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Dole plc traces its origins to the foundation of Castle & Cooke in 1851, and Charles McCann's Fish, Fruit and Vegetable Market in the 1850s in Ireland. [8] [9] Castle & Cooke, a sugar and logistics company, was founded in Hawaii by Amos Starr Cooke and Samuel Northrup Castle.
James Dole was born on September 27, 1877, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (now part of Boston), to an American Puritan family long settled in the country since colonial America times. His father was Charles Fletcher Dole , a Unitarian minister , and his mother was Frances Drummond.
Dole plc — an American agricultural multinational corporation, that is the largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dole Food Company . Founded on Oahu in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1851, it is now headquartered in Dublin , Republic of Ireland .
Dole's cousin, Edmund Pearson Dole, came to Hawaii to practice law in 1895, and became Attorney General of Hawaii from 1900 to 1903. [30] Another cousin, James Dole, came to Hawaii in 1899 and founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company on Oahu, which later became the Dole Food Company. [31] James' father Charles Fletcher Dole also came to Hawaii in ...
Dole Food Company The Standard Fruit Company (now Dole plc ) was established in the United States in 1924 by the Vaccaro brothers . Its forerunner was started in 1899, when Sicilian Arberesh immigrants Joseph, Luca and Felix Vaccaro, together with Salvador D'Antoni, began importing bananas to New Orleans from La Ceiba , Honduras .
George W. Dole (February 1800 – April 13, 1860) was a businessman and early settler of Chicago. He has been dubbed Chicago's "father of the provisions, shipping and elevator business. [ 2 ] Dole opened Chicago's first grocery store and started the city's meatpacking industry.
Cirque du Monde: A social action project founded in 1994 designed to reach marginalized youth nationally and internationally by teaching circus arts and skills. [ 11 ] [ 148 ] One Drop : In 2007, Cirque du Soleil founded One Drop, a charitable project designed to bring clean water to developing countries.
Daniel Dole (1808–1878), missionary who founded Punahou School; Edmund Pearson Dole (1850–1928), lawyer and Hawaii attorney general; Elizabeth Dole, (born 1936), U.S. politician, former U.S. Senator and former U.S. Cabinet member, wife of "Bob" Dole; George Dole (wrestler) (1885–1928), American sport wrestler; James Dole (1877–1958 ...