Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Keola, James Nahanu Kaoaokalani November 27, 1864 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JAMES NAHANU KAOAOKALANI KEOLA, Educator and Farmer. A pioneer educator and 
journalist of Hawaii, James N. K. Keola turned his attention later to a varied 
career that included business, the law and farming, and assumed a prominent 
position among the independent agriculturists of the Territory as president of 
the Waiakea Homesteaders’ Improvement and Social Club, Hilo. He is at present 
clerk of the District Court of South Hilo.
  Born Nov. 27, 1864, at Wahiawa, Koloa, Kauai, he is the son of Dang Pang and 
Ellen Kahailipoua Dairum Keola. He was educated at the Royal School and Oahu 
College, Honolulu. He began his career as a teacher at Iolani College, 
Honolulu, in 1881, resigning the next year to accept a position on the staff 
of the Evening Bulletin, where he remained until 1886, when he joined the 
Pacific Commercial Advertiser. In 1894 he was appointed temporary editor of 
the Hawaiian newspaper, Kuokoa. 
  He became clerk of the Crown Lands Bureau in 1894 and also served in 
Honolulu post office, 1894-1895. He was clerk of the second judicial circuit 
court, 1898-1901; Maui correspondent, Evening Bulletin, 1891-1912; deputy tax 
assessor, Wailuku, Maui, 1900-1914; clerk, Maui county engineer’s office, 
1915; deputy auditor, Maui county, 1916; clerk, senate education committee, 
1917-19. He removed to Hilo in the latter year and took up a homestead at 
Waiakea, also working for the Post-Herald, Hilo, 1919-1920, and the Hilo 
Tribune, 1920-1921.
  Mr. Keola was quartermaster and lieutenant, the Queen’s Own Guards, 
Honolulu, 1885-1888; sergeant, G. Co., N.G.H., Honolulu, 1892-1898, and 
captain, I Co., N.G.H., Wailuku, Maui, 1900-1902. He was secretary of the 
executive committee of the Republican party of Maui, 1900-1904; clerk of the 
House of Representatives, Republic of Hawaii, special session 1895, and 
regular sessions of 1896 and 1898.
  He was president of the Wailuku Improvement Association,, 1910; member of 
the Hawaiian Historical Society, 1919, and has served several terms as 
president of the Waiakea Homesteaders’ Improvement and Social Club. He is a 
member of the Scientific American Home Service and secretary of the Service 
Veterans for Hawaii.
  Mr. Keola married Lilly Keliikauila Kapaehaole (deceased) at Halawa, 
Molokai, May 4, 1893, and they had two children, Mrs. Edith D. Wilmington, 
Wailuku, Maui, and Mrs. Violet K. Lanham, Honolulu. He married Rita Morris 
Alana on Maui in 1904, and they have one child, Adele Keola Brown.


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