Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hopper, Kenneth Carl April 22, 1880 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

KENNETH CARL HOPPER, Newspaper Manager. Manager of a newspaper at the age of 
19 years, Kenneth C. Hopper followed the profession of journalism after coming 
to Hawaii. He is now manager of the “Garden Island,” Kauai’s newspaper.
  Born in Mendocino County, California, on April 22, 1880, he is the son of 
John T. and Helen (Griffitts) Hopper. He became manager of the Los Alamos 
Central, a weekly newspaper in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1899, but left that 
position to found his own paper, the Guadalupe Moon, in the same county. He 
sold this property two years later and came to Honolulu in 1901. He was with 
the mechanical department of the Hawaiian Gazette Co. for nine years, removing 
to Kauai in 1910. Soon afterward he became manager and secretary of the Garden 
Island Pub. Co. He was elected president of the corporation in 1924.
  Mr. Hopper interested himself in civic affairs and has served as vice-
president and secretary of the Kauai Chamber of Commerce, president of the 
Lihue Tennis Association, member of the Kauai Council, Boy Scouts of America, 
and the county committee of the Kauai Y.M.C.A. He is a past noble grand 
Excelsior Lodge, No. 1, I.O.O.F., Honolulu.
  He married Gertrude Keeney at Guadalupe, Calif., on July 2, 1900, and they 
have three children, Thelma, Kenneth and Glenn Hopper.


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