Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....McCandless, John A. June 11, 1853 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOHN A. MCCANDLESS, Capitalist. A leader in many of the largest business 
enterprises of Hawaii, John A. McCandless has also actively followed the 
political fortunes of the islands.
  At the time of the Revolution in 1893, Mr. McCandless, then at the head of 
the rapidly growing well-drilling concern of McCandless Brothers, was a member 
of the committee of thirteen that aided in the overthrow of the Hawaiian 
monarchy, and during the entire existence of the provisional government he 
held official positions. From 1894 to 1898 he was a member of the Senate and 
he was the first superintendent of public works under the territorial 
government.
  Mr. McCandless came to Honolulu in 1881 and organized the firm of McCandless 
Brothers, which included his two brothers, James S. and Lincoln L. McCandless.
  The three brothers eventually branched into various lines of endeavor, John 
A. McCandless becoming heavily interested in agricultural and industrial 
development. He is now vice-president of the Pioneer Mill Co., vice-president 
of the Oahu Sugar Co., president of the Home Insurance Co., director of the 
Bank of Hawaii, president of the McCandless Building Co., and a director of 
Waialua Plantation.
  Mr. McCandless also has large interests in California, both mining and 
agricultural. He is president of the American Bar Quartz Mining Co., which is 
operating successfully in Placer County, Calif., and he is a director of the 
Pacific Gas & Electric CO., of San Francisco. The River Farms Co., which owns 
and operates one of the largest ranches in California, was organized with the 
financial assistance of Mr. McCandless.
  Mr. McCandless holds memberships in the Commercial and Oahu Country Clubs, 
and is a Mason and a Shriner.
  Born in Pennsylvania, June 11, 1853, the son of Thomas M. and Eliza (Newman) 
McCandless, John A. McCandless received a public school education and went 
into the West Virginia oil fields, where he learned well drilling, the trade 
with which he later founded his fortune in Hawaii. In 1877 he married Ella 
Thompson of Parkersburg, W. Va.


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