Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Dole, James D. September 27, 1877 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JAMES D. DOLE, Pineapple Packer. James D. Dole came to Hawaii a few months 
after his graduation from Harvard University in 1899 with the intention of 
engaging in agriculture and with that purpose in mind obtained sixty acres of 
land at Wahiawa, Island of Oahu, in 1900. After trying out various vegetables 
and pineapples, he concluded to concentrate on the production of pineapples.
  Earlier attempts had been made to establish a pineapple industry, but there 
were heavy obstacles. The local market was limited and it was extremely 
difficult to ship the perishable fruit to the coast. Mr. Dole decided that if 
pineapples were to be made commercially profitable they must be preserved and 
canned for general distribution in the mainland markets, and he undertook the 
formation of a company to establish and operate a cannery. The project met 
with ridicule in many quarters, but a company was finally incorporated with a 
capital of $20,000, a small plant was erected at Wahiawa in 1903 and an 
advertising campaign was undertaken by local growers in 1908 to introduce 
canned pineapples to American consumers. 
  From a modest start when it was incorporated on Dec. 4, 1901, the Hawaiian 
Pineapple Co., Ltd., now the largest packers of pineapples in the world, has 
developed, and the second largest industry of Hawaii has been created in less 
than twenty-five years, an industry in which many millions of dollars are 
invested and which is second only to sugar in importance in the Territory. Mr. 
Dole has been the president and general manager of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. 
since its organization.
  Mr. Dole is a member of the University, Commercial, Oahu Country, Harvard 
and Honolulu Ad Clubs, a director of The Bank of Bishop & Co. and the Bishop 
Trust Co., and is a trustee of Palama Settlement. He was born Sept. 27, 1877, 
in Boston, Mass., the son of Rev. Charles Fletcher and Frances (Drummond) 
Dole. His early education was received in the public schools of Jamaica Plain, 
and Boston, and he was graduated from Harvard with the degree of A.B. in 1899. 
In 1906 he married Belle Dickey of Honolulu and they have five children, 
Richard Alexander, James Drummond, Jr., Elizabeth, Charles Herbert and Barbara 
Dole.


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