea on May 23, 1894. He was educated in the public schools and at Punahou
Academy, Honolulu, and was graduated from Cornell University, where he majored in agriculture in preparation for his life work.
Returning to Hawaii from college, Mr. Moir served as assistant agriculturist of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters? Association experiment station from Aug.,
1916, until Nov., 1918; was overseer of the Kihei division of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., at Puunene, Maui, from Nov., 1918, until May, 1922,
and then spent six months as assistant manager of the Pioneer Mill Co. at Lahaina.
Appointed manager of the Koloa Sugar Co. in Nov., 1922, Mr. Moir had reached this responsible position at the age of 28, six years after his entry into the
industry.
In addition to other business interest, Mr. Moir is a director of the Garden Island Motors Co., Ltd., of Lihue, Kauai, and is an active supporter of
community development and welfare work.
Mr. Moir married Gertrude Mae Fisher of Philadelphia, Pa., on June 24, 1916. They have two children, John T. Moir, 3rd, and Mildred Mar Moir. Mr. Moir is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Cornell Club of Hawaii.
File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/moirjr158gbs.txt
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