Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Doyle, J. Walter November 2, 1879 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

J. WALTER DOYLE, Newspaper Writer. Son of one of the American pioneers who 
went to Japan soon after Commodore Perry opened the Island Empire, J. Walter 
Doyle was born in Yokohama on Nov. 2, 1879, the son of John and Mary Elizabeth 
(Welch) Doyle. His father, a United States naval officer with the rank of 
chief engineer, was sent to Japan by the federal government shortly after the 
civil war as a construction engineer. For many years after resigning from the 
naval service he was in the employ of the Mitsubishi Steamship Co.
  Mr. Doyle went with his mother to California when he was six years old. His 
first work was as salesman for the Goodyear Rubber Co. in San Francisco, but 
in 1898 he became freight clerk on the army transport Morgan City, which was 
carrying American troops to the Philippines during the Spanish-American war. 
The Morgan City was wrecked in the Inland Sea of Japan, running into an 
island. The crew and troops were removed without the loss of life.
  Mr. Doyle came to Hawaii and decided to make Honolulu his home. At that time 
the Republic of Hawaii was in power. In 1900 at the time of the Chinatown fire 
and plague epidemic, he was assistant superintendent of the drill shed relief 
camp at Hotel, Beretania and Miller streets, where 1300 Japanese and Chinese 
were cared for. He entered the customs service and on June 14, 1900, when the 
United States took actual possession of the islands and the Republic ceased to 
function, he remained with the new force as inspector and later discharging 
inspector. He resigned in 1902 and became purser for the Wilder Steamship Co. 
and later was with the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co.
  At the time of the San Francisco fire and earthquake of 1906, Mr. Doyle was 
shipping manager and team boss for the Hawaiian Fertilizer Co., but was 
granted a leave of absence when he was appointed assistant to James F. Morgan, 
president of the Chamber of Commerce, who had been appointed by Acting 
Governor A. L. C. Atkinson to distribute in San Francisco the fund of $50,000 
which was raised in Hawaii for the relief of Hawaiians there. In 1908 he was 
division deputy collector of internal revenue.
  In 1910 Mr. Doyle inaugurated the first annual Elks; carnival held in 
Honolulu and in 1912 he produced the famous “Roaring Camp,” which broke all 
previous records in Hawaii with gross receipts of $10,000. In 1913 he was 
general manager of Allen Doone on the tour of that famous Australian actor 
through New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia. He later returned to Honolulu and 
joined the editorial staff of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
  Two years later, in 1915, Mr. Doyle was appointed director of publicity for 
the Hawaiian Commission at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San 
Francisco. At the request of exposition officials he produced the pageant, “A 
Night in Hawaii,” on the lagoon in front of the Palace of Fine Arts Building. 
The performance was witnessed by 68,000 persons, the largest attendance at any 
of the many night spectacles at the exposition. It was considered one of the 
most successful events of the exposition and Mr. Doyle was presented with a 
memento consisting of a silver cup studded with jewels from the famous Tower 
of Jewels, by C. C. Moore, president of the exposition.
  Late in 1915 Mr. Doyle brought the Raymond Teal Musical Comedy Company to 
Hawaii for a tour of eight weeks. So successful was this venture that the 
company remained for 32 weeks. The next year he became manager of the Arcadia 
Auditorium, Detroit, and the Central Concert Co., which maintained amusement 
establishments in St. Louis and Cleveland, and the next year he rejoined Allen 
Doone as his manager for New York and San Francisco engagements.
  In 1918 Mr. Doyle returned to Hawaii to rejoin the Honolulu Advertiser, but 
in 1919 he went to San Francisco and was successful in interesting mainland 
capital in the building of the People’s Theater, now the New Princess. In 1920 
he joined the staff of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and became interested in 
politics. He served as treasurer of both the Oahu county and the Territorial 
Democratic Central Committees for several terms and was one of Hawaii’s six 
delegates to the Democratic National convention of 1924 in New York City. 
Returning to Hawaii from the convention, he again joined the Star-Bulletin and 
is now marine editor of that newspaper.


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