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D D (David Dwight) BaldwinDescription
David Dwight Baldwin (November 26, 1831 – June 16, 1912)[1] was a businessman, educator, and biologist on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands.
In 1872 Baldwin and his family lived in New Haven, Connecticut, while he worked in the Yale Law School library and earned his Master of Arts degree.[4] On his return to Hawaii he started an almost 40-year association with the education department of the Hawaiian government. He was vice-principal of Lahainaluna School from 1874 to 1877.[1] While he was inspector-general of the schools from 1877 to 1885, instruction was changed from the Hawaiian language to English.[5] Baldwin returned to Lahainaluna and served as vice-principal again until 1890.
In 1890 he moved to Haʻikū where his younger brother Henry Perrine Baldwin (1842–1911) had founded the agricultural venture Alexander & Baldwin with his brother-in-law Samuel Thomas Alexander (1836–1904). He organized a small school for the plantation employees.
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From 1860 to 1862 Baldwin served in the Kingdom House of Representatives.[3] Around 1865 he became manager of the sugarcane plantation in Kohala on the northern coast of Hawaiiʻi Island.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/10756/af5f35e0-740f-11f1-a005-7101c508bfd2-voZISGT.lg-nt@2x.jpg)
![For reference only: Upon David Baldwin's retirement from teaching in 1903, the Baldwin brothers (David and Henry) invested in the first commercial cultivation of pineapple on Maui.[9] Three years later, Belle Dickey, who was the niece of both a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law of Baldwin, married James Dole, who popularized Hawaiian pineapple.
After a cancer operation in February 1911, Baldwin died on June 16, 1912, at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. His remains were shipped to Maui and buried at the Makawao Union Church cemetery.[5](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/10756/40908d70-7410-11f1-a005-7101c508bfd2-voZISGT.lg-nt@2x.jpg)