Dwight Baldwin (September 29, 1798 - January 3, 1886) is an American Christian missionary and medical doctor in Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands, during the Kingdom of Hawaii. He is the patriarch of the family who founded some of the largest businesses on the islands.
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Life
Dwight Baldwin was born on September 29, 1798 in Durham, Connecticut, and moved to Durham, New York, in 1804. His father was Seth Baldwin (1775-1832) and his mother was Rhoda Hull. She is the second of 12 children. His cousin Elihu W. Baldwin, a prominent Presbyterian minister, became president of Wabash College. Dwight studied for two years at Williams College and graduated from Yale in 1821; he taught at school for three years. He attended medical classes at Harvard College, but only for a master's degree in science, not Doctor of Medicine. Around 1826 he decided to become a missionary. He attended Auburn Theological Seminary and was ordained in Utica, New York in 1830. On December 3, 1830, he married Charlotte Fowler (1805-1873), daughter of Deacon Solomon Fowler of North Branford, Connecticut. Only a few weeks later, on December 28, 1830, they sailed aboard the New England battleship of New Bedford, Massachusetts with the Fourth Company of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Their ship, which also brought Sheldon Dibble, arrived in Hawaii on June 21, 1831.
Baldwin has seven children: David Dwight Baldwin (1831-1912), Abigail Charlette (1833-1913), Charles Fowler (1837-1891), Henry Perrine Baldwin (1842-1911), Emily Sophronia (1844-1891), and Harriet Melinda (1846-1932). His son, Douglas Hoapili Baldwin, died young in 1843.
In November 1831, William P. Alexander and his wife, Mary Ann McKinney, also sailed from New Bedford at the next company. Both families become lifelong friends; they have two intermarriages and business partnerships.
Dwight Baldwin returned to the United States from 1856 to 1857. In 1870 he and Charlotte moved to Honolulu because of their deteriorating health and living with their daughter Harriet (called "Hattie"). Charlotte died 2 October 1873, and Dwight died on January 3, 1886; are they buried in Kawaiaha ? Church burial.
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Work
Baldwin was first assigned in January 1832 to a mission in Waimea on the island of Hawaii ? i to serve with Lorenzo Lyons at Imiola Church. Then in 1836 he was sent to the Waine Church ? e (now called Waiola Church) founded by William Richards in Lahaina on the island of Maui, which became the basis for much of the rest of his career.
From 1834 to 1835 the Reverend Ephraim Spaulding built a reef and volcanic rock house in Lahaina. Thick walls are framed by hand-carved wood. By 1838 Spaulding had returned to the United States, so the Baldwin family moved in, and would have a home for nearly 130 years. In 1840, a bedroom and study room were added, and in 1849, the whole second story was completed. The house was handed over from the Baldwin family to the Lahaina Restoration Foundation in 1967 for use as the Baldwin House Museum (also called Baldwin Home Museum). The house is located on 696 Front Street, 20Ã, Â ° 52? 23? N 156 Â ° 40? 40? W . The collection of Baldwin's scientific books grew to over 200 volumes. Visiting scientists, like those on the Expedition to Explore the United States, stay with his family.
Baldwin started the sailor's chapel in Lahaina where Lorrin Andrews serves. He acts as the unofficial postal head of Maui. He understands the repercussions of alcoholism in people, thus translating the treats of simplicity into Hawaiian and helping Andrews with the translation of the Gospels and Acts for new editions of the New Testament. Since Lahaina served as the capital of the Kingdom at the time, King Kamehameha III and other important leaders such as the Maui Island Governor Hoapili and his wife, Queen Kalfi Kaheiheim, would attend his church.
A series of epidemics struck the Hawaiian archipelago from October 1848 to early 1849. The first affected were whooping cough and measles, which are not owned by Hawaiians. Though trained primarily for spiritual healing, biology lessons make him a leading expert on Maui in Western medicine. At that time the function of the palace and government has moved to Honolulu. Some medical doctors who were formally educated on the islands were in private practice there: Gerrit P. Judd, Thomas Charles Byde Rooke, William Hillebrand, and Wesley Newcomb. Baldwin instead focuses on public health issues, and finds through what engineering experience can be applied in remote tropical environments. In his words:
I can compare with nothing but a raging battle, with all the turmoil & amp; sad scene about death & amp; massacre. I have never been driven to distract, week after week, & amp; month after month, without pause.
Immediately after the wave followed by dysentery, and influenza. Although there was an earlier epidemic, one reason suggested for this time was California Gold Rush. Before this foreign arrival time sailed from Europe either in South Africa, or from New England around Cape Horn. The voyage is long enough that the infected person dies (and is buried in the sea) or recovers when their ship arrives in Hawaii. But from 1848 a faster ship from San Francisco could cross the ocean in less than two weeks; there may still be infections as they arrive.
Baldwin traveled all over the island of Maui, Moloka ? i and L? Na? I did my best with the epidemic. Then in 1853, the smallpox epidemic hit the islands. Currently, an experienced practicing physician, Baldwin manages to make Lahaina quarantined and vaccinate as many people as possible, then departs to care for people on the far side of Maui and nearby islands. Although the exact number is unknown, there are thousands of deaths on Oahu; Baldwin is credited with keeping costs just a few hundred on Maui.
In 1855 the Waine congregation ? e church offers their labor under its direction to build a large building called Hale Aloha to commemorate life through the epidemic. He was finally awarded an honorary degree of medicine by Dartmouth College in 1859.
The personally practicing doctor who formed the Hawaiian medical association did not receive his mandate, and rejected the official medical permission of the Board of Health. He tried to retire in 1868, but Benjamin Wyman Parker (1803-1873) convinced him to help teach at the seminary to train a native Hawaiian pastor. He taught at the Theological School in Honolulu from 1872 to 1877. He served as the guardian of Oahu College (now known as the Punahou School, where many of his children and grandchildren would be present) from 1853 to 1875.
Legacy
David Dwight Baldwin's eldest son (1831-1912) is an entrepreneur, biologist, and educator on Maui. He and his sons started the first pineapple business on the island.
Abigail's daughter Charlotte Baldwin (1833-1912) married William DeWitt Alexander (1833-1913) in 1861, and their daughter Mary Charlotte Alexander (1874-1961) became a writer. Mary Charlotte Alexander writes her grandfather's biography, Dr. Baldwin of Lahaina and Hawaiian history.
Son Henry Perrine Baldwin (1842-1911) married Emily Whitney Alexander in 1869 and worked with Samuel Thomas Alexander, a partnership of Alexander & amp; Baldwin, one of the "Big Five" companies that dominated the Hawaiian economy in the early 20th century.
Princess Emily Baldwin married businessman William Olmsted Atwater (1848-1908) on 5 April 1873.
Harriet's daughter Melinda Baldwin married Samuel Mills Damon (1845-1924), son of missionary Samuel Chenery Damon, who became a wealthy businessman. Before his last grandchild died in 2004, and the plantation was divided, it was one of the largest private landowners in the state.
Family tree
References
External links
- Dwight Baldwin in Discover Mausoleum
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