Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Rapozo, John Freitas October 20, 1882 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOHN FREITAS RAPOZO, Merchant. After some years spent in work for the 
Hanamaulu plantation and as a cowboy, John F. Rapozo was employed at the 
Hanamaulu branch of the Lihue store, Kauai, and from 1904 to 1920 was manager 
of the hardware department of the main Lihue store. He is now operating at 
Kapaa, Kauai, his own general merchandise business, which he established in 
1920, and has been postmaster at Kapaa since 1922.
  During the World War Mr. Rapozo worked actively for the American Red Cross, 
campaigning for the Red Cross fund on the island of Kauai, and for this 
service he received a Red Cross medal from the Republic of Portugal, presented 
by Consul Francisco P. Brito, in 1922.
  Mr. Rapozo was born in the Azores, Portugal, Oct. 20, 1882, the son of 
Joseph Freitas and Tereza Jesus Rapozo. He attended the public schools of 
Lihue. In 1904 he married Philomina Correia, and they have seven children, 
Ernest, Tereza, Virginia, Joseph, Albert, John and Raymond Rapozo. Mr. Rapozo 
is a Forester and a member of the Kauai Athletic Club and St. Antonio Society, 
of which he was agent in the Lihue district up to 1919.


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