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Robert Robson Hind (1832–1901) was a businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii from England.

Early life
Robert Robson Hind was born November 7, 1832 in Heworth, Durham, England.

Married Mary Urwin they had six children. Moved to Vancouver, British Columbia Engineer and mechanic.

Some time in the 1860s he took a job in the winter on Hawaii Island installing machinery for a cane sugar mill near Hilo. He decided to send for his family, and in 1869 moved to Maui where he opened a machine shop with William Wright. Around 1872 he worked with Samuel Thomas Alexander and Henry Perrine Baldwin on their plantation.

In 1873 moved to Sugar business in Kohala, Hawaii established Union sugar mill in what is now Kapaau, near where missionary Elias Bond had established a small sugar business to suport his church. in 1874 a fire destroyed much of the mill. It was damaged again by fire in 1878. http://records.co.hawaii.hi.us/Weblink/DocView.aspx?id=742152&page=76&dbid=0 Hawi mill and plantation. In 1888 the Hawi business was turned over to his son John and he moved to San Francisco.

Captain Cook Coffee company from James Bicknell Castle. He naturalized to become a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii on January 24, 1890, and was elected to the House of Nobles in the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1890 and 1892. In 1900 he moved back to Kona, where he died on November 26, 1901. His large estate included property in California and British Columbia in addition to Hawaii.

Family and legacy
John Hind was born August 2, 1858 at Jarrow-on-Tyne, England and married Ella Renton in Brooklyn in 1885. He then married Alice Renton in 1889, and died in 1933. Robert Renton Hind was born December 7, 1885, married Elanor Estill Jones in San Rafael, California on February 12, 1908. Phillipines was taken as a prisoner of war during World War II in 1941, and published a book about the experience after being released in 1945. John Henry Hind was born June 20, 1890, married Gladys L. Grose from Ohio on November 12, 1913, and worked as superintendent of Hawi Mill and Plantation.

Robert Hind was born January 7, 1865, married Hannah Peirce Low on April 26, 1892, and started Puuwaawaa ranch on the northern slopes of Hualālai in 1895 with his brother-in-law Eben Low. He became sole owner of the ranch 19.77528°N, -155.84222°W in 1904. He became Territory of Hawaii senator from 1917 through 1933, and died December 29, 1938. A neighborhood of Honolulu is named ʻĀina Haina for the Hind-Clarke dairy started in 1924. A main street is a loop named Hind Drive for him 21.28444°N, -157.75417°W. When the last Puuwaawaa ranch lease expired in 2000, the area became a wildlife sanctuary. William J. Paris grandson of missionary John Davis Paris married Margaret Martha Hind, September 9, 1921, daughter of Senator Robert Hind. Robert Leighton Hind was born May 30, 1893, became police commissioner from June 10, 1943 to March 1, 1947, and died October 29, 1967. Robert Leighton Hind Jr. was born March 29, 1921, elected to the Territorial House of Representatives 1949 to 1956, and died January 7, 1988.

George Urwin Hind formed a partnership with James Rolph, and a ship was named for his father. It was a copy of the ship James Rolph named for his business partner. James Matthew Hind built a house around 1900 near the Hawi mill but did not live in it very long. The houses of James and John Hind were still preserved.

His two daughters were Eleanor Margaret Hind who married ?? Sherwood or Schernstein ? and Mary or Mollie Hind who married Augustine Douglas McBryde on July 27, 1900 and died October 6, 1902, ten days after birth of a child..

Marjorie Capps Hind was born November 10, 1893, was appointed commssioner of public instruction from Jul 27, 1953, and died January 16, 1977.