Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Lane, John Carey July 22, 1872 - 
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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 CAREY LANE, High Sheriff. John C. Lane, high sheriff of Hawaii, to which 
office he was appointed by Governor W. R. Farrington in August, 1922, recalls 
with pride that he once was in prison himself. An intense royalist in the 
hectic revolutionary days of 1893, High Sheriff Lane spent several months in 
prison with the late Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole and others on a charge of 
treason against the Provisional Government. He has devoted much of his time to 
public service in the past thirty years.
  He was born in Makao, Oahu, on July 22, 1872, to William Carey and Mary 
(Kahooilimoku) Lane. His education was received at St. Louis College, 
Honolulu, and he began his career as a purser with the Inter-Island Steam 
Navigation Co. in 1889. The next year he accepted a clerkship in the road 
department of the Hawaiian monarchy, remaining until the revolution of 1893. 
From 1893 to 1900 he engaged in farming near Honolulu, reentering the employ 
of the Inter-Island in the latter year.
  He was elected to the territorial senate in 1905 and introduced the bill 
which established city and county government for Honolulu. He was a candidate 
for mayor of Honolulu in 1908, being defeated by seven votes. He was a 
candidate again in 1910, being defeated by 52 votes, but in 1914 he was 
elected mayor by an overwhelming majority. Mr. Lane was a special delegate to 
the Republican National Convention in 1908. In 1904 and 1905 he served on the 
territorial Board of Health.
  He is Aliiaimoku (exalted ruler) of the Order of Kamehameha, a trustee of 
the Pan-Pacific Union and a member of the Chiefs of Hawaii, Native Sons of 
Hawaii, Court Lunalilo, No. 6600, A. O. F.; Phoenix Lodge and the Honolulu Ad 
Club. He married Alice Kalakini on March 14, 1909.


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