Talk:Sugar plantations in Hawaii

This article is biased in the environmental section. The sources cited are mostly biased, and they are improperly referenced. Very dubious. 66.27.221.208 (talk) 10:23, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

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• John C. McColgan (1814-1890)
• Hugh McCorriston (1836-1926)
• Daniel McCorriston (1840-1927)

These men owned and operated the Kamalō Sugar Plantation on Molokai from 1873 until 1891. Their first known export of refined sugar to California was September 1884.

Sources

1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27029967/john_mccolgan_start_of_kamalo/
2. 1880-1881: The Hawaiian Kingdom Statistical and Commercial Directory and Tourist's Guide, https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/19432
3. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26367065/hugh_mccorriston_obituary_1926/
4. “Hawaii, Wills and Probate Records, 1822-1962,” database and digital images, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 11 January 2019), search for John McColgan, residing in Hawaii and died in 1890; Probate records, 1845-1900; indexes 1814-1917; Author: Hawaiian Islands. Circuit Court; Probate Place: Honolulu, Hawaii
5. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26256367/daniel_mccorriston_the_kamalo_sugar/
6. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27042820/john_mccolgan_middle_initial_is_c_not/

-- Lkdaue (talk) 18:16, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

I understand that the section and its large table is primarily sourced from the 'Portuguese Family History Collections Hawaii' website. Echoing the above "Additional Planters and Managers" comment on this talk page, I think that the information as presented may be incomplete. Specifically, per UH's HSPA Plantation Archives, there is no record of C. Brewer & Co. owning or operating the Kekaha Sugar Mill Co. or the Kekaha Sugar Company. The Big Five connection to those operations is Amfac's purchase of KSC in 1975.

Moreover, the list does not provide temporally-specific affiliation data. The Kekaha Sugar Mill Co. was subsumed by the Kekaha Sugar Company in 1900. As the text of the article notes, "many plantations were renamed when sold to or merged with another company." This page should be updated for specificity regarding the changing structures (and eventual conglomeration) of different plantations. Marking the section with a Refimprove tag until edits can be made. Ggonnemm (talk) 03:20, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Additionally, the entire section was added by an IP user in a single 3 hour window. Ggonnemm (talk) 03:29, 15 October 2025 (UTC)