Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Baldwin, Benjamin Douglas April 12, 1867 - 
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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

BENJAMIN DOUGLAS BALDWIN, Planter. Benjamin Douglas Baldwin, a descendant of 
early missionaries, has devoted his life to Hawaii’s greatest industry, the 
production of sugar.
  His career in the sugar industry began on Jan. 1, 1889, on the Haiku Sugar 
Co. plantation at Hamakuapoko. He was 22 years old at the time. On March 15, 
1891, he was promoted to head luna for the Kaluinui section and head luna for 
the entire plantation on January 5, 1896, seven years after he had started at 
the plantation. On Feb. 2, 1901, he was appointed assistant manager of the 
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. plant at Puunene, Maui. Two years later he 
was selected as manager for the Hawaiian Sugar Co., at Makaweli, Kauai, a 
position which he has retained for upwards of a quarter of a century.
  Mr. Baldwin is a grandson of the Rev. Dwight Baldwin, one of the earliest 
missionaries to Hawaii. His parents were David Dwight and Lois Gregory 
(Morris) Baldwin, and he was born at Kohala, Hawaii, on April 12, 1867. His 
early education was obtained privately and at public schools. Later he 
attended Oahu College.
  That all of his activities were not confined solely to the sugar industry is 
made manifest by the fact that he was commissioned as a major in the Hawaii 
National Guard on Kauai and also commanded the Third Battalion of the Fifth 
Division during the war.
  He married Louise Theresa Voss in Honolulu on April 11, 1893. Three sons 
were born to them, Douglas Elmer, Paul Frederick and Cedric Benjamin.


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