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William DeWitt Alexander

January 07, 2023

William DeWitt Alexander (April 2, 1833 – February 21, 1913) was an educator, author and linguist in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii. He then constructed maps for the Territory of Hawaii.

William DeWitt Alexander
With his family in the 1880s
Born(1833-04-02)April 2, 1833
Honolulu, Hawaii
DiedFebruary 21, 1913(1913-02-21) (aged 79)
Occupation(s)Educator, Surveyor
SpouseAbigail Charlotte Baldwin
ChildrenAgnes Baldwin Alexander
+ 4 others
Parent(s)William Alexander
Mary McKinney

Early life

Alexander was born in Honolulu April 2, 1833. His father was missionary William Patterson Alexander and mother Mary Ann McKinney. He was named after William Radcliffe DeWitt (1792–1867) a Presbyterian pastor of his mother, who convinced her and her brother Edmund McKinney to become missionaries.[1] He graduated from Punahou School in 1849, and traveled to New England to enroll at Yale. He received a BA degree from Yale in 1855 as Salutatorian, a Master of Arts in 1858,[2] and was a member of Skull and Bones.[3] He returned to Hawaii and joined the faculty of Punahou School as a professor of Greek and history. He married Abigail Charlotte Baldwin (1833–1913), daughter of missionary Dwight Baldwin in 1861. He became the fourth president of Punahou (then called Oahu College) in the summer of 1864, replacing Cyrus T. Mills. Mills and his wife Susan Tolman Mills then founded Mills College.[4]

Work

During this time Alexander published books on Hawaiian history and the Hawaiian language. His younger brother Samuel Thomas Alexander founded Alexander & Baldwin with his wife's brother Henry Perrine Baldwin. The swimming pool and athletic field at the school are named for Alexander family members.[5][6] In spring 1871 Alexander became Royal Surveyor-General, and Edward Payson Church replaced him as president of Punahou. As the head of the Kingdom's Survey Department, Alexander led a trigonometrical mapping project that eventually produced a map of the islands which the Kingdom showcased at the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia.[7] Alexander with Luther Aholo represented the Kingdom of Hawaii at the International Meridian Conference, held in Washington, DC, in October 1884. This conference resulted in the selection of the Greenwich Meridian as an international standard for zero degrees longitude.[8][9] On November 6, 1874 Alexander was appointed to the Board of education, and then in 1896 Commissioner of Public Instruction.[10] After Hawaii was annexed into the United States in 1898, Alexander was surveyor of the Territory of Hawaii. He assisted the U.S. National Geodetic Survey mapping the islands.[10] He was a founding member of the Hawaiian Historical Society (during its second incarnation in 1893) and served as its first corresponding secretary. He wrote many articles for its journal.[11]

Family and death

Yale awarded him an honorary Doctor of laws degree in 1903.[2] He died February 21, 1913 at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. He and his wife are buried in the cemetery at Kawaiahaʻo Church, across the street from where he was born.[12] Daughter Mary Charlotte Alexander (1874–1961) wrote a biography of both her grandfathers[13][14] and a history of Hawaii.[15] Daughter Agnes Baldwin Alexander (1875–1971) became a follower of the Baháʼí Faith and author.[16] She learned the Esperanto language[17] and moved to Japan.[18] He had sons William Douglas Alexander (1861–1936), Arthur Chambers Alexander (1863–1954), and Henry Edward Mansfield Alexander (June 10, 1868—August 22, 1900). William Douglas (sometimes called W.D. Alexander Jr.), was in San Francisco during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He survived with only a few important papers stuffed in his coat.[19] Arthur became a professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley and authored his own textbook.[20]

Works

  • William DeWitt Alexander (1891) [1864]. A short synopsis of the most essential points in Hawaiian grammar. Press Publishing Company Print.
  • William DeWitt Alexander (1891). A brief history of the Hawaiian people. American Book Co. ISBN 978-1-142-04130-4.
  • William DeWitt Alexander (1896). History of later years of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the revolution of 1893. Hawaiian Gazette Company.
  • William DeWitt Alexander (1900). Hawaiian Society Sons of the American Revolution yearbook. Hawaiian Gazette Company.
  • William DeWitt Alexander (1902). Hawaiian geographic names. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
  • William DeWitt Alexander (1907). Oahu college: list of trustees, presidents, instructors, matrons, librarians, superintendents of grounds and students, 1841-1906. Historical sketch of Oahu college. Hawaiian Gazette Company.
  • "Papers by "Alexander, W. D. (William De Witt), 1833-1913"". Hawaiian Historical Society. Retrieved April 30, 2010.

Family tree

References

  1. ^ The Centennial Memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle: Biographical. Meyers Printers and Publishing House. 1889. p. 444.
  2. ^ a b Yale University (1915). Obituary record of graduates of Yale University. The University. pp. 376–378.
  3. ^ Millegan, Kris (2003). "The Skeleton Crew". Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society. Walterville, OR: Trine Day. pp. 597–690. ISBN 0-9720207-2-1. "This list is compiled from material from the Order of Skull and Bones membership books at Sterling Library, Yale University and other public records. The latest books available are the 1971 Living members and the 1973 Deceased Members books. The last year the members were published in the Yale Banner is 1969."
  4. ^ . Punahou school web site. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
  5. ^ Walter F. Dillingham (March 1924). "Punahou's Physical Plant and the Goodhue Block Plan". The Friend. Vol. XCIV, no. 3. p. 66.
  6. ^ . 2011–2012. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
  7. ^ Greenlee, John Wyatt (2015). "Eight Islands on Four Maps: The Cartographic Negotiation of Hawai'i, 1876-1959". Cartographica. 50 (3): 119–140. doi:10.3138/cart.50.3.2857. S2CID 129490127. online
  8. ^ International Meridian Conference 1884, p. 2.
  9. ^ Schmitt & Cox 1992, p. 218.
  10. ^ a b "Alexander, William DeWitt office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  11. ^ Annual report of the Hawaiian Historical Society. Vol. 1. Hawaiian Historical Society. 1893. hdl:10524/86.
  12. ^ William Disbro (November 6, 2001). "Mission Houses Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii". US Genweb archives. from the original on March 2, 2013. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  13. ^ Mary Charlotte Alexander (1953). Dr. Baldwin of Lahaina. M.C. Alexander.
  14. ^ Mary Charlotte Alexander (1934). William Patterson Alexander in Kentucky, the Marquesas, Hawaii. Yale university press.
  15. ^ Mary Charlotte Alexander (1912). The story of Hawaii. M.C. Alexander.
  16. ^ Agnes Baldwin Alexander. Personal Recollections of a Bahá'í Life in the Hawaiian Islands: Forty Years of the Baháʼí Cause in Hawaii, 1902-1942. Honolulu, HI, USA: The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the Hawaiian Islands (rev. ed., 1974).
  17. ^ Agnes B. Alexander (October 1917). "The New Education—A Universal Language". The Friend. Vol. LXXV, no. 10. p. 228.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ Agnes Baldwin Alexander (June 23, 1958), Thomas Linard (ed.), , Michigan State University web site, archived from the original on July 20, 2011
  19. ^ William Douglas Alexander (May 16, 1906). "William Douglas Alexander letter to his sister, Mary C. Alexander". The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection.
  20. ^ Arthur Chambers Alexander (1901) [1897]. An elementary course in experimental physics (4 ed.). University of California.

External links

  • "William De Witt Alexander (fl.1833-1913)". Graphicus Rare and Antique maps web site. Retrieved April 29, 2010.

January 07, 2023
william, dewitt, alexander, april, 1833, february, 1913, educator, author, linguist, kingdom, hawaii, republic, hawaii, then, constructed, maps, territory, hawaii, with, family, 1880sborn, 1833, april, 1833honolulu, hawaiidiedfebruary, 1913, 1913, aged, occupa. William DeWitt Alexander April 2 1833 February 21 1913 was an educator author and linguist in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii He then constructed maps for the Territory of Hawaii William DeWitt AlexanderWith his family in the 1880sBorn 1833 04 02 April 2 1833Honolulu HawaiiDiedFebruary 21 1913 1913 02 21 aged 79 Occupation s Educator SurveyorSpouseAbigail Charlotte BaldwinChildrenAgnes Baldwin Alexander 4 othersParent s William Alexander Mary McKinney Contents 1 Early life 2 Work 3 Family and death 4 Works 5 Family tree 6 References 7 External linksEarly life EditAlexander was born in Honolulu April 2 1833 His father was missionary William Patterson Alexander and mother Mary Ann McKinney He was named after William Radcliffe DeWitt 1792 1867 a Presbyterian pastor of his mother who convinced her and her brother Edmund McKinney to become missionaries 1 He graduated from Punahou School in 1849 and traveled to New England to enroll at Yale He received a BA degree from Yale in 1855 as Salutatorian a Master of Arts in 1858 2 and was a member of Skull and Bones 3 He returned to Hawaii and joined the faculty of Punahou School as a professor of Greek and history He married Abigail Charlotte Baldwin 1833 1913 daughter of missionary Dwight Baldwin in 1861 He became the fourth president of Punahou then called Oahu College in the summer of 1864 replacing Cyrus T Mills Mills and his wife Susan Tolman Mills then founded Mills College 4 Work EditDuring this time Alexander published books on Hawaiian history and the Hawaiian language His younger brother Samuel Thomas Alexander founded Alexander amp Baldwin with his wife s brother Henry Perrine Baldwin The swimming pool and athletic field at the school are named for Alexander family members 5 6 In spring 1871 Alexander became Royal Surveyor General and Edward Payson Church replaced him as president of Punahou As the head of the Kingdom s Survey Department Alexander led a trigonometrical mapping project that eventually produced a map of the islands which the Kingdom showcased at the 1876 World s Fair in Philadelphia 7 Alexander with Luther Aholo represented the Kingdom of Hawaii at the International Meridian Conference held in Washington DC in October 1884 This conference resulted in the selection of the Greenwich Meridian as an international standard for zero degrees longitude 8 9 On November 6 1874 Alexander was appointed to the Board of education and then in 1896 Commissioner of Public Instruction 10 After Hawaii was annexed into the United States in 1898 Alexander was surveyor of the Territory of Hawaii He assisted the U S National Geodetic Survey mapping the islands 10 He was a founding member of the Hawaiian Historical Society during its second incarnation in 1893 and served as its first corresponding secretary He wrote many articles for its journal 11 Family and death EditYale awarded him an honorary Doctor of laws degree in 1903 2 He died February 21 1913 at the Queen s Medical Center in Honolulu He and his wife are buried in the cemetery at Kawaiahaʻo Church across the street from where he was born 12 Daughter Mary Charlotte Alexander 1874 1961 wrote a biography of both her grandfathers 13 14 and a history of Hawaii 15 Daughter Agnes Baldwin Alexander 1875 1971 became a follower of the Bahaʼi Faith and author 16 She learned the Esperanto language 17 and moved to Japan 18 He had sons William Douglas Alexander 1861 1936 Arthur Chambers Alexander 1863 1954 and Henry Edward Mansfield Alexander June 10 1868 August 22 1900 William Douglas sometimes called W D Alexander Jr was in San Francisco during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake He survived with only a few important papers stuffed in his coat 19 Arthur became a professor of Physics at the University of California Berkeley and authored his own textbook 20 Works EditWilliam DeWitt Alexander 1891 1864 A short synopsis of the most essential points in Hawaiian grammar Press Publishing Company Print William DeWitt Alexander 1891 A brief history of the Hawaiian people American Book Co ISBN 978 1 142 04130 4 William DeWitt Alexander 1896 History of later years of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the revolution of 1893 Hawaiian Gazette Company William DeWitt Alexander 1900 Hawaiian Society Sons of the American Revolution yearbook Hawaiian Gazette Company William DeWitt Alexander 1902 Hawaiian geographic names United States Coast and Geodetic Survey William DeWitt Alexander 1907 Oahu college list of trustees presidents instructors matrons librarians superintendents of grounds and students 1841 1906 Historical sketch of Oahu college Hawaiian Gazette Company Papers by Alexander W D William De Witt 1833 1913 Hawaiian Historical Society Retrieved April 30 2010 Family tree EditvteFamily of William DeWitt AlexanderWilliam P Alexander 1805 1884 i Mary Ann McKinney 1810 1888 Amos Starr Cooke 1810 1871 Juliette Montague 1812 1896 Dwight Baldwin 1798 1886 Charlotte Fowler 1805 1873 J W Smith 1810 1887David Dwight Baldwin 1831 1912 W O Smith 1848 1929 William D Alexander 1833 1913 Abigail Baldwin 1847 1912 Samuel T Alexander 1836 1904 Martha Eliza Cooke ii Ann Elizabeth Alexander 1843 1940 Henry P Baldwin 1842 1911 iii Emily Whitney Alexander 1846 1943 Agnes Alexander 1875 1971 iv Annie Montague Alexander 1867 1950 C W Dickey 1871 1942 Belle Dickey 1880 1972 James Dole 1877 1958 Henry Alexander Baldwin 1871 1946 v Ethel Frances Smith 1879 1967 J Walter Cameron 1895 1976 Francis Baldwin 1904 1996 Colin C Cameron 1927 1992 Kapalua Notes James McKinney Alexander 1888 Mission Life in Hawaii Memoir of Rev William P Alexander Harvard University Pacific Press Publishing Company Hawley Emily Carrie 1922 The Introduction of Christianity Into the Hawaiian Islands And the Development of These Islands Through the Agency of the Missionaries and Their Descendants 1820 1920 Press of E L Hildreth Baldwin David Dwight 1831 1912 on JSTOR plants jstor org Retrieved December 30 2019 Life of Agnes Alexander bahai library com Retrieved December 30 2019 Hawaii Cattlemen s Council Henry Harry Alexander Baldwin Hawaii Cattlemen s Council Retrieved December 30 2019 References Edit The Centennial Memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle Biographical Meyers Printers and Publishing House 1889 p 444 a b Yale University 1915 Obituary record of graduates of Yale University The University pp 376 378 Millegan Kris 2003 The Skeleton Crew Fleshing Out Skull and Bones Investigations into America s Most Powerful Secret Society Walterville OR Trine Day pp 597 690 ISBN 0 9720207 2 1 This list is compiled from material from the Order of Skull and Bones membership books at Sterling Library Yale University and other public records The latest books available are the 1971 Living members and the 1973 Deceased Members books The last year the members were published in the Yale Banner is 1969 The History of Punahou Punahou school web site Archived from the original on May 27 2010 Retrieved April 28 2010 Walter F Dillingham March 1924 Punahou s Physical Plant and the Goodhue Block Plan The Friend Vol XCIV no 3 p 66 Punahou School Alexander Field 2011 2012 Archived from the original on March 19 2012 Retrieved November 19 2012 Greenlee John Wyatt 2015 Eight Islands on Four Maps The Cartographic Negotiation of Hawai i 1876 1959 Cartographica 50 3 119 140 doi 10 3138 cart 50 3 2857 S2CID 129490127 online International Meridian Conference 1884 p 2 sfn error no target CITEREFInternational Meridian Conference1884 help Schmitt amp Cox 1992 p 218 sfn error no target CITEREFSchmittCox1992 help a b Alexander William DeWitt office record state archives digital collections state of Hawaii Archived from the original on May 27 2010 Retrieved April 29 2010 Annual report of the Hawaiian Historical Society Vol 1 Hawaiian Historical Society 1893 hdl 10524 86 William Disbro November 6 2001 Mission Houses Cemetery Honolulu Hawaii US Genweb archives Archived from the original on March 2 2013 Retrieved April 29 2010 Mary Charlotte Alexander 1953 Dr Baldwin of Lahaina M C Alexander Mary Charlotte Alexander 1934 William Patterson Alexander in Kentucky the Marquesas Hawaii Yale university press Mary Charlotte Alexander 1912 The story of Hawaii M C Alexander Agnes Baldwin Alexander Personal Recollections of a Baha i Life in the Hawaiian Islands Forty Years of the Bahaʼi Cause in Hawaii 1902 1942 Honolulu HI USA The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaʼis of the Hawaiian Islands rev ed 1974 Agnes B Alexander October 1917 The New Education A Universal Language The Friend Vol LXXV no 10 p 228 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Agnes Baldwin Alexander June 23 1958 Thomas Linard ed An account of how I became a Baha i and my stays in Paris in 1901 and 1937 Michigan State University web site archived from the original on July 20 2011 William Douglas Alexander May 16 1906 William Douglas Alexander letter to his sister Mary C Alexander The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection Arthur Chambers Alexander 1901 1897 An elementary course in experimental physics 4 ed University of California External links Edit William De Witt Alexander fl 1833 1913 Graphicus Rare and Antique maps web site Retrieved April 29 2010 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title William DeWitt Alexander amp oldid 1080535353, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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