One of the qualities most frequently attributed to the San Francisco business man is the cosmopolitan character of his interests. His viewpoints are world wide, and his standards of judgment are based upon dealings limited by none of the ordinary conventions of commerce and trade. One of the men who exemplifies this quality in a high degree is Wallace McKinney Alexander, president of the great firm of Alexander & Baldwin, Limited, of Honolulu. Mr. Alexander is himself a native of the Hawaiian Islands, and his family were pioneers in the sugar planting and refining industry of the Pacific.
Mr. Alexander was horn on the Island of Maui, Hawaiian Islands, November 10, 1869. His mother, Martha Eliza (Cooke) Alexander, was born in Honolulu, both her parents being of Revolutionary stock and English descent, her father being a native of the State of Connecticut. Her parents went around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel to Honolulu, and for some time had charge of the Royal School, where the Hawaiian chiefs and wives were educated.
Wallace McKinney Alexander completed his education in Yale University, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892. In 1894, thirty years ago, he assisted in the organization of the firm of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., of which he is now president. It is one of the largest firms in Honolulu, representing a number of plantations and handling approximately 135 tons of sugar annually. The firm is a member of an organization in Honolulu known as the Sugar Factors Company. The greater part of the raw sugar controlled by the Sugar Factors Company is sent to the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company at Crockett on the Carquinez Straits, opposite Vallejo. This is one of the largest sugar refining plants in the world.
Mr. Alexander is also a vice president of the Matson Navigation Company, vice president of the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Ltd., a vice president of the Honolulu Consolidated Oil Company of California, a director of the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company, and a director of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and a director of the Columbia Steel Corporation.
At one time or another he has had some influential connection with nearly all the movements and organizations designed to influence and aid the commercial life of the Pacific and the far West. He served as chairman of the commission from San Francisco that visited Japan in 1920, and is chairman of the Japanese Relations Committee of California. In 1921-22 he was president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and it was during his presidency that the Community Chest was organized to centralize most of the charitable and social welfare work of the city. He is a director of the Californians, Inc., perhaps the most distinctive publicity organization ever promoted, and is a director and member of the executive committee of the San Francisco Industrial Association. He was a member of the Theta Xi college fraternity, belongs to the Pacific Union Club, the Bohemian Club, the San Francisco Commercial Club, the Pacific Club at Honolulu, and the Yale Club of New York. He is a republican and a member of an interdenominational church.
Mr. Alexander married at Oakland, California, August 16, 1904, Miss Mary S. Barker. Mrs. Alexander is a native daughter and has been prominent in many social and civic movements. During the World war she was captain in charge of the canteen work at the end of the Oakland Mole. She has been active in the Red Cross and Community Chest movement in Oakland and in the Piedmont Interdenominational Church. She was born at San Francisco. Her father, the late Timothy L. Barker, was attracted to California from Auburn, New York, during the gold rush, arriving in the state in October 1849. His name is associated with the pioneer history of the City of San Francisco. He was associated with Governor Booth in the wholesale grocery business in Sacramento and with Wellman Peck & Company in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have one daughter, Martha Barker Alexander.
- "The San Francisco Bay Region, Vol. 3" by Bailey Millard; Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924
Mr. Alexander was horn on the Island of Maui, Hawaiian Islands, November 10, 1869. His mother, Martha Eliza (Cooke) Alexander, was born in Honolulu, both her parents being of Revolutionary stock and English descent, her father being a native of the State of Connecticut. Her parents went around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel to Honolulu, and for some time had charge of the Royal School, where the Hawaiian chiefs and wives were educated.
Wallace McKinney Alexander completed his education in Yale University, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892. In 1894, thirty years ago, he assisted in the organization of the firm of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., of which he is now president. It is one of the largest firms in Honolulu, representing a number of plantations and handling approximately 135 tons of sugar annually. The firm is a member of an organization in Honolulu known as the Sugar Factors Company. The greater part of the raw sugar controlled by the Sugar Factors Company is sent to the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company at Crockett on the Carquinez Straits, opposite Vallejo. This is one of the largest sugar refining plants in the world.
Mr. Alexander is also a vice president of the Matson Navigation Company, vice president of the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Ltd., a vice president of the Honolulu Consolidated Oil Company of California, a director of the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company, and a director of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and a director of the Columbia Steel Corporation.
At one time or another he has had some influential connection with nearly all the movements and organizations designed to influence and aid the commercial life of the Pacific and the far West. He served as chairman of the commission from San Francisco that visited Japan in 1920, and is chairman of the Japanese Relations Committee of California. In 1921-22 he was president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and it was during his presidency that the Community Chest was organized to centralize most of the charitable and social welfare work of the city. He is a director of the Californians, Inc., perhaps the most distinctive publicity organization ever promoted, and is a director and member of the executive committee of the San Francisco Industrial Association. He was a member of the Theta Xi college fraternity, belongs to the Pacific Union Club, the Bohemian Club, the San Francisco Commercial Club, the Pacific Club at Honolulu, and the Yale Club of New York. He is a republican and a member of an interdenominational church.
Mr. Alexander married at Oakland, California, August 16, 1904, Miss Mary S. Barker. Mrs. Alexander is a native daughter and has been prominent in many social and civic movements. During the World war she was captain in charge of the canteen work at the end of the Oakland Mole. She has been active in the Red Cross and Community Chest movement in Oakland and in the Piedmont Interdenominational Church. She was born at San Francisco. Her father, the late Timothy L. Barker, was attracted to California from Auburn, New York, during the gold rush, arriving in the state in October 1849. His name is associated with the pioneer history of the City of San Francisco. He was associated with Governor Booth in the wholesale grocery business in Sacramento and with Wellman Peck & Company in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have one daughter, Martha Barker Alexander.
- "The San Francisco Bay Region, Vol. 3" by Bailey Millard; Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924
One of the qualities most frequently attributed to the San Francisco business man is the cosmopolitan character of his interests. His viewpoints are world wide, and his standards of judgment are based upon dealings limited by none of the ordinary conventions of commerce and trade. One of the men who exemplifies this quality in a high degree is Wallace McKinney Alexander, president of the great firm of Alexander & Baldwin, Limited, of Honolulu. Mr. Alexander is himself a native of the Hawaiian Islands, and his family were pioneers in the sugar planting and refining industry of the Pacific.
Mr. Alexander was horn on the Island of Maui, Hawaiian Islands, November 10, 1869. His mother, Martha Eliza (Cooke) Alexander, was born in Honolulu, both her parents being of Revolutionary stock and English descent, her father being a native of the State of Connecticut. Her parents went around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel to Honolulu, and for some time had charge of the Royal School, where the Hawaiian chiefs and wives were educated.
Wallace McKinney Alexander completed his education in Yale University, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892. In 1894, thirty years ago, he assisted in the organization of the firm of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., of which he is now president. It is one of the largest firms in Honolulu, representing a number of plantations and handling approximately 135 tons of sugar annually. The firm is a member of an organization in Honolulu known as the Sugar Factors Company. The greater part of the raw sugar controlled by the Sugar Factors Company is sent to the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company at Crockett on the Carquinez Straits, opposite Vallejo. This is one of the largest sugar refining plants in the world.
Mr. Alexander is also a vice president of the Matson Navigation Company, vice president of the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Ltd., a vice president of the Honolulu Consolidated Oil Company of California, a director of the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company, and a director of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and a director of the Columbia Steel Corporation.
At one time or another he has had some influential connection with nearly all the movements and organizations designed to influence and aid the commercial life of the Pacific and the far West. He served as chairman of the commission from San Francisco that visited Japan in 1920, and is chairman of the Japanese Relations Committee of California. In 1921-22 he was president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and it was during his presidency that the Community Chest was organized to centralize most of the charitable and social welfare work of the city. He is a director of the Californians, Inc., perhaps the most distinctive publicity organization ever promoted, and is a director and member of the executive committee of the San Francisco Industrial Association. He was a member of the Theta Xi college fraternity, belongs to the Pacific Union Club, the Bohemian Club, the San Francisco Commercial Club, the Pacific Club at Honolulu, and the Yale Club of New York. He is a republican and a member of an interdenominational church.
Mr. Alexander married at Oakland, California, August 16, 1904, Miss Mary S. Barker. Mrs. Alexander is a native daughter and has been prominent in many social and civic movements. During the World war she was captain in charge of the canteen work at the end of the Oakland Mole. She has been active in the Red Cross and Community Chest movement in Oakland and in the Piedmont Interdenominational Church. She was born at San Francisco. Her father, the late Timothy L. Barker, was attracted to California from Auburn, New York, during the gold rush, arriving in the state in October 1849. His name is associated with the pioneer history of the City of San Francisco. He was associated with Governor Booth in the wholesale grocery business in Sacramento and with Wellman Peck & Company in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have one daughter, Martha Barker Alexander.
- "The San Francisco Bay Region, Vol. 3" by Bailey Millard; Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924
Mr. Alexander was horn on the Island of Maui, Hawaiian Islands, November 10, 1869. His mother, Martha Eliza (Cooke) Alexander, was born in Honolulu, both her parents being of Revolutionary stock and English descent, her father being a native of the State of Connecticut. Her parents went around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel to Honolulu, and for some time had charge of the Royal School, where the Hawaiian chiefs and wives were educated.
Wallace McKinney Alexander completed his education in Yale University, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892. In 1894, thirty years ago, he assisted in the organization of the firm of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., of which he is now president. It is one of the largest firms in Honolulu, representing a number of plantations and handling approximately 135 tons of sugar annually. The firm is a member of an organization in Honolulu known as the Sugar Factors Company. The greater part of the raw sugar controlled by the Sugar Factors Company is sent to the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company at Crockett on the Carquinez Straits, opposite Vallejo. This is one of the largest sugar refining plants in the world.
Mr. Alexander is also a vice president of the Matson Navigation Company, vice president of the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Ltd., a vice president of the Honolulu Consolidated Oil Company of California, a director of the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company, and a director of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and a director of the Columbia Steel Corporation.
At one time or another he has had some influential connection with nearly all the movements and organizations designed to influence and aid the commercial life of the Pacific and the far West. He served as chairman of the commission from San Francisco that visited Japan in 1920, and is chairman of the Japanese Relations Committee of California. In 1921-22 he was president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and it was during his presidency that the Community Chest was organized to centralize most of the charitable and social welfare work of the city. He is a director of the Californians, Inc., perhaps the most distinctive publicity organization ever promoted, and is a director and member of the executive committee of the San Francisco Industrial Association. He was a member of the Theta Xi college fraternity, belongs to the Pacific Union Club, the Bohemian Club, the San Francisco Commercial Club, the Pacific Club at Honolulu, and the Yale Club of New York. He is a republican and a member of an interdenominational church.
Mr. Alexander married at Oakland, California, August 16, 1904, Miss Mary S. Barker. Mrs. Alexander is a native daughter and has been prominent in many social and civic movements. During the World war she was captain in charge of the canteen work at the end of the Oakland Mole. She has been active in the Red Cross and Community Chest movement in Oakland and in the Piedmont Interdenominational Church. She was born at San Francisco. Her father, the late Timothy L. Barker, was attracted to California from Auburn, New York, during the gold rush, arriving in the state in October 1849. His name is associated with the pioneer history of the City of San Francisco. He was associated with Governor Booth in the wholesale grocery business in Sacramento and with Wellman Peck & Company in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have one daughter, Martha Barker Alexander.
- "The San Francisco Bay Region, Vol. 3" by Bailey Millard; Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924
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