Henry Perrine Baldwin

Henry Perrine Baldwin was a businessman and politician on Maui in the Hawaiian islands. He supervised the construction of the East Maui Irrigation System and cofounded Alexander amp 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 , and his mother was Charlotte Fowler Baldwin. He was named after Matthew LaRue Perrine , 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 Alexanders rice plantation, but that failed. Instead by 1863 he went to work for his brother David 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 of the Waihe e 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.

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