Rev. William Patterson Alexander

Both William Patterson Alexander (1805-1884) and Dwight Baldwin (1798-1886) were missionary settlers in the Hawaiian Island. In 1831, Dr Dwight Baldwin and Charlotte Fowler were sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) as medical missionaries to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands. In 1832, Rev. William Alexander and Mary McKinney arrived. Their sons Samuel Thomas Alexander 1836-1904) and Henry Perrine Balldwin (1842-1911) would meet in Lahaina, Maui in 1843. The two became close childhood friends that would later develop a sugar growing partnership known as Alexander and Baldwin, Inc.

• http://sites.google.com/site/manuscriptfindingaids/lpabf: The Alexander and Baldwin Papers; letters and papers of the families in Hawaii.
• The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 (1881)

Author: Baldwin, C. C. (Charles Candee), 1834-1895

Subject: Baldwin family

Publisher: Cleveland, O, [Leader printing company]

Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT

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William Patterson Alexander (1805–1884) was an American missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii. His family continued to influence the history of Hawaii.

William Patterson Alexander was born in Paris, Kentucky on July 25, 1805. His father was James Alexander (1770–1821) and mother was Mary Rose Depuy (1765–1841).[1] He attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and then Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a distant cousin of Archibald Alexander, the founder of the Presbyterian seminary. On October 25, 1831 he married Mary Ann McKinney who was born January 5, 1810 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.[2] He was ordained October 13, 1831. They sailed on the Whaleship Averick, under Captain Swain, from New Bedford, Massachusetts, November 26, 1831, and arrived at Honolulu, May 17, 1832.[3] Alexanders and the rest of the fifth company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions arrived in April 1832 to the Hawaiian Islands.[2]

They were sent on a scouting mission to the Marquesas Islands (at the time called "Washington Islands") with Reuben Tinker and Samuel Whitney. On July 2, 1833 they then traveled back to establish a Marquesas mission with Richard Armstrong, Benjamin W. Parker with their wives via Tahiti. However, they abandoned the Marquesas to European missionaries and arrived back in Honolulu on May 12, 1834.

Father: James Alexander (1770 – 1821) Mother: Mary Rose Dean (1766 – 1841) Brother: Thomas Alexander (1799 – 1864) Children: William, James, Samuel, Henry, Mary Jane, Ann, Emily, Charles, Ellen* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 14 2020, 16:32:00 UTC