Martha Alexander Gerbode (1909-1971): Environmentalist, Philanthropist, and Volunteer in the San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii. Interviews with Garland Farmer, Huey Johnson, Clarisse Stockholm, Georgiana G. Stevens, Esther Fuller, Maryanna Shaw, Aaron Levine, J. Russell Cades.
Berkeley, California: Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1995. Hardbound. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo (original photo tipped in), xiii, 320 pp., original b/w photos tipped-in, reproductions of a few newspaper clippings, program for a dinner in honor of Magnin at the Wilshire Avenue Synagogue bound in, abbreivated biography of Rabbi Magnin, a couple of reprints of LA Times articles bound in, reproductions of Magnin's correspondence related to General George S. Brown, index. Very Good. Item #84936
With an introduction by Maryanna Shaw Stockholm. Martha Alexander Gerbode descended from the Alexander missionary family, which traveled from New England to Hawaii in 1830. The family later helped create Alexander & Baldwin, one of the biggest sugar companies in Hawaii. Alexander & Baldwin now has vast land holdings in Hawaii. The company built up a significant shipping business in order to move Sugar. The shipping aspect of the business is now the more significant part of the business. Martha Gerbaode created the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation in honor of her son who died young in an accident.
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