Manlapit came to Hawaii in 1909 as a young, migrant laborer and worked as a plantation laborer at Hamakua Mill Company in the sugar fields of the Big Island, and later on moved to Oahu.
Manlapit came to Hawaii in 1909 as a young, migrant laborer and worked at Hamakua Mill Company. In Hawaii, he started in the sugar fields of the Big Island, and later on moved to Oahu.