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Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Akana, F. Lang April 15, 1889 - 
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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

F. LANG AKANA, Executive Secretary. Advisor to more than four hundred boys who 
are under the supervision of the territorial Board of Industrial Schools, F. 
Lang Akana, executive secretary of the board, has given valuable social 
service to Honolulu since his appointment to that office in 1919.
  Born in Honolulu, April 15, 1889, Mr. Akana is the son of C. T. and Kapika 
Kauka Akana. He received his education at St. Louis College, and upon being 
graduated entered the employ of the California Feed Co., Ltd., in 1908. In 
1911 he went to Australia on the first concert tour of that country by 
Hawaiian singers.
  Always active in athletics, Mr. Akana was a member of a baseball team 
composed of Oriental and part-Oriental players which toured the mainland in 
1912 and 1913. Returning to Hawaii, Mr. Akana was a clerk for the judiciary 
committee of the senate and for a short time was connected with the 
territorial archives. For four years before assuming his present position he 
was again associated with the California Feed Co., Ltd.
  Mr. Akana and Kate Stewart were married in Honolulu, Aug. 26, 1915. They 
have two children, Kate Puamana and Frances Lonohiwa Akana. He is a Forester 
and a member of the Native Sons of Hawaii, Order of Kamehameha and the 
Hawaiian Civic Club.


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