Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Allen, Riley Harris April 30, 1884 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

RILEY HARRIS ALLEN, Newspaper Editor. As a newspaper reporter, short story 
writer and newspaper executive, Riley H. Allen, editor of the Honolulu Star-
Bulletin, has been engaged in journalism and literature since the completion 
of his education at the University of Chicago, where he obtained a Ph.B. 
degree in 1905.
  Mr. Allen’s first position was as a reporter for the Seattle Post-
Intelligencer, but he soon came to Honolulu and was employed for several 
months on the staff of the Honolulu Evening Bulletin. He returned to the 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1906, and in 1907 was editor of the Washington 
Magazine, a monthly publication. During the next three years he was again on 
the Post-Intelligencer staff and in 1910 he returned to Honolulu as city 
editor of the Evening Bulletin. When the Bulletin and the Hawaiian Star were 
combined into the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, July 1, 1912, Mr. Allen assumed the 
editorship, his present position.
  In addition to his newspaper work in the Territory and on the mainland, Mr. 
Allen has written a number of short stories, contributed to McClure’s, 
Collier’s, the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines.
  Shortly after the American Expeditionary Force was sent into Siberia to 
cooperate with Allied troops, an American Red Cross unit was dispatched from 
Hawaii and Mr. Allen was one of the members of that unit. He saw service as a 
relief worker, division manager and acting commissioner, with successive 
grades from lieutenant to lieutenant-colonel. When the American Red Cross 
closed down its major activities after the withdrawal of the American troops, 
he commanded the Petrograd Children’s Colony Expedition on a steamer voyage 
from Vladivostok to the Baltic Sea, repatriating nearly 800 refugee Russian 
children and a large number of war prisoners. Following this he returned to 
Honolulu to become editor again of the Star-Bulletin. He is a member of the 
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Honolulu Ad, Rotary, Country and Press clubs, and 
other civic organizations, and of Beta Theta Pi college fraternity.
  Mr. Allen was born in Colorado City, Tex., April 30, 1884, the son of Riley 
Harris and Anna (Beck) Allen. He attended the public schools of Kentucky and 
Seattle, Seattle High School, and before going to the University of Chicago 
was enrolled in the University of Washington for two years. In 1910 he married 
Suzanne McArdie of Seattle.


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