Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Stevenson, Valentine L. February 24, 1872 - 
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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

VALENTINE L. STEVENSON, Newspaper Editor. Leaving the sugar industry in 1908, 
after more than a decade of service in Fiji and Hawaii. Valentine L. Stevenson 
turned to the profession of journalism and after years of work throughout the 
Territory purchased an interest in the Valley Island Chronicle, Wailuku, Maui, 
in 1922. He has been editor and manager since.
  Born Feb. 24, 1872, in Queensland, Australia, he is the son of James Bristow 
and Marie Frances (Egan) Stevenson. He was educated in The Sydney Grammar 
School and St. Ignatius College, Sydney. After seven years with the Bank of 
New South Wales he was appointed in 1897 to have charge of the Navoli estate, 
Fiji, for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. He resigned in 1904 to come to 
Hawaii. Here he occupied various positions with the Honomu Sugar Co., Hawaii; 
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Maui; Olaa Sugar Co., Hawaii; Pacific Sugar 
Mill, Hawaii, and Hawaiian Sugar Co., Kauai, from 1904 to 1908, when he 
entered newspaper work.
  Mr. Stevenson has been editor of the Hilo Tribune, Hawaii Herald, Maui News 
and Hawaii Post-Herald and sports editor of the Honolulu Evening Bulletin and 
Advertiser. He also was on the staff of the Hawaiian Star and Honolulu Star-
Bulletin. He has contributed to various periodicals of Hawaii and Australia. 
He married Teresa M. Clonan of New South Wales at Honolulu, July 27, 1911, and 
they have two children, Maile Frances Margaret and Leilani Noreen Stevenson. 
Mr. Stevenson is a member of Maui Lodge, No. 472, F. & A.M. and Aloha Lodge, 
No. 3, Knights of Pythias. He was secretary of the Hilo Board of Trade in 
1917, and is a Republican in politics.


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