Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Gomes, John May 3, 1894 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOHN GOMES, Merchant. John Gomes, secretary of Andrade & Co., Ltd., clothiers, 
was born in Honolulu, May 3, 1894, the son of Frank and Virginia (Nunes) 
Gomes, was educated in the public schools of Honolulu, and at the age of 
sixteen entered McInerney’s store as an errand boy. Two years later he went to 
Silva’s Toggery as salesman, and remained there from 1912 to 1919, advancing 
to head salesman.
  Young Men’s Christian Association work claimed Mr. Gomes for a few months, 
and he was connected with the membership and physical training departments 
until May, 1920, when Andrade & Co., Ltd., was organized and he joined the 
firm as secretary.
  Mr. Gomes is actively interested in community welfare work, and for seven 
years directed athletics for the Honolulu Boys’ Club, and took charge of 
athletics for the young men’s division of the Y.M.C.A. He is now a member of 
the bowling, health, recreation and hand-ball committees of the “Y,” and is 
also a frequent referee in basketball contests and other athletic 
competitions. Mr. Gomes belongs to the Outrigger Canoe and Myrtle Boat clubs, 
Native Sons of Hawaii, and is treasurer of the Lusitana Society. In 1915 he 
married Lucy Faria of Honolulu and they have one child, Gertrude Virginia 
Gomes.


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