Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hind, John August 2, 1858 - 
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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

JOHN HIND, Sugar Planter. Widely known as a financier and agriculturist, John 
Hind, owner and general director of extensive sugar plantation and coffee 
properties on the Island of Hawaii, has been actively interested for more than 
half a century in the industrial development of the Territory.
  He has carried on and expanded the several enterprises established by his 
late father, Robert Robson Hind, and has also successfully organized and 
managed other agricultural and industrial undertakings. In addition to the 
operation of a sugar plantation, he has extensively engaged in coffee growing 
in the Kona district of Hawaii and in recent years has given considerable 
attention to the production of pineapples.
  Born at Jarrow-on-Tyne, England, Aug. 2, 1858, the eldest son of Robert 
Robson and Mary (Urwin) Hind, Mr. Hind came to Hawaii with his mother from 
England in the early 60’s, joining his father, who had preceded them to the 
islands. After receiving a common school education he entered his father’s 
employ, the elder Mr. Hind being then engaged in early sugar mill projects on 
the islands of Hawaii.
  Upon his father’s retirement in 1884, Mr. Hind assumed the management of the 
Hawi Mill and Plantation Co. and other properties. For many years he managed 
the plantation, now directed by his son, J. Henry Hind, and is still president 
of the corporation. In 1909, Mr. Hind added the interests of J. B. Castle and 
W. W. Brunner to his coffee plantation, now known as the Captain Cook Coffee 
Co., Ltd., the largest producer of Kona coffee in the islands. He was 
president and general manager of the Kohala Ditch Co. during the period of its 
construction, and acquired full control during 1912.
  He is president and managing director of these corporations, as well as the 
Hawi Mill and Plantation Co., holds the same office in the Puakea Plantation 
Co., Homestead Plantation Co., Hawaii Railway Co. and Kahena Plantation Co. 
and is a director of the Kohala Pineapple Co., Ltd.
  Mr. Hind married Ella Renton (deceased) at Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1885. He 
married Alice Renton at Kohala, Hawaii, in 1889. They have five children, 
Robert Renton, John Henry, Oswald Arthur, Muriel and James Urwin Hind. Mr. 
Hind is a Mason and a member of the Pacific and Oahu Country Clubs in Honolulu.


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