ISLAND HISTORY: Filipino sugar plantation immigrant Agapito Sadang

ISLAND HISTORY: Filipino sugar plantation immigrant Agapito Sadang

Born in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, in 1906, Agapito Sadang was recruited by the Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Association, and upon his arrival in 1926 at Honolulu aboard the ship “President Cleveland” he was assigned to Makee Sugar Co. of Kealia, Kauai. While employed at Makee, and later, Lihue Plantation, he resided at Camp 35, once located below the intersection Olohena and Kaapuni roads, Kapaa. In 1947, he married my wife’s grandmother, Rita Compos…