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Edmund Pearson Dole

Edmund Pearson Dole

Male 1850 - 1928  (78 years)

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  • Name Edmund Pearson Dole 
    Birth 28 Feb 1850  Skowhegan, Somerset, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 3 Jun 1880  Keene, Cheshire, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age30, born ME, lawyer, parents born ME/ME, living with Gmother-in-law 
    Census 1892  Seattle, King, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    E.P., age 42, born ME, lawyer 
    Census 27 Apr 1910  Seattle, King, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 60, born ME, divorced roomer, lawyer in own office, parents born ME/ME 
    Census 13 Jan 1920  Seattle, King, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 69, born ME, divorced lodger, lawyer, parents born ME/ME 
    Death 31 Dec 1928  Langdon, Sullivan, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 1 Jan 1929  Woodlawn Cemetery, Keene, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2254  Family Tree
    Last Modified 19 Apr 2018 

    Father Isaiah Dole,   b. 23 May 1819 
    Mother Elizabeth Todd Pearson   d. 1851 
    Family ID F1113  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Gertrude Ellen Davenport,   b. 3 May 1856, Hinsdale, Cheshire, NH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Oct 1916, Arlington, Middlesex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage 25 Feb 1878  Keene, Cheshire, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • from "New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947" (ancestry.com)
      Marriage in Keene NH on 25 Feb 1878 of Edmund P. Dole, 28, a lawyer residing Keene NH, born Bloomfield ME to Isaiah Dole b Bloomfield ME and Gertrude E Davenport, 21, residing Keene NH, born Hinsdale NH to Sylvester Davenport. 1st marriage for both.
    Children 
    +1. Henry Haile Dole,   b. 30 Jan 1882, Keene, Cheshire, NH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Dec 1961, Manchester, Hillsborough, NH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F626  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Apr 2018 

  • Photos
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    Edmund Pearson Dole Newspaper Photo
    from "The Pacific Commercial Advertiser", 1 Jan 1901 (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov)

  • Notes 
    • From "Who's who in America" by Marquis Who's Who, 1903
      DOLE, Edmund P., lawyer, author; b. Skowhegan, Me., Feb. 28, 1850; ed. Wesleyan Univ. and Boston Univ. Sch. of Law; admitted to bar 1875; now atty.-gen. Territory of Hawaii, and ex-officio head of the police dept. and mem. bd. of health of the Territory. Author: Talks About Law, 1887 H5; The Stand-By, 1897 C2; Hiwa, a Tale of Ancient Hawaii. 1900 HI. Address: Honolulu, H. I.
    • from "New Hampshire, Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947" (ancestry.com)
      Edmund P Dole, a retired lawyer, divorced, residing in Langdon NH for 4 yrs, previously in Seattle WA, born 28 Feb 1850 in Skowhegan ME to Isiah Dole, a college professor b. Skowhegan and Elizabeth Pearson b. Skowhegan, died on 31 Dec 1928 in Langdon of chronic nephritis. Burial on 2 Jan 1929 in Woodlawn Cemetery, Keene NH
    • from Biography of Edmund Pearson Dole (wikipedia)
      Edmund Pearson Dole was born February 28, 1850 in Skowhegan, Maine. His father was classical language teacher Isiah Dole (1819?1892), and his mother was Elizabeth Todd Pearson (died 1851). Dole graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1874. He married Gertrude Ellen Davenport in 1878. He studied law under Charles Robinson, Jr., graduated from law school at Boston University, and was admitted to the bar at Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He practiced as a law partner of Farnum Fish Lane in Keene, New Hampshire. He served as Cheshire County Solicitor in 1880 and 1881, similar to a modern District Attorney. He wrote a book trying to explain the law profession to the public in 1887. He then moved to Seattle in 1890. In 1891 he was offered the position of dean of a new law school in Spokane. His cousin Sanford Ballard Dole had become president of the Republic of Hawaii and wrote to him for help. By June 1895 he was practicing law in Honolulu, and acting as assistant to Henry Ernest Cooper as Attorney General of Hawaii. Dole published a novel The Stand-By in 1897 with a hero who promoted Prohibition but was in love with the daughter of a brewer. It received praise from the Honolulu press:
      Its woof of romance richly colored with incident and episode is struck into a warp of informing fact relative to one of the leading questions of the age.

      The New York Times, however, saw a more political message:
      ...as Mr Edmund P. Dole would have it, or as it seems to be written within the lines, the Republicans are the only lawabiding people on God's earth, the only virtuous, self-respecting souls, and the Democrats?quite the opposite. There is a tinge of fanaticism, then, in Mr. Dole's Romance.

      Dole replaced Cooper as attorney general on June 14, 1900. He also published his second novel Hiwa: a tale of ancient Hawaii in 1900. Dole married Eleanor Gallagher, daughter of Bernard Gallagher of San Francisco, on September 5, 1901, and they divorced in 1902. His ex-wife then became a singer in New York City. He resigned as attorney general on February 1, 1903, to argue a case in the U.S. Supreme Court at the request of Philander C. Knox who was US Attorney General. Federal District Court Judge Morris M. Estee had overturned the conviction of Osaki Mankichi because he was never indicted by a grand jury, and was convicted by a simple majority of a jury instead of unanimously. Estee ruled the court proceeding denied the accused rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. The case had the implication of invalidating many legal procedures during the time between July 1898 when the Newlands Resolution annexed Hawaii by the United States, and April 1900 when the Hawaiian Organic Act established a territorial government. The Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 that the continued operation of the Republic of Hawii legal system was valid during the transition period. Dole lived in Washington, DC for two years, then moved back to Seattle and practiced law again there. He died December 31, 1928 in Keene.