Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Kellett, John Richard  July 9, 1882 - 
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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 RICHARD KELLETT, Captain of Detectives. Detection of crime in Honolulu 
and the maintenance of law and order have occupied John R. Kellett since 1909. 
Entering the police department in that year as a special detective, he has 
advanced to the head of the detective bureau, receiving the appointment Dec. 
26, 1923.
  Born in Honolulu, July 9, 1882, Captain Kellett is the son of P. D. and 
Helen (Marble) Kellett. His grandfather, John Kellett, was a pioneer resident 
of Kauai and his father, who died in 1917, was in the shipping department of 
Theo H. Davies & Co., Ltd., for more than forty years.
  Upon leaving Iolani College, Captain Kellett entered the employ of Makaweli 
plantation on Kauai and for a number of years represented H. R. Macfarlane on 
that island as a shipping agent, operating the schooners Twilight, Malolo, 
Wailua and Ada, later entering the employ of the Mutual Telephone Co. in 
Honolulu. In 1908 he resigned as purser with the Inter-Island Steam Navigation 
Co. to become clerk of the printing committee, House of Representatives, in 
the session of 1909, holding this position until he entered the detective 
bureau.
  Captain Kellett and Julia Akau wee married in Honolulu, March 2, 1904. He is 
a member of the Order of Kamehameha, Native Sons of Hawaii, Lunalilo Circle 
and Modern Order of Phoenix.


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