Dole family.

Sanford Ballard Dole was born in Punahou, Hawaii in 1844 two years after his brother George. Their parents, Daniel and Emily Dole, came to Hawaii from Maine as missionaries in 1841. The Doles first lived in Punahou, where they opened a school for children. Emily Dole died days after giving birth to Sanford and two years later, in 1846, Daniel married Charlotte Close Knapp, a fellow missionary in Hawaii. In 1855 the Dole family moved to the island of Kauai and opened a school in Koloa, which Sanford attended. Dole attended Punahou school for one year, and then Williams College in 1866-1867. He worked in a law office in Boston for another year and moved back to Hawaii in 1868 where he practiced law. In 1873 Dole was appointed Commissioner of Private Ways and Water for the district of Kona. Also in 1873, Sanford married Anna Prentice Cate; they had no children but in 1879, they adopted a native 13-year old girl named Lizzie Napoleon.

Sanford won the 1884 and 1886 elections to the Hawaiian legislature as a representative from Kauai. King Kalakaua appointed Dole a justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Hawaii on December 28, 1887, and to a commission to revise judiciary laws on January 24, 1888. After Kalakaua's death, his sister Queen Liliuokalani appointed him to her Privy Council on August 31, 1891. After the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen in 1893, Dole was named president of the Provisional Government of Hawaii and in 1894, after a constitutional convention was held, became president of the Republic of Hawaii. After the United States government decided to annex Hawaii, Sanford was appointed governor of the territory by President McKinley in June 1900. He resigned that position in 1903 to accept an appointment by President Roosevelt to presiding Judge of the Federal District Court of Hawaii. He held that position until 1915. Sanford Ballard Dole died in 1926.

His brother, George, married Clara Rowell in 1867, and began working on several sugar plantations. They had thirteen children including Walter Dole and Herbert Dole. The family moved to Riverside, California in 1889. George H. Dole died in California in 1912.