Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Cockett, J. Pia June 11, 1880 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

J. PIA COCKETT, Educator and Public Official. Instructor and principal of 
various schools on the islands of Hawaii and Maui throughout a long career as 
an educator, J. Pia Cockett left educational work in 1921 when he was elected 
treasurer of Maui on the Republican ticket. In 1923 he was re-elected without 
opposition.
  Mr. Cockett began his school work in 1898, when he became assistant teacher 
of the Kalaoa school at North Kona, Hawaii, where he served until September, 
1903. From 1903 to 1906 he taught in the Kealahou school, Maui; from 1906 
until 1911 was principal of the Ulupalakua school; from 1911 to 1918 was 
principal and instructor in the Kihei school, and from 1918 to 1921 in the 
Puukolii school, Lahaina.
  At the conclusion of twenty-three years in public school service, Mr. 
Cockett became actively interested in political and civic affairs and became 
the Republican candidate for the office of treasurer, to which he has been 
elected twice.
  Born at Waikapu, Maui, on June 11, 1880, Mr. Cockett is the son of George 
and Miriam (Keaweiwi) Cockett. He attended Kamehameha Preparatory School and 
the public schools of Hawaii. In 1906 he married Mary Whilani Kekahu, and they 
have nine children, George, Patrick, Frank, Amy, Herbert, Phoebe, Rebecca, 
Zelie, and James Cockett.


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