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Street running through the Mānoa campus, University of Hawaiʻi, Honolulu, named for Sanford B. Dole, son of the missionary Reverend Daniel Dole, born in Honolulu in 1844. He was jurist, president of the Provisional Government 1893-1894, president of the Republic of Hawaiʻi 1895-1898, and first governor of the Territory of Hawaiʻi 1898-1903. He died in 1926. A relative, James Dole, planted the first pineapples for canning in 1900 on land acquired from the government at Wahi-a-wā, Oʻahu; in 1901 he organized the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. He had a simple frame house on Dole Street, Wahi-a-wā, and in 1919 he bought the George Davies home on Green Street, Honolulu, distinguished by a circular turret.