Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Kai, John K. April 14, 1878 - 
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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

JOHN K. KAI, Business Man. Combining a career in business with an interest in 
politics, John K. Kai has been president and manager of the automobile service 
of the People’s Garage, Ltd., Hilo, for several years and is prominent in the 
Republican party. Born at Hilo, Hawaii, April 14, 1878, son of John and 
Kanealoha Kai, he was educated at St. Mary’s School, Hilo, and began work in 
the transportation business with his father in 1892. After ten years he was 
selected to be deputy county clerk of the Island of Hawaii, an office he 
occupied until 1908 and was then county clerk until 1915. Meanwhile he had 
served as campaign manager for the Republican party on Hawaii and was 
territorial and county committeeman in 1908. In 1919 he was a member of the 
House of Representatives.
  In 1907 he was one of the organizers of the National Guard of Hawaii units 
at Hilo. From 1910 until 1915 he was in the real estate business and in 1916 
he established an automobile garage at Hilo. This was incorporated June 1, 
1920, as the People’s Garage, and he was made president and manager.
  Mr. Kai married Annie Akamu in Hilo on Dec. 22, 1903, and they have five 
children, Ernest Akamu, John, Paul, Albert and George Kai. He is a Forester, a 
member of Kamehameha Lodge, the Hilo Board of Trade and the Native Sons of 
Hawaii.


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