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1837-1899
1837
Samuel Northrup Castle and Amos Starr Cooke of Boston first arrived in the Sandwich Islands as lay missionary members of the Seventh Reinforcement sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston.
1839
Hawaiian chiefs request that the Cookes provide education for the royal children who would become the future kings and queens of Hawaii. This Christian school was known as the Royal School.
1842
The United States is the first country to recognize the independence of Hawaii.
1843
King Kamehameha III asks Castle to sit on a special board as "unofficial" advisor to the monarchy. (The American Board would not allow missionaries to accept "official" political positions.)
1848
The Cookes' graduate their first students from the Royal School.
1849
Castle and Cooke form a partnership to run a private storehouse that was once the missionary depository.
1850
Castle and Cooke become naturalized subjects of the Hawaiian kingdom.
1851
Castle and Cooke obtain licenses to sell wholesale products and sign articles of partnership. Castle & Cooke hang out their sign, "Kakela Me Kuke," ("Castle & Cooke" in Hawaiian) in front of the depository.
1853
Castle & Cooke becomes the fourth largest company in Hawaii.
1856
The partnership buys a ship, the Morning Star, marking the Company's first investment in the shipping industry.
1858
Castle & Cooke enter the food business with their first investment in Hawaii's sugar industry. The Haiku Sugar Company, is the first sugar enterprise in Hawaii to raise capital through stock.
1862
Castle & Cooke named agent of Kohala Sugar Company. Castle becomes the treasurer, a position he held for 32 years.
1865
Kohala Sugar Company produces its first sugar.
1877
Castle & Cooke help finance and develop ditch irrigation and apply for water rights for the Haiku plantation and later the Maui plantation.
1887
The King of Hawaii grants the United States exclusive use of Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
1889
A railroad in Honolulu, financed by Castle & Cooke, becomes the first in Hawaii.
1889
The Company invests in and becomes agent to a new sugar development, Ewa, on the island of Oahu.
1894
Ten days after the Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed, Samuel Castle dies at age 86.
1894
Castle & Cooke is incorporated under the laws of Hawaii.
1898
The United States, under President William McKinley, annexes Hawaii.
1899
James Drummond Dole comes to Hawaii, fresh out of Harvard's School of Horticulture and Agriculture with a love of farming and a desire to set up a farming business for himself.
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