Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Butler, John K. February 18, 1882 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Editor George F. Nellist

JOHN K. BUTLER, Industrial Director. As secretary and treasurer of the 
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, John K. Butler is the executive in 
immediate charge of the organization through which is co-ordinated the 
interests of Hawaii’s prosperity, as inevitably recorded by the state of the 
world sugar market.
  One of the most important duties of the Association in recent years has been 
direction of the importation of Filipino laborers for the sugar plantations, a 
work which is personally supervised by Mr. Butler.
  Mr. Butler first came to Honolulu in 1916 as traffic manager for the Oahu 
Railway & Land Co., Ltd., and in July, 1918, he was called to the United 
States army for world war service and commissioned a captain in the 
Quartermaster Corps. He was sent to Camp Funston, Kans., in charge of 
transportation and was later ordered to Washington, D.C., where he became 
assistant chief of the Inland Traffic Service under the General Staff Division 
of Purchase, Storage and Traffic. At the present time he holds a commission as 
major, U. S. Reserve Corps. In 1920 he was commander of the American Legion, 
Department of Hawaii.
  Returning to Honolulu from war service in 1919, Mr. Butler resumed his 
duties as traffic manager for the railway company, and accepted his present 
position with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association in 1920. 
  Before coming to Hawaii he had long experience in the railroad and steamship 
business. He was formerly connected with the Southern Pacific as statistician 
and assistant general freight agent and was interstate commerce expert for 
that system from 1903 to 1916.
  Born at Keytesville, Mo., Feb. 18, 1882, Mr. Butler is the son of John D. 
and Anna Louise (Kellogg) Butler. He received a grammar and high school 
education.
  Mr. Butler and Zita Clare Fahey were married in San Francisco, Oct. 14, 
1907. They have one child, John Kellogg Butler, Jr.


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