Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Coll, Raymond C. January 22, 1876 - 
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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

RAYMOND S. COLL, Newspaper Executive. Engaged in newspaper work as a reporter 
and in executive positions for almost a quarter of a century, Raymond S. Coll, 
managing editor of the Honolulu Advertiser, began his journalistic career in 
Pennsylvania. A member of the rescue survey party which worked in search of 
bodies of miners entombed in the Hill Farm mine disaster in the 90’s, Mr. Coll 
reported its work to Pittsburg and Philadelphia newspapers. Subsequent 
accounts of the rescue party’s activities attracted attention of editors with 
the result that Mr. Coll was urged to enter the newspaper profession and did 
so.
  Born in Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 22, 1876, Mr. Coll is the son of Hugh and 
Catherine (McKenna) Coll. He received his education in the schools of 
Pennsylvania and attended the Mt. Pleasant Classical and Scientific Institute 
three years, until 1891. In summer vacations Mr. Coll worked as a trapper boy, 
pumper and air-fan boy in the coal mines and upon leaving school joined the 
mining engineer corps of the H. C. Frick Co., working for two years on mine 
surveys in Pennsylvania.
  His first newspaper affiliation was with the Connellsville, Pa., “Courier” 
and he went to the Pittsburg “Daily News” in 1897. Shortly afterwards he 
became a member of the staff of the Pittsburg “Times.” During the Spanish-
American war, he reported local assignments of the sinking of the 
battleship “Maine.” His work was confined chiefly to Pennsylvania cities until 
1907, when he became managing editor and publisher of the Bisbee, 
Ariz., "Review." From 1908 to 1909 he was editor and publisher of the Douglas, 
Ariz., “Dispatch” and after spending a short time in California, returned to 
Pittsburg as night editor of the “Dispatch.” He remained in this position 
until 1916, varying his editorial duties by acting as New York correspondent 
for the newspaper during the early years of the World War. From 1916 until his 
departure for Hawaii, Mr. Coll was managing editor of the “Dispatch.”
  He married Annette Towzey, a granddaughter of Caroline Fitzhugh of Virginia, 
in Pittsburg, Pa., in August, 1896. They have one son, Raymond H. Coll. Mr. 
Coll is a Mason and a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.


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