Overview of the Collection
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Administrative Information
Cataloger's Note
Biographical Note
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Indexing: Added Entries
Indexing: Subjects
Indexing Terms
Overview of the Collection
Title: Dole Family Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1831-1944
Bulk dates: 1864-1898
Collection Number: mssHM 76328-76510
Creator:
Dole family.
Extent: 210 items in 4 boxes + 8 volumes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of the Dole family of
Hawaii, including transcripts of daily diary entries for family members (covering 1850-1884); family correspondence, documents,
and photograph albums.
Subjects include daily life, missionary work, church meetings, the Punahou School, and Hawaiian royalty and government.
Language: English.
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Administrative Information
Publication Rights
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one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Dole Family Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Provenance
Purchased from Pacific Book Auction Galleries, Sale 454, lot 85, May 19, 2011.
Cataloger's Note
1. Sanford B. Dole is not indexed as a subject as he is a subject of the majority of
the collection. He is the addressee of nine letters, which are listed in Indexing:
Added Entries. He is the author of five letters. Other subjects that are not
specifically indexed, due to the amount of material dealing with them include: Queen
Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian government, the overthrow of 1893, annexation by the
U.S., etc.
2. The originals of the diaries are at the Mission Houses Museum Hawaiian Mission
Children’s Society in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Biographical Note
Sanford Ballard Dole was born in Punahou, Hawaii, in 1844 two years after his brother
George. Their parents, Daniel and Emily Dole, came to Hawaii from Maine as
missionaries in 1841. The Doles first lived in Punahou, where they opened a school
for children. Emily Dole died days after giving birth to Sanford and two years
later, in 1846, Daniel married Charlotte Close Knapp, a fellow missionary in Hawaii.
In 1855 the Dole family moved to the island of Kauai and opened a school in Koloa,
which Sanford attended. Dole attended Punahou school for one year, and then Williams
College in 1866–1867. He worked in a law office in Boston for another year and moved
back to Hawaii in 1868 where he practiced law. In 1873, Dole was appointed
Commissioner of Private Ways and Water for the district of Kona. Also in 1873,
Sanford married Anna Prentice Cate; they had no children but in 1879, they adopted a
native 13-year old girl named Lizzie Napoleon.
Sanford won the 1884 and 1886 elections to the Hawaiian legislature as a
representative from Kauai. King Kalakaua appointed Dole a justice of the Supreme
Court of the Kingdom of Hawaii on December 28, 1887, and to a commission to revise
judiciary laws on January 24, 1888. After Kalakaua's death, his sister Queen
Liliuokalani appointed him to her Privy Council on August 31, 1891.
After the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen in 1893, Dole was named president of the
Provisional Government of Hawaii and in 1894, after a constitutional convention was
held, became president of the Republic of Hawaii. After the United States government
decided to annex Hawaii, Sanford was appointed governor of the territory by
President McKinley in June 1900. He resigned that position in 1903 to accept an
appointment by President Roosevelt to presiding Judge of the Federal District Court
of Hawaii. He held that position until 1915. Sanford Ballard Dole died in 1926.
His brother, George, married Clara Rowell in 1867, and began working on several
sugar plantations. They had thirteen children including Walter Dole and Herbert
Dole. The family moved to Riverside, California, in 1889. George H. Dole died in
California in 1912.
Scope and Content
The collection is organized in the following manner: 1. Diaries (Box 1); 2. Family
Correspondence (Boxes 2-3); 3. Genealogy Information, Photographs, and Ephemera (Box
4); and 4. Photograph Albums and Scrapbooks. The first three series are arranged
alphabetically by author; the photograph albums and scrapbooks are arranged
chronologically.
The Diaries series contains 22 diary transcripts of daily diary entries by Charlotte
Close Knapp Dole, George H. Dole and Clara Rowell Dole (covering 1850-1884).
Charlotte Dole’s diary talks about her husband’s work as a missionary, other
missionaries, church meetings, the Punahou School, and Hawaiian royalty. George H.
Dole’s diaries include a trip to the United States in 1864-1865, as well as details
about his work on several sugar and rice plantations including crop numbers, Chinese
workers, effects of weather, etc., and events taking place in Hawaii.
The Family Correspondence series contains 128 pieces of correspondence, the majority
of which are written by Clara Rowell Dole to her husband, George, her sons, Walter
and Herbert, and brother-in-law, Sanford B. Dole. Most of these letters were written
from her home in Kapaa, Kauai, while her husband was away and her children were
attending Oahu College (Punahou School). She talks about her daily activities, the
school, her children, an outbreak of measles, the Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese
workers, and some about Hawaiian royalty and government. There are five letters
written by Sanford B. Dole, three to his brother George and two to his nephew
Walter, and he is the addressee of nine letters. The rest of the correspondence
includes letters by Clara and George’s children and family and friends. The majority
of these letters written by their eldest son, Walter, are from his time at Cornell
University.
Details about ship arrivals and departures are included in both the diaries and
correspondence series.
The Genealogy Information, Photographs and Ephemera series includes legal documents
including last will and testaments, some letters, genealogical charts, and
manuscripts regarding the Dole, Rowell, Noyes, and Thurston families as well as
photographs and ephemera. There are also several documents and letters regarding the
estate of Sanford B. Dole and the distribution of his estate to family members.
There are four photographs: two of William Rowell, one of Sanford B. Dole, and one
of several Dole family members taken in 1899. The ephemera includes some
genealogical items (family trees) as well as two copies of newspapers, from San
Francisco and Los Angeles, featuring articles about Sanford B. Dole as President of
Hawaii and Hawaii becoming a Territory of the United States (1898).
There are three photograph albums and five scrapbooks, the majority of which
belonged to Walter Dole. These deal with the Dole family in Hawaii including
photographs of the family and scenes in Hawaii; there is also material about the
Dole family while they were living in Riverside, California. There are many articles
about Hawaiian politics, the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawaiian
royalty, and Sanford B. Dole. Much of the photograph album and scrapbook contents
deal with George and Clara Dole’s sons’ sports careers with Cornell University and
Stanford University (football and track). There are also a few articles about James
D. Dole, of Dole pineapple fame, and a cousin of the family.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in the following manner: 1. Diaries (Box 1); 2. Family
Correspondence (Boxes 2-3); Genealogy Information, Photographs, and Ephemera (Box
4); 4. Photograph Albums and Scrapbooks.
Indexing: Added Entries
Dole, Sanford B. (Sanford Ballard), 1844-1926.
-
Addressee of Clara Rowell Dole letter (1871, Oct. 26).
- Addressee of George H. Dole letters (1869-1871).
-
Addressee of Walter Dole letter (1888, Mar. 13).
- Addressee of May E. Green letter (1856, Jan. 17).
Indexing: Subjects
Bishop, Charles Reed, 1822-1915.
- Subject in Charlotte Close Knapp Dole, 1813-1874 diary (1850-1866). HM 76328.
Dole, Daniel.
- Subject in Charlotte Close Knapp Dole, 1813-1874 diary (1850-1866). HM 76328.
- Subject in George H. Dole diaries (1864-1866). HM 76329, HM 76331.
- Subject in Scrapbook (1896-1944). HM 76510.
Dole, James D. (James Drummond), b. 1877.
- Subject in Scrapbook (1896-1944). HM 76510.
Emma, Queen, consort of Kamehameha IV.
- Subject in George H. Dole diary (1874). HM 76333.
Kalakaua, David, King of Hawaii, 1836-1891.
- Subject in George H. Dole diary (1874). HM 76333.
Kamehameha III.
- Subject in Charlotte Close Knapp Dole, 1813-1874 diary (1850-1866). HM 76328.
Kamehameha IV.
- Subject in Charlotte Close Knapp Dole, 1813-1874 diary (1850-1866). HM 76328.
Lunalilo, King of Hawaii, 1835-1874.
- Subject in George H. Dole diary (1874). HM 76333.
Missionaries – Hawaii
- Subject in Charlotte Close Knapp Dole, 1813-1874 diary (1850-1866). HM 76328.
Punahou School.
- Subject in Charlotte Close Knapp Dole, 1813-1874 diary (1850-1866). HM 76328.
- Subject in George H. Dole diary (1864). HM 76329.
- Subject in Scrapbook (1891-1903). HM 76508.
- Subject in Scrapbook (1896-1944). HM 76510.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Bishop, Charles Reed,
1822-1915.
Dole family.
Dole, James D. (James
Drummond), 1877-.
Dole, Sanford B.
(Sanford Ballard), 1844-1926.
Emma, Queen, consort
of Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1836-1885.
Kalakaua, David, King
of Hawaii, 1836-1891.
Kamehameha III, King
of the Hawaiian Islands, 1813-1854.
Kamehameha IV, King of
the Hawaiian Islands, 1834-1863.
Liliuokalani, Queen of
Hawaii, 1838-1917.
Lunalilo, King of
Hawaii, 1835-1874.
Cornell University --
Sports -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Punahou
School.
Stanford University --
Sports -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Chinese -- Hawaii.
Education -- Hawaii.
Japanese -- Hawaii.
Missionaries -- Hawaii -- 19th
century.
Plantations -- Hawaii.
Portuguese -- Hawaii.
Sugar growing -- Hawaii.
Women -- Hawaii --
Correspondence.
Women -- Hawaii -- Diaries.
Hawaii -- Annexation to
the United States.
Hawaii -- History --
Overthrow of Monarchy, 1893 -- Sources.
Hawaii -- History --
To 1893 -- Sources.
Hawaii -- History --
1893-1900 -- Sources.
Hawaii -- Kings and
rulers.
Hawaii -- Politics and
government.
Hawaii -- Social life
and customs -- 19th century.
Hawaii -- Religion --
19th century.
Kapaa
(Hawaii)
Kauai (Hawaii) --
History -- Sources.
Oahu (Hawaii) --
History -- Sources.
Riverside
(Calif.)
Forms/Genres
Diaries Hawaii -- 19th century.
Letters (correspondence) Hawaii --
19th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- United
States -- 20th century.
Notes.
Photograph albums Hawaii.
Scrapbooks Hawaii.
Additional Contributors
Dole, Charlotte Close Knapp,
1813-1874.
Dole, Clara Rowell.
Dole, Daniel, recipient.
Dole, George H.
Dole, Sanford B. (Sanford Ballard),
1844-1926.