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292:, was a Democrat, although he had worked for Dillingham at OR&L 1892–1894 and as manager of his hardware company 1898–1903. Two sons died young, Charles Augustus Dillingham (1872–1874) and Alfred Hubbard Dillingham (1880–1880). Youngest son Harold Garfield Dillingham (October 9, 1881 – December 19, 1971) married Margaret Bayard Hyde-Smith in 1908 and had 5 children. Youngest daughter Marion Eleanor Dillingham (September 23, 1883 – January 19, 1972) married John Pinney Erdman in 1904 and had five children. 162: 253:(Hilo Railroad) was a financial drain until its destruction by a tsunami in 1946. His Hawaiian Fiber Company, which operated a sisal plantation on the Ewa coral plain in southwestern Oahu, was ultimately also a failure. Nevertheless, Dillingham was one of the major business people in the early years of Hawaii's economic and industrial development. 39: 225:
He decided to stay in Honolulu and by the end of 1865 was a clerk at Diamond Hardware, which he bought out for $ 28,000 in 1869. On April 26, 1869, he married Emma Louise Smith (1844–1920), of a prominent missionary family. She was the daughter of Reverend Lowell Smith and Abigail Willis Tenney.
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Dillingham turned out to be an astute businessman, and more importantly, was always willing to take risks. In 1879 he started a dairy farm in upper Honolulu, and during the 1880s became increasingly successful. He founded the
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in 1893, he looked favorably on the American annexation in 1898, which he believed would bring long-term stability to the islands. Dillingham spent the rest of his life in Hawaii.
249:, and the Ewa and Kahuku sugarcane plantations on Oahu. While the OR&L and these sugar companies were profitable, Dillingham's Big Island railroad, the 586: 425: 601: 217:. On his third trip to the island kingdom, Dillingham broke his leg after falling from a horse and was forced to convalesce in Hawaii. 230:(OR&L) that began service in November 1889. Dillingham was well-liked among Honolulu's various communities, and he included 591: 245:
Apart from the OR&L, Dillingham was especially active in sugarcane plantations, including the Olaʻa Sugar Company on the
576: 17: 239: 492: 571: 534: 227: 250: 526: 468:(1983). "The Controversial Appointment of Lucius Eugene Pinkham, Hawaii's First Democratic Governor". 368: 161: 316: 141:(September 4, 1844 – April 7, 1918) was an American businessman and industrialist during the late 59: 338: 269:, a distant cousin of his wife and a partner in sugarcane plantation ventures, died. His son 266: 312:
The Tenney family, or, the descendants of Thomas Tenney, of Rowley, Massachusetts, 1638-1890
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Millstones and milestones: the career of B.F. Dillingham, 1844-1918
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His wife Emma Louise Smith Dillingham wrote a book of poetry on
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which was captured and destroyed by the Confederate State Army
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People associated with the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
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At the age of fourteen he became a sailor on the Yankee
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Dillingham was born on September 4, 1844, into an old
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Benjamin Dillingham

Brewster, Massachusetts
Oahu
Hawaii
Oahu Cemetery
Walter F. Dillingham
Kingdom of Hawaii
Republic of Hawaii
Territory of Hawaii

New England
Cape Cod
Massachusetts
clipper
steamer
American Civil War
barque
San Francisco
Honolulu
Oahu Railway and Land Company
King Kalākaua
Queen Liliʻuokalani
overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Big Island
Hawaii Consolidated Railway
Oahu Cemetery
James Bicknell Castle
Walter F. Dillingham
Diamond Head

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