Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Cody, Frank Jay March 3, 1878 - 
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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

FRANK JAY CODY, Newspaper Manager. Manager of the Hilo Tribune-Herald, only 
daily newspaper on the Island of Hawaii, since its appearance in 1923 through 
a merger of the Hawaii Post-Herald and the Hilo Tribune, Frank J. Cody was an 
extensive traveler before he established the Hawaii Post-Herald in 1918.
  Born March 3, 1878, at Eau Claire, Wis., he is the son of John Edward and 
Cora Helene Cody. He received a grammar school education and was a graduate 
apprentice in printing. He published the East Side News, Minneapolis, and was 
the author and publisher of the volume “Rushing the Klondike,” in 1897-1898. 
He came to Hawaii for the first time in 1900 as foreman of the Honolulu 
Republican, leaving soon afterward to engage in newspaper work in Japan, China 
and the Philippines in 1901 and 1902. He was a civil service craftsman 
instructor for the Bureau of Printing, Manila, from 1902 to 1906, and devised 
a perpetual inventory and cost card system which was adopted universally by 
government bureaus in Manila and Washington. In 1907 Mr. Cody devoted his time 
to travel in Egypt, India, Palestine and Europe, returning to the United 
States in 1907, when he erected a shingle mill at Bellingham, Wash. The next 
year he returned to the printers’ craft on the Pacific Coast, coming to Hawaii 
in 1917.
  He married Willamette Miller in Portland, Ore., June 10, 1917. By a former 
marriage he has one son, Rolland Jay Samuel Cody. Always prominent in 
fraternal, trade and civic activities, Mr. Cody is a Mason and a Shriner. He 
was master of Blackmer Lodge, F. & A.M., and president Masonic Board of 
Relief, San Diego, 1915; Worthy Patron, O. E. S., Hilo, 1920, and is an Elk. 
He was delegate to the Civic Convention, Maui, 1919; charter member and vice-
president Hilo Ad Club, 1919, and president, 1920; director Hilo Board of 
Trade and chairman of the Civic Convention Committee, 1920; chairman commerce 
committee, 1921; charter member Hawaii Auto Club, director 1920-1921, vice-
president 1921; charter member and sergeant-at-arms Hilo Rotary Club, 1921; 
representative to the National Council, Boy Scouts of America; chairman Hilo 
committee on arrangements, Press Congress of the World, 1921; chairman of the 
committee to organize the Hawaii Territorial Press Association; president of 
the Hawaii Banana Growers’ Association.


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