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130:(1853–1936) and mother was Alice Gay Robinson who was his father's cousin. This made him double great-grandson of family matriarch Elizabeth McHutchison Sinclair (1800–1892). Besides various properties on Kauaʻi, the family owned the entire island of
197:, turned Democratic. He never married, so when he died on April 3, 1967, the family estates went to his youngest brother Lester. The Gay & Robinson sugar business shut down in 2009 after 120 years.
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234:Sinclair-Robinson family tree
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139:St. Mathew's Military School
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1061:Edward R. Stepien (1988).
1022:University of Hawaii Press
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1195:"The Sinclair family"
258:Elizabeth McHutcheson
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494:Isabella McHutcheson
250:Francis W. Sinclair
706:Eric Alfred Knudsen
455:Charles B. Robinson
137:He was sent to the
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201:Family tree
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51:May 6, 1888
1269:Categories
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968:References
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154:plantation
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1224:web shots
929:(b. 1941)
667:Alice Gay
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177:palm tree
151:sugarcane
93:Alice Gay
86:Parent(s)
1249:Archived
1199:web site
1153:April 3,
956:See also
116:Makaweli
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132:Niʻihau
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