Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 4. July 26, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 3, 2008, 7:25 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands July 26, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 July 26, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - Part 4. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 4-- Important People AHIA Ahia was a Puna high chief; joined funeral journey of Kalani'opu'u; in Battle of Moku'ohai, turned against Kamahameha and joined forces of Kahekilinui'ahumanu [Kahekili]; known as a brave warrior, very tall and strong; led Puna warriors of Kiwala'o Kauikeaouli at the Battle of Molu'ohi where he was bound in lua hold and killed by Ke'eaumoku Papa'iaheahe; body offered on the alter at the heiau of Hikau; said to be a grandfather of missionary Ahia. AHIKI Konohiki ( headman of an ahupua'a land division under the chief ) of Kawainui and Ka'elepula ponds near Kailua, O'ahu. ++++++++++++++ AKAHI'ILIKAPU Daughter of 'Umi-a-Liloa ["Umi ]; half-sister of Keawenui-a-'Umi. +++++++++++++++ AHUKINI Son of La'amai-Kahiki. ++++++++++++++++ 'AHU'ULA [Ahaula] Son of Keaweikekahi'iokamamoku [Keawe]; brother of Kaolohaka-a-Kewe father of Ka'iana'ahu'ula [Ka'iana]. ++++++++++++++++ "AIHAKOKO Daughter of "Umi-a-Liloa ['Umi ] and Pi'ikea; granddaughter of Liloa and Akahiakuliana ( parents of Umi-a-Liloa]; great granddaughter of Kilanuilulumoku [Kiha] and Waiolea (parents of Liloa); great great granddaughter of Kauhollaniuimahu and Neulaokiha ( parents of Kihaniuilul'umoku) [kiha]; grea great great granddaughter of Kahoukapu and La'akapu (parents of Kauholanuiuahu; great great great great granddaughter of Kuaiwa and Kainulelani ( parents of Kahoukapu ); great great great great great granddaughter of Kalaunuiohua and Kaheka ( parents of Kuaiwa.). ++++++++++++++++++++++ 'AIKANAKA Son of Kepo'okalani and Keohohiwa ; Grandson of Kamakaeheikuli and Kame'uamoku ( parents of Kepo'okalani; Father of Keohokalole with Kama'e; grandfather of Miriam Likiliki and Queen Lili'uokalani [ Lydia Kamaka'eha Paki-Dominis Lili'ukalani], William Pitt Kalaho'olewa ( Prince Leieiohoku ), and King Kalakaua [David La'amea Kalakaua] (children of Ceaser Kapa'akea and Keohokalole); great grandfather of Princess Victoria Ka'lulani ( daughter of Archibald Scott Cleghorn and Miriam Likelike). +++++++++++++++++ 'AKAHI Aunt of Princess Pauahi [ Bernice Pauahi Paki Bishop] (1831-1884). +++++++++++++++++ 'AKAHIAKULEANA Mother of 'Umi-a-Liloa ['Umi ] with Liloa. ++++++++++++++++++ AKALELE A canoe paddler of Kahekilinui'ahumamu [Kahekili]. ++++++++++++++++++ ALAIKAUAKEKE Wife of Kaniahu; mother of Kalapana with Kanipahu. +++++++++++++++++ ALAPA'I Chieftess; Wife of John Young (II) [Keoni Ana]; companion of Princess Nahi'ena'ena [ Harriet Keopuolani ] ( daughter of King Kamehameha I ). ++++++++++++++++++ ALAPA'IMAIOIKI Son of Kuma'aiku and Keawepoepoe; Brother of Ke'eaumoku Papa'iaheahe ad Kaulunae; Mau'i chief. ++++++++++++++++ ALAPA'INUI [ ALAPA'I ] Son of Kauaua-a-Mahi and Kalanikauleleiaiwinui [Kalanikauielei'aiwi] paramount chief of Hawai'i Island; makua kane hoahanau of Kamehameha I on the side of Kamehameha's mother Keku'iapoiwa (II); Father of Keawe'opala; Brother of Ha'ae; led armies of Hawai'i Island and Moloka'i (c.1736) against the invading armies of O'ahu; after five days of fighting at Kawela ( in southern Moloka'i, the O'ahu chief Kapi'iohookalani was killed and his O'ahu army defeated; defeated Kalani'opu's warriors in battle; said to have poisoned Keouanui ( father of Kamehameha I ); wives incuded Keaka, Kamaka'imokou and Kamaua; children included Keawe'opala ( son with Keaka ), Manona ( daughter with Kamaka'imokou ) and Kauwa'a and Mahiua ( daughter and son with Kamaua ). +++++++++++++++++ ASA KA'EO Granddaughter of Manoua; great granddaughter of Manoua. +++++++++++++++++ 'AWILI Son of Keawe and Kane'alai; brother of Ha'o, Kumukoa and Kalilaumoku. ++++++++++++++++++ EDWARD BAILEY (1814-1903) Born in Holden, Massachusetts, Bailey studied languages at Amherst College and married Caroline Hubbard in 1836 before sailing a month later with the Eighth Company of American Missionaries. The couple was stationed at Kohala, 1837; Lahainaluna, 1839; and Wailuku Female Seminary 1840-1848. Bailey was a an of many talents as healer, architect, sugar planter and miller, bridge builder, musician, poet, and artist, as well as a teacher. The Bailey's left the mission in 1850 but for many years he aided in creating and maintaining the Maunaolu Girls' School at Makawao. The Couple moved to California in 1885, where Bailey died, the last male survivor of the workers sent by the Boston misson between 1820 and 1850. The Bailey's had five children. ++++++++++++++++++ RAY JEROME BAKER (1880-1972 ) Born in Rockford, Illinois, Baker was educated in St. Paul, Minnesota. He learned the art of Photography in Montana and for several years ran a photographic studio at Eureka, California, where he married Edith Frost in 1906. On a delayed honeymoon the couple visited Hawai'i in 1908 and returned to live in Honolulu in 1910. Baker not only photographed almost every street, building, and corner in the city but also traveled to some sixty countries to take pictures. He, moreover, purchased many nineteenth century photographs of the Islands to add to his collection. In 1919 and 1920 he gave a slide show and lecture in hawai'i on the Chautaqua Circuit around the midwest. Baker also produced the first two reel feature film for the Hawai'i Tourist Bureau. He experimented with timed photographs of the blooming of flowers, recording development over a period of twenty-four hours in thirty seconds on the screen. Baker was an unashambed liberal and a member of a number of local societies. He gave to the Bernice P. Bishop Museum his own collection of some twenty thousand pictures, as well as his collection of other photographs and his camera equipment. In 1976 the Ray Jerome Baker Room was opened in the Museum with an inventory of some 360,000 images of Hawai'i, some of them dating back to 1845. Baker retired from active work in 1959 and died in Honolulu just one month short of his ninety second birthday. ++++++++++++++++++++ DWIGHT BALDWIN (1798-1886) Born in Durham, Connecticut, Baldwin studied for two years at Willams College; he graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from Auburn Theological College in 1829. He attended a course of medical lectures at Harvard University but settled for a master of science degree. he was ordained at Utica, New York, 1830 and married Charlotte Fowler before sailing with the Fourth Company of American Missionaries. The couple arrived in Honolulu in 1831 and were stationed the following year at Waimea, Hawai'i. From 1835 to 1870 they served at Lahaina, Mau'. During all these years Baldwin was nor only a pastor but a busy physician; he was belatedly granted a honorary medical deploma by Dartmouth College in 1859. He began a seaman's chapel at Lahaina. He also translated into Hawai'ian a tract on temperance and the first five books of the Bible for a new edition of the New Testament. The couple had eight children, including Henry Perrine Baldwin and Mary Charlotte Alexander. ++++++++++++++++++++ HARRY ALEXANDER BALDWIN (1871-1946) Harry, the eldest son of Henry Perrine Baldwin, was born at Paliuli, Mau'i. he was educated in the grammer schools of San Francisco, at Punahou School in Honolulu, at Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. he returned to begin work as a timekeeper at the Haiku Sugar Co in 1896; two years later he was appointed manager and served until 1904, when he became head of several other plantations. He served in the Territorial Senate for five sessions, and filled the unexpired term of Prince Kalanianaole after the death of that delegate to Congress. Baldwin married Ethel Frances Smith, daughter of William Owen Smith, in 1897 and the couple had one daughter. ++++++++++++++++++ HENRY PERRINE BALDWIN (1842-1911) The most successful sugar planter in the islands was born at Lahaina, Mau'i, fourth son of the Rev. Dwight Baldwin. After attending Punahou school, the son hoped to study for a medical degree at Williams College, but begun managing a rice plantation in Hawai'i and ten turned to the cultivation of sugar cane. He worked first for his brother, Dwight Baldwin Jr., at Lahaina, and then became head of Waihee Plantation under the manageent of Samuel T. Alexander, soon to become his brother-in-law and business partner. Baldwin in 1870 married Emily Whitney Alexander ad the couple were to have eight children, including Harry A. Baldwn. Alexander and Baldwin began in 1876 the year long construction of the Hamaku-Haiku irrigation ditch, the first major project of its kind. When putting pipes down across the gorge of Maliko, the workers refused to descend on ropes. Although Baldwin had lost one arm in a mill accident, he daily worked his way down a rope and heartened the men to follow. The success of this project enabled the founding firm of Alexander & Baldwin, still a prominent corporation in the Islands. When Alexander and his family moved to California in 1883, Baldwin assumed full direction of affairs in Hawai'i and for almost thirty years thereafter was a leading businessman. The firm in 1889 established the Hawai'ian Sugar Co., on Kaua'i, and in 1902 acquired control of the Hawai'ian Commercial & Sugar Co. of Puunene, Mau'i, formally owned by Claus Spreckles. During its early years the firm operated a fleet of sailing vessels between Hawai'i and the mainland; these were later replaced by steamers of the American Hawai'ian Line and still later freighters of the Matson Navigagtion Co.; Matson is still a subsidiary of A&B. Business affairs did not keep Baldwin from serving in the Legislature from 1887 to 1903, and he also devoted a large share of his income to good works in the community. The Baldwin family has been especially prominent on the island of Mau'i up to the present. ++++++++++++++++++++ ALEKSANDER ANDREYEVICH BARANOV (1747-1819 ) As head of the Russian American Co., founded at Sitka, Alaska, in 1799, Baranov was virtually head of Russian activities in Nortwestern America until 1817. He attempeted to trade with Hawai'i and was the main supprter of the filibustering efforts of Georg Anton Scheffer. +++++++++++++++++ HENRY BARBER Barber, one of the first Captains to trade between the Northwest Coast of America and other parts of the Pacific, first arrived in Hawai'i in 1796. Departing on Holloween with a cargo of sea-otter skins obtained on the Northwestern Coat of America, he wrecked his vessel Arthur on the peninsula near Honolulu that is still called Barbers Point. Six of the crew were lost. John Young salvaged the cargo, but when, after various adventures in Alaska, Barber returned to Honolulu in December, 1802, to recover his cargo, he heard that Kamehameha had taken the ten cannon from the vessel ad mounted them in front of his house. When Barber asked for their return, the ruler refused and instead demanded that Barber hand over two kegs of gunpowder needed in the wars. The Captain was outbargained, and he had to comply to provision his ship, Myrtle, for the voyage to Sitka. +++++++++++++++++++++ CHARLES WILLIAM BARKLEY Master of Imperial Eagle, a fur-trading British ship flying Austrian colors, Barkley arrived in Hawai'i in 1787 on the way to Canton. John MacKay remained in the islands. Mrs. Fraces Hornsby Treveor Barkley was probably the first European women to visit Hawai'i. The ship took away the first Hawai'ian known to sail for foreign lands --- a woman hired to be Mrs. Barkley's maid. Her name was listed as "Wynee"; possibly this was an attempt to spell the Hawai'ian word Wahine, or woman. ++++++++++++++++++++ BARTIMEUS (BATIMEA PUAAIKI) (1785-1843) First named Puaaiki or " little pig." this Hawai'ian was blinded at an early age, but became a dancer at the Court of Kamehameha I. Because of his piety, he was the second Hawai'ian to receive baptism by the American missionaries. ( The first was the queen mother, Keopuolani.) Given the biblical neme of Bartimeus, the eloquent blind man was baptised July 10, 1825, at Lahaina, having studied with Rev. William Richards and the Rev. Charles S. Stewart. Bartimeus moved to Hilo in 1829 and then to Wailuku. Mau'i, where he remained from 1834 until his death. He became a deacon in 1839 and in 1842 the first formally licensed native preacher. In spite of his blindness and ungainly figure, he was able to attract many converts. ++++++++++++++++++++ CHARLES WILLIAM BARTLETT ( 1860-1940) The future artist was born in Bridport, Dorcetshire, England. He found his love of art was so strong that he became a student at the Royal Academy in London, and continued for three years in paris. he developed a special watercolor method that brought him wide recognitin in Europe.He went to India in 1913 and spent several years there and in China and Japan. During 1916 he learned the process of Japanese printing by wood blocks; creating Oriental scenes by this method, along with etchings made after he took up residence in Hawai'i in 1917. He became one of the best known artists in the Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in part 5. 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