Honolulu County HI Archives Biographies.....Allen, Riley Harris April 30, 1884 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

Allen, Riley Harris: Editor, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

     Born April 30, 1884, Colorado City, Texas, son of Riley Harris and Anna
(Beck) Allen; married Suzanne McArdle, Seattle, Wash., Sept 6, 1910; member,
Honolulu Chamber of Commerce (director, 1926-27; first vice-president, 1928;
president, 1929), vice president Pacific Foreign Trade Council, 1929 —:
president Honolulu Advertising Club, 1930--; member various other civic
organizations; vice chairman Hawaii Chapter, American Red Cross; chairman,
vocational committee, Governor's advisory committee on education; member.
Veterans of Foreign Wars; Rotary. Honolulu Advertising, Oahu Country clubs: Beta
Theta Pi fraternity.

     Mr. Allen was educated in the grammar schools and Central High School,
Seattle; University of Washington (two years), and University of Chicago (Ph. B.
Litt., 1904). His first visit to Honolulu was in February, 1905, when he
remained eight months, and he returned in September, 1910, each time to join the
staff of the Evening Bulletin. He was with the Evening Bulletin and the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, 1905; Post-Intelligencer, news and sports staffs, 1908-9-10;
city editor, Honolulu Evening Bulletin, 1910-12; editor. Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
1912-18; American Red Cross Service in Siberia and Europe, 1918-21, and since
1921 has continued as editor of The Honolulu Star-Bulletin. He is also secretary
and a director of the publishing corporation, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd.

     During his war service with the American Red Cross, Mr. Allen directed an
operation which attracted international attention when, following the withdrawal
of United States troops from Siberia, he commanded the Petrograd Children's
Colony Expedition on a steamer voyage from Vladivostok to the Baltic Sea,
repatriating almost. 800 refugee Russian children and a large number of German,
Austrian and Hungarian war prisoners. Previously in Siberia he had served us a
relief worker, division manager and acting commissioner, with successive grades
from lieutenant to lieutenant-colonel. Mr. Allan has written considerable
fiction, having been a contributor to McClure's, Collier's, Saturday Evening
Post and other magazines.



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