Honolulu County HI Archives Biographies.....Akana, Akaiko (Rev.) December 21, 1884 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

Akana, Rev. Akaiko: Pastor Kawaiahao Church; member Hawaiian Homes Commission.

     Born Dec. 21, 1884, Kaihuwai, Waialua, Oahu, son of Chun and Harriet
(Kahema) Akana: member Board of Regents University of Hawaii; president
Christian Endeavor Association of Hawaii (1912-30): organizer and secretary of
the Hawaiian Protective Association (1913-1916); trustee United Society of
Christian Endeavor of the World (Boston, Mass., 1913); member of Anti-Narcotic
Commission; member of the Hartford Theological Seminary and Hartford School of
Pedagogy Alumni Association. Hartford Ministerial Association: Child Welfare
Commission, Kamehameha Alumni Association, Chinese Students’ Alliance of Hawaii,
Hawaiian Civic and Honolulu Ad clubs: author, “An Inductive Study of the Effects
of Tobacco on Human Life.”

     Pastor since 1918 of the famed Kawaiahao Church, “The Westminster Abbey of
Hawaii.” and member since its Inception of the Hawaiian Homes Commission which
is charged by federal statute with the endeavor to rehabilitate the Hawaiian
race, as well as member of other church and civic improvement organizations.
Rev. Akaiko Akana long has been a leader of religious and social welfare work.

     Inspired toward education at the age of 14 by a teacher at Waialua, Rev.
Akana begun to save to defray the expenses of his schooling, worked his way
through Kamehameha School for Boys, graduating in 1903, and attended the
Territorial Normal School until 1904 when he began teaching at Kaneohe School.
Answering a call to the ministry, he attended the Hartford School for Religious
Pedagogy and Ihe Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn., from 1906 to
1911. Serving under the Home Mission Board of Massachusetts in the summers of
1910 and 1911, Rev. Akana became an official of the Hawaiian Evangelical
Association of Hawaii in November of the latter year. He organized the Young
People’s League of Honolulu in 1912, and on May 28 of that year he was ordained
into the Christian ministry. After six years of work among the younger people of
Hawaii as president of the Christian Endeavor Society, and with entire charge of
this branch of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, Rev. Akana was named on September
1. 1918, to his present pastorate at Kawaiahao Church.


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