Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Baldwin, Harry A. January 12, 1871 - 
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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

HARRY A. BALDWIN, Sugar Planter. A career in Hawaii’s primary agricultural 
industry came naturally to Harry A. Baldwin, president and manager of the Maui 
Agricultural Co., Ltd., for he was born and reared on a sugar plantation, the 
eldest son of Henry P. Baldwin, one of the foremost industrial builders of the 
Islands and Emily (Alexander) Baldwin, both of his parents members of early 
missionary families.
  Born at Paliuli, Maui, Jan. 12, 1871, Mr. Baldwin was educated in the 
grammar schools of San Francisco, Oahu College, Honolulu; Phillips Andover 
Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  Returning home from school, he began work as a timekeeper for the Haiku 
Sugar Co. in 1895. Two years later he was appointed manager of the company and 
served until 1904, when he became manager of the Maui Agricultural Co., a co-
partnership of Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation Co., and other land-owning 
corporations. He has occupied this position since, and in 1912 assumed 
additional duties as president of the corporation. He also is president of the 
Haleakala Ranch Co., Maui Telephone Co., and Maui Publishing Co.
  Mr. Baldwin actively entered politics in 1912 and was elected to represent 
Maui in the territorial senate for the 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919 and 1921 
sessions. In 1922, following the death of Prince J. Kuhio Kalanianaole, Mr. 
Baldwin was chosen at a special election to fill the prince’s unexpired term 
as delegate to Congress from Hawaii. Pressure of business affairs forced him 
to decline a renomination for a full term. He retained the chairmanship of the 
Maui Republican County Central Committee, which he has held since 1912.
  Mr. Baldwin was named colonel of the 3rd Regiment, National Guard of Hawaii, 
in 1916. He is a member of the University, Oahu Country, and Commercial Clubs, 
Honolulu; the Transportation and Bohemian Clubs, San Francisco, and the Chi 
Phi national fraternity. He married Ethel Frances Smith, daughter of W. O. 
Smith, kamaaina lawyer, in Honolulu, July 19, 1897, and they have one child, 
Frances Hobron Baldwin, now Mrs. J. Walter Cameron.


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