Gay & Robson, Inc. - Kai Chamber of Commerce

Contents:

• GAY ROBSON KMAKANI, HAWAII
• ISLAND HISTORY: FRANCIS GAY, -FOUNR OF GAY & ROBSON, INC.
• GAY AND ROBSON HAWAII

GAY ROBSON KMAKANI, HAWAII

Gay Robson Kmakani, Hawaii.

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ISLAND HISTORY: FRANCIS GAY, -FOUNR OF GAY & ROBSON, INC.

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About Gay Robson. Gay Robson, loted Kmakani, HI, is an energy plant that nverts energy to bulk electril power. Francis Gay (1852-1928), Ka‘i sugar planter, stock raiser and -founr of Gay &Robson, was born New Zealand, the son of Thomas Gay and Jane Sclair Gay.

Gay was also the grandson of Eliza Sclair, who purchased Ni‘ih 1864 om Kamehameha V and the 65, 000-acre Makaweli ahupua‘a om Prcs Victoria Kamamalu 1865.

GAY AND ROBSON HAWAII

Cir 1880, he formed a partnership wh his , Aubrey Robson, lled Gay &Robson, for the purpose of growg sugarne and raisg ttle. The partners also began plantg sugarne as Gay &Robson Sugar Plantatn on roughly 2, 000 acr at Makaweli and lg at the Makaweli Sugar Plantatn factory.

Other portns of Gay &Robson land was for ed for grazg. Francis Gay is believed to have been the last person rated wh a royal orr of Hawai‘i, when Queen Liliu‘okalani created him Knight Commanr of the Royal Orr of the Hawaiian Crown June 1892, an orr that was stuted by Kg Kalaka Feb. Gay was also a regnized thory on the Hawaiian language and island folklore, and wrote extensively on those subjects.

He and his wife, Alice Hart Gay, had one son, Francis Ernt Gay. Aubrey Robson eventually beme sole owner of Gay &Robson and Ni‘ih, and at the time of his ath 1936, his four sons — Sclair, Selwyn, Aylmer and Lter — managed the fay’s properti on Ka‘i and Ni‘ih. Sclair was charge of Gay &Robson Plantatn; Selwyn head Gay &Robson ttle ranch; the management of Ni‘ih was left to Aylmer Robson, while Lter managed fay properti on Ka‘i.