Harold Kainalu Long Castle

Harold Kainalu Long Castle
Harold Kainalu Long Castle playing polo, 1914
Born	(1886-07-03)July 3, 1886 Honolulu, Hawaii, Kingdom of Hawai'i
Died	August 19, 1967(1967-08-19) (aged 81) Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii, US

Harold Kainalu Long Castle (July 3, 1886 – August 19, 1967)^[1] 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 10,000 acres (40 km²) of land on the windward side of the island of Oahu, in what was then the ahupuaʻa of Kailua, to establish his sprawling Kaneohe Ranch.^[2][3]

In 1962, he set up the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, which remains the largest private foundation based in Hawaiʻi.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[2]

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.^[4]

Family tree

v t e Castle Hawaii family tree
Angeline Lorraine Tenney (1810–1841) Samuel Northrup Castle (1808–1894) Mary Tenney (1819–1907)[i] Edward G. Hitchcock (1837–1898) Mary Tenney Castle (1838–1926) William Richards Castle (1849–1935) James Bicknell Castle (1855–1918) William Drake Westervelt (1849–1939) Caroline Dickinson Castle (1859–1941) George Herbert Mead (1863–1931)[ii] Helen Kingsbury Castle (1860–1929) William Richards Castle, Jr. (1878–1963) Harold Kainalu Long Castle (1886-1967)
Notes: "History of the Foundation Samuel N. & Mary Castle Foundation". fdnweb.org. Retrieved 2020-02-05. "Guide to the Henry Northrup Castle Papers 1863-1942". www.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-05.

See also

• Kaneohe Ranch
• Harold K.L. Castle Foundation
• James B. Castle High School
• Hawaii Loa College
• Kawai Nui Marsh

References

1. "Harold K.L. Castle Foundation: About Us: Founder and History". Archived from the original on 2008-09-15. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
2. "Punahou School: Castle Foundation". Retrieved 2009-02-23.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
3. "Kaneohe Ranch: History: Harold K.L. Castles". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
4. "History". Harold K.L. Castle Foundation. 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2020-12-11.

External links

• Kaneohe Ranch Management Limited
• Harold K.L. Castle Foundation