Yale awarded him an honorary Doctor of laws degree in 1903 . He died February 21 , 1913 at the Queen 's Medical Center in Honolulu . He and his wife are buried in the cemetery at Kawaiahaʻo Church , across the street from where he was born . Daughter Mary Charlotte Alexander ( 1874 – 1961 ) wrote a biography of both her grandfathers and a history of Hawaii . Daughter Agnes Baldwin Alexander ( 1875 – 1971 ) became a follower of the Bahá ' í Faith and author . She learned the Esperanto language and moved to Japan . He had sons William Douglas Alexander ( 1861 – 1936 ) , Arthur Chambers Alexander ( 1863 – 1954 ) , and Henry Edward Mansfield Alexander ( June 10 , 1868 — August 22 , 1900 ) . William Douglas ( sometimes called W.D. Alexander Jr. ) , was in San Francisco during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake . He survived with only a few important papers stuffed in his coat . Arthur became a professor of Physics at the University of California , Berkeley and authored his own textbook
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
William DeWitt Alexander