Coll. former editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. More than 40 of his 90 years were spent serving Hawaii and chronicling the many brilliant events of our islands history for posterity in the morning newspaper. In March 1959. after 37 years as editor of the Advertiser. he retired and was named editor emeritus. A native of Pittsburgh. Pa.. he was born on January 22. 1872. 1 of 10 children of Hugh and Catherine Coll. His father. an Irish immigrant. was a noted mining engineer at the Frick Coke Co. Ray Coll began his 67year newspaper career as a young man of 20 at Connellsville. Pa.
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