Life
Agnes Baldwin Alexander was born July 21, 1875 in Honolulu when it was the Kingdom of Hawaii. Her father was educator William DeWitt Alexander (1833–1913) and mother was Abigail Charlotte Baldwin. Both sets of her grandparents were Christian missionary couples: Dwight Baldwin and Charlotte Fowler Baldwin, and William Patterson Alexander and Mary Ann McKinney Alexander.
She became a Bahá'í in 1900 while visiting Italy. In November 1914 she moved to Japan, at the request of `Abdu'l-Bahá, where she lived most of her life except during WWII and the last few years of her life when she retired to Hawaii. There she studied Esperanto also at his request, and became a member of the Universal Esperanto Association. The rest of her life, she used her ties to Esperanto to pierce language barriers and talk to others about the Bahá'í Faith.
She was appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi on March 27, 1957. She died January 1, 1971 in Hawaii.
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