21 Facts About James Dole

James Dole established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company which was later reorganized to become the Dole Food Company that operates in over 90 countries.

James Dole was born on September 27,1877, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to an American Puritan family long settled in the country since colonial America times.

James Dole's father was Charles Fletcher Dole, a Unitarian minister, and his mother was Frances Drummond.

In 1899, James Dole obtained his bachelor's degree in agriculture from the Bussey Institution of Harvard University.

James Dole purchased a 64-acre government homestead in the central plains of the island of Oahu at.

James Dole's farm grew, and Dole constructed a cannery and packing plant in the town of Wahiawa.

Soon, yields and popularity of his product proved greater than he expected and James Dole built a new cannery and packing plant near Honolulu Harbor.

That same year, 1907, James Dole purchased magazine advertisements to promote his canned pineapples.

James Dole developed the first nationwide consumer ad campaign in the United States and was successful.

In 1913, James Dole invested in a new machine invented by Henry Gabriel Ginaca that could peel and core 35 pineapples every minute.

Rival pineapple companies slowly began to adopt the Ginaca machine, seeing how much James Dole improved his business with the introduction of new technologies.

However, this was about to change as James Dole was to corner the market and turn it into a single mighty industry dominated by a small group of companies who mass-produced the fruit for the rest of the global market.

James Dole contributed reward money to find the missing planes, but no trace was ever found.

James Dole married Belle Dickey in Jamaica Plain on November 23,1906.

James Dole's wife was the sister of architect Charles William Dickey, a member of another missionary family.

Sanford James Dole had asked to avoid using the James Dole name for products, but it had become well-known, at least within Hawaii.

James Dole suffered from various ailments in retirement; the worst were a series of strokes.

James Dole was buried in Makawao Union Church cemetery near Makawao, Hawaii, on the island of Maui.

James Dole's grave overlooked the slopes of Haleakala and the vast pineapple fields of what was at the time his Maui pineapple plantation.

The tourist attraction known as the James Dole Plantation was established in 1950 as a small fruit stand in the middle of James Dole's original pineapple fields.

In 1991, the James Dole Cannery closed its operations and was transformed into a multi-purpose facility with media studios, conference rooms and ballrooms.