Ford, Alexander Hume
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Alexander Hume Ford
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Outrigger Canoe Club team, including Duke Kahanamoku (far right), around 1920
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Alexander Hume Ford
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Alexander Hume Ford (right) and Jack London, Waikiki, 1907
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Alexander Hume Ford's Mid-Pacific Magazine, 1911
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Alexander Hume Ford, around 1940
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See Also
History of Surfing
Above the Roar
Relentlessly energetic promoter of the Hawaiian Islands and "the art of surf-riding" in the early 20th century; founder of the Outrigger Canoe Club, surfing's first organized group. "Alexander Hume Ford is Hawaii's best booster and the busiest man in the mid-Pacific," Sunset magazine wrote of Ford in 1917. "You can't keep the man himself still long enough to really photograph him."
Ford was born (around 1868) into a wealthy South Carolina plantation family, but orphaned at an early age. He g...