Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Beaven, John Ashman October 31, 1869 - 
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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 Geroge F. Nellist

JOHN ASHMAN BEAVEN, Sports Promoter. Devoting his entire time since 1912 to 
the development of sports in the Territory, J. Ashman Beaven is in a large 
measure responsible for the present high standard of both amateur and 
professional athletics in Hawaii.
  His interest in sports began in 1912, when he was elected secretary of the 
Outrigger Canoe Club, an office held for five years. At that time there were 
few athletic clubs in the islands, and Mr. Beaven determined to organize the 
younger men in various sections for outdoor contests. Acting in conjunction 
with former Governor Charles J. McCarthy, Rear Admiral R. N. Doyle, U.S.N., 
and Brigadier General A. P. Blocksom, U.S.A., he formed the Oahu-Service 
Athletic League in 1918, which promoted sports between Army, Navy and civilian 
teams during the period of the World War. Former Governor McCarthy and the two 
officers acted as honorary presidents of the organization, and Mr. Beaven as 
manager and executive directed all its activities, including baseball, 
football, basketball and volley ball. In 1920 the league was reorganized and 
became the Honolulu Baseball League.
  In 1918 Mr. Beaven was elected president of the Oahu Baseball League, and 
acquired Moiliili field, where he has been staging athletic contests ever 
since. He is also the organizer of the Wanderers’ Athletic Club, composed 
exclusively of white American citizens, and which won the baseball 
championship of the Territory in 1924.
  The principal feature of Mr. Beaven’s activities has been the bringing here 
of mainland teams for athletic contests with local organizations. He has been 
the leading factor in bringing baseball teams from Stanford University, 
University of California, Chicago University and, in 1924, a Korean team from 
Seoul, Korea. He also cooperates with the University of Hawaii in bringing 
mainland football teams to the islands.
  Before going into sports promotion, Mr. Beaven was associated with Lorrin 
Andrews in private law practice in Honolulu from 1910 to 1912. Prior to that, 
he was in business in China and Japan from 1905 to 1907, and in San Francisco 
from 1907 to 1910, when he came to Hawaii.
  He followed newspaper work for fifteen years, being a member of the staff of 
the New York Evening Telegram, 1890=92; New York Recorder, 1892-93; New York 
World, 1893-95; New York American, 1895-98; and the Milford (Conn.) Citizen, 
1899 to 1905. He was president of the Milford Board of Trade for five years, 
vice-president if the Connecticut Editorial Association for the same period, 
and vice-president of the Connecticut State Board of Trade from 1903 to 1905.
  Born in Owego, Tioga County, N.Y., on Oct. 31, 1869, Mr. Beaven is the son 
of John Hort and Rebecca (Ashman) Beaven. He was educated in the public 
schools of New York and Connecticut, and spent two years in Sheffield 
Scientific School at Yale. He traveled in Africa, India and Europe from 1887 
to 1890. In 1911 he married Alice Margaret Keliher of Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. 
Beaven is a Mason and an Elk.


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