:Harold Kainalu Long Castle
{{Short description|American landowner and philanthropist (1886–1967)}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Harold Kainalu Long Castle
|image=Harold Kainalu Long Castle playing polo, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1914.jpg
|caption=Harold Kainalu Long Castle playing polo, 1914
|birth_date={{birth date|1886|07|03|mf=y}}
|birth_place=Honolulu, Hawaii, Kingdom of Hawai'i
|death_date={{death date and age|1967|08|19|1886|07|03|mf=y}}
|death_place= Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii, US
}}
Harold Kainalu Long Castle (July 3, 1886 – August 19, 1967){{cite web |url=http://www.castlefoundation.org/founder-history.htm |title=Harold K.L. Castle Foundation: About Us: Founder and History |accessdate=2009-02-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915223218/http://castlefoundation.org/founder-history.htm |archivedate=2008-09-15 }} was a landowner, real estate developer, and later a philanthropist in Hawaii.
Life
Harold Kainalu Long Castle was born July 3, 1886, in Honolulu.
Castle was the son of wealthy landowner James Bicknell Castle and Julia White, and grandson of Castle & Cooke founder Samuel Northrup Castle and philanthropist Mary Tenney Castle. In 1917, he purchased almost {{convert|10000|acre|km2}} of land on the windward side of the island of Oahu, in what was then the ahupua{{okina}}a of Kailua, to establish his sprawling Kaneohe Ranch.{{cite web |url=http://www.punahou.edu/page.cfm?p=1177 |title=Punahou School: Castle Foundation |accessdate=2009-02-23 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |url=http://www.kaneoheranch.com/history/harold-castle.cfm |title=Kaneohe Ranch: History: Harold K.L. Castles |accessdate=2009-02-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517112116/http://www.kaneoheranch.com/history/harold-castle.cfm |archivedate=2008-05-17 }}
In 1962, he set up the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, which remains the largest private foundation based in Hawai{{okina}}i. He and his foundation have donated large amounts of land to educational and other public institutions, including Hawaii Loa College, ʻIolani School, Castle High School, Kainalu Elementary School, Castle Medical Center, and the Mokapu peninsula land that became Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
He and his wife, Alice Hedemann, both graduated from Punahou School; he served on its Board of Trustees (1922–1937), and their descendants have continued to attend and support the school.
Plantation Estate, his home in Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii, was used by Barack Obama as a Winter White House during Christmas vacations in 2008, 2009, and 2010.{{Cite web|date=2014-03-05|title=History|url=http://castlefoundation.org/about/history/|access-date=2020-12-11|website=Harold K.L. Castle Foundation|language=en-US}}
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See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509094354/http://www.kaneoheranch.com/ Kaneohe Ranch Management Limited]
- [http://www.castlefoundation.org Harold K.L. Castle Foundation]
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Category:20th-century American philanthropists
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