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Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Alexander, Wallace McKinney November 10, 1869 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WALLACE MCKINNEY ALEXANDER, Corporation Executive. Although a great part of 
his business life has been spent in San Francisco, Wallace M. Alexander, 
president of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., one of the largest corporations 
engaged in the sugar industry of the Territory, is a native of Hawaii, a 
descendant of two old and prominent missionary families, and is claimed by 
Hawaii as one of its men and one of its builders.
  Son of the late Samuel T. Alexander, one of the outstanding figures in the 
establishment of the Hawaiian sugar industry and a founder of Alexander & 
Baldwin, and Martha Eliza (Cooke) Alexander, daughter of Amos Starr Cooke, 
Wallace M. Alexander was born on the island of Maui, Nov. 10, 1869.
  His education completed at Yale University, from which he was graduated in 
1892 with a B.A. degree, Mr. Alexander two years later, in 1894, joined with 
his father, the late Henry P. Baldwin, and J. P. Cooke in the organization of 
Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., in which were consolidated the sugar plantation 
agency and commercial interests of S. T. Alexander and H. P. Baldwin. For 
thirty years Wallace M. Alexander has been associated in responsible positions 
with the San Francisco end of the business and in 1918, upon the death of J. 
P. Cooke, he was elected president of the corporation.
  Mr. Alexander is also a vice-president of the Matson Navigation Co., the 
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., and the Honolulu Consolidated Oil Co. 
of California, and is a director of the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining 
Corporation, the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the Columbia Steel Corporation.
  Active in the civic life of San Francisco, Mr. Alexander was president of 
its Chamber of Commerce, 1921-22. He was chairman of the San Francisco 
commercial commission which visited Japan in 1920 for the promotion of better 
relations, and has served as chairman of the Japanese Relations Committee of 
California. He is a director of Californians, Inc., organized to exploit the 
attractions and opportunities of California, and a director and member of the 
executive committee of the San Francisco Industrial Association. He is a 
member of the Theta Xi college fraternity, the Pacific Union and Bohemian 
clubs of San Francisco; the Commercial and Pacific clubs of Honolulu, and the 
Yale Club of New York.
  Mr. Alexander is a member of a group of San Francisco men who in 1924 
purchased the Evening Bulletin, an important and influential newspaper of that 
city.
  On Aug. 16, 1904, at Oakland, Calif., Mr. Alexander married Mary S. Barker, 
prominent in civic and welfare movements, and a daughter of the late Timothy 
L. Barker, a distinguished California pioneer who came to that state in the 
historical gold rush of 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have one child, Miss 
Martha Barker Alexander.


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