Henry Perrine Baldwin
| Henry Perrine Baldwin | |
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| Born |
August 29, 1842 Lahaina, Maui |
| Died | July 8, 1911 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Businessman, Politician |
| Spouse(s) | Emily Whitney Alexander |
| Children |
Henry Alexander Baldwin (7 others) |
| Parent(s) |
Dwight Baldwin Charlotte Fowler |
Henry Perrine Baldwin (August 29, 1842 – July 8, 1911) was a businessman and politician on Maui in the Hawaiian islands. He supervised the construction of the East Maui Irrigation System and co-founded Alexander & Baldwin, one of the "Big Five" corporations that dominated the economy of the Territory of Hawaii.
Henry Perrine Baldwin was born on August 29, 1842 in Lahaina, Hawaii. His father was American Christian missionary Dwight Baldwin (1798–1886), and his mother was Charlotte Fowler Baldwin. He was named after Matthew LaRue Perrine (1777-1836), professor at Auburn Theological Seminary, from which his father had graduated shortly before his departure to the Hawaiian Islands. He attended Punahou School in Honolulu and returned to Maui to become a farmer. First he tried to manage William DeWitt Alexander's rice plantation, but that failed. Instead by 1863 he went to work for his brother David (also called Dwight Baldwin, Jr) who had started a small sugarcane farm. He hoped to earn enough money to go to medical school, but never left the sugar industry. He took a job as foreman (called luna) of the Waiheʻe plantation, owned by Christopher H. Lewers, under the management of Samuel Thomas Alexander. In 1867 he traveled to the west coast of the United States.
In 1869, Baldwin and Alexander became business partners and bought 12 acres (49,000 m2) in the eastern Maui ahupuaʻa (ancient land division) called Hāmākua Poko. (This is not to be confused with the Hāmākua district of Hawaiʻi island.) In 1870 they bought another 559 acres (2.26 km2) and planted sugarcane. Baldwin had gone into debt to buy the land.
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