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William DeWitt Alexander
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- W.D. Alexander
- Professor W.D. Alexander
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Dates of existence
1833-04-02 / 1913-02-22
History
1855 b. Honolulu
1855 graduated Yale University
1858 professor of Greek, Oahu College
1860 m. Abigail Baldwin of Lahaina.
1864 president, Oahu College
1870 charge of Bureau of Government Survey
1891 author, “A brief history of the Hawaiian people”
1896 author, "History of later years of the Hawaiian monarch and the revolution of 1893”
1896-06-24 / 1905-06-24 Commissioner of Public Instruction.
1900-06-14 to 1901-02-01 Surveyor
1905-11-06 Board of Education member. Reappointed 1887-07-07; 1894-02-19, 1895-08.
1913 d. Honolulu, Feb.21
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Sources
Honolulu Advertiser, Sat. Feb 22, 1913, p.4
Maintenance notes
2021-09-22, Carol Kellett: Entered into AtoM.