Statewide County HI Archives News.....Important People - Part 21. August 13, 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 September 3, 2008, 7:40 pm Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands August 13, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 13, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands Important People - part 21. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part 21 Important people -- BENEHAKAKA KANAHELE On December 7, 1941, a Japanese plane attempting to return to its carrier, crash landed on the small island of Niihau. Kanahele and his wife were held as hostages by the pilot. During a fight several days later, the middle aged Kanahele was shot three times but crushed the Japanese to death, while his wife grappled with the pilot's supporter, a beekeeper named Harada. At the end of Wold War II, Kanahele was awarded the Purple Heart and the Medal of Merit for his defense of Niihau. This was the only act of conflict with an enemy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. ++++++++++++++++ CHARLES KANAINA ( 1801 -1877 ) A friend of Kamehameha, in 1821, he was given Kekauluohi, the fifth wife of Kamehameha II. Her first male child became King Lunalilo. Kamehameha III married Kanaina's adopted daughter, Kalama. +++++++++++++ JAMES YOUNG KANEHOA (1797 -1851 ) Son of John Young, he left for England with Kamehameha II and is party to serve as interpreter and bearer of official papers. Kanehoa missed the L'Aigle at Rio de Janeiro and the party arrived withot the documents that would convince George IV that this was the ruler of the Sandwich Islands. Kanehoa turned up later on a coaling vessel. In 1845, he was a member of the board to quiet land titles. +++++++++++++++ KANEKAPOLEI A chiefess of high rank. She was the wife of Kalaniopupu and her fears aroused the crowd to attack Captain James Cook on February 14,1779. She was the mother of twin sons, Keoua Kuahuula and Keoua Peeale. After the death of Kalaniopupu she became a wife of Kamehameha I and by him had his first born son, Pauli Kaoleiku, who died mysteriously in 1816. ++++++++++++++ PAUL KANOA ( 1802 -1885 ) Kanoa was born at South Kona; his mother was named Kepaa. He lived with Dr. Gerrit P. Judd and was clerk to Governor Mataio Kekuanaoa. Kanoa served as governor of Kaua'i from 1847 to 1877, when he resigned. He was a member of the House of Nobles until 1882, and of the privy council until his death. ++++++++++++++ CAESAR KAPAAKEA ( 1817? -1866 ) A son of Kamanawa and Kamokuiki, Kapaakea married Keohokalole in 1835. Among their six children were Lydia Kamakaeha Liliuokalani, Miriam Likelike, David Kalakaua, and William Pitt Leleiohoku. +++++++++++++++ JOHN MAKINI KAPENA ( 1843 -1887 ) Born at Lahaina, son of Maniki, advisor to kings, Kapena was educated at the Royal School and Punahou. In 1863 he married Emma Malo. He was appointed a circuit judge of O'ahu in 1873 and as governor of Mau'i the following year. He accompanied King Kalakaua to the United States in 1874 and served as minister of finance in 1876 and minister of foreign affairs in 1878. He left for Tokyo in 1882 as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Japan. On his return he again served as minister of finance and, in 1883, as a member of the Board of Education. He acted as collector general of customs until his resignation in 1887, the year of his death. He was a scholar of Hawai'iana. ++++++++++++ KAPIOLANI (1781 -1841 ) She was the daughter of kapu chief Keawemauhili; her mother, Kekikipaa, was the daughter of Kameeiamoku. Married to Naihe, she was converted by the Protestant missionaries and carried out a testament to her new faith by leading a march from Kona to the edge of Kilauea Volcano in 1824. Here she defied the goddess Pele by breaking the usual tabu and proclaiming the might of Jehovah. The party withdrew without being overwelmed by fire from an enraged deity, and the Hilo mission was enlarged by ninety converts. Lord Tennyson, the English poet laureate, wrote a dramatic poem, " Kapiolani." about the incident. ++++++++++++++ QUEEN KAPIOLANI (1834 -1899 ) Kapiolani, a niece and namesake of the chieftess who defied Pele, was the grandaughter of King Kaumualii of Kaua'i. Two of her sisters were Virginia Kapooloku Poomaikelani and Esther Kinoike Kekaulike ( who married David Piikoi ). During her first marriage --- to a chief named Bennett ( Benet ) Namakeha -- she acted as governess of the little Prince Albert. She married David Kalakaua in 1863 and was crowned with him in 1883 on the ninth anniversary of his accession to the throne. She received royal honors when she attended the jubilee of Queen Victoria of Great Britain in 1887, visiting the American president,Grover Cleveland, on the trip. Kalakaua and Kapiolani had no children. After his death, the queen dowager concerned herself with the welfare of the Hawai'ian women. She established and helped to support the Kapiolani Maternity Home and the Kapiolani Home for Leper Girls. ++++++++++++++ DEBORAH KAPULE ( 1798 - 1853 ) Kapule was a favorite queen of King Kaumualii of Kaua'i. Widowed by his death in 1824, she married Simon Kaiu. Although she helped to contain the abortive Kaua'i rebellion led by George P. Kaumualii, she suffered imprisionment on O'ahu for a time and loss of most of her property. ++++++++++++++ ICHITARO KATSUKI (1866-1967 ) Born in Osaka, Japan, the son of an industrialist, Katsuki graduated from San Francisco High School in 1888 and was the first Japanese physician educated in the United States. He graduated from the University of California School of Medicine in 1896. He was sent to Hawai'i by the San Francisco Health Department to investigate the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900. He remained as a pioneer physician among the Japanese plantation workers in O'ahu. After thirty six years of practice, he retired and traveled to the Far East, studying genetics. He was honored by the Hawai'i Medical Association in 1963 and was a life member of the American Red Cross fom 1919. A variety of hibiscus is named for Katsuki. Dr. Katsuki lived to the age of 101 years. +++++++++++ KAUMUALII [ TAMOREE ] (1780? - 1824 ) The future King of the island of Kaua'i was the son of Kaeo and his wife Kamakahelei. In 1779 a certain Keawe, Kamakahelei's son by a previous marriage, was placed on the throne, but Kaeo thereafter supported his son Kaumualii. During the three visits of George Vancouver, this British Captain found the young prince Kaumualii ruling the island, aided by a chief named Inamoo acting as a regent in the absence of Kaeo ( who was killed on O'ahu at the end of 1794 ). Vancouver gave the Prince the name of George in honor of his fellow monarch of England. In February, 1796, Keawe was attempting to dethrone Kaumualii and succeeded in this effort, but Keawe died a year or two later and the Prince was restored to power. Young Kaumualii was handsome and accomplished, and learned to speak English; he was one of the best swimmers in all the islands. By gathering arms and enlisting foreigners in his defense efforts, he resisted the aims of Kamehameha I to conquor Kaua'i by force. However, in 1810 Captain Nathan Winship persuaded Kaumualii to go to O'ahu. There he faced Kamehameha and, perhaps overawed by the growing fleet off Honolulu, agreed to become his subject; after his death Kaua'i would peacefully become part of the realm of the conquor. Some of the chiefs plotted to kill Kaumualii at this time; when Isaac Davis revealed teir plans, he was poisoned but the young king escaped back to Kaua'i. Kaumualii took a leading role in the movement led by Georg Anton Scheffer which resulted in Russian occupation of Kaua'i in 1816 and 1817. However, in the latter year Kaumualii supplied sandalwood when Kamehameha desired to purchase the vessel Columbia, and later joined with Boki and others in trading ventures in the Pacific. Kaumualii approved the breaking of the ancient kapus by Kamehameha II in 1819, and was overjoyed when his long lost son George P. Kaumualii turned up on the first missionary vessel to th islands in 1820. In 1821, Kamehameha II made a visit to Kaua'i and was received royally, and some weeks later he persuaded Kaumualii to return to Honolulu with him as fuedal subject. Thereafter Kaumualii was a virtual prisoner of state. He also endured a marriage with the dowager queen Kaahumanu on October 9, 1821; to make the affair more binding, the queen also married her husband's son, Kealiiahonui. Kaumualii died in Honolulu in May, 1824. His son George claimed that the death was caused by poison, and led a brief revolt on Kaua'i. Thus ended the traditional rulership of one of te main islands of the group; thereafter, Kaua'i was part of Kamehameha's kingdom. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Continued in part 22 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan42nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 9.7 Kb