Born in Colorado, Kaua‘i Harbormaster John “Captain Jack” Bertrand (1891-1971) ran away from home in Nova Scotia at the age of 12 or 14 to…
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Born at Kilauea, Kaua‘i, Tetsuo Sato (1909-1979) was a cabinetmaker, finish carpenter and master Hawaiian koa canoe builder noted for the restoration of the prize…
The eighth of eight sons of American Protestant missionaries Abner and Lucy Wilcox of Waioli, Kaua‘i, Henry Harrison Wilcox was born in Hanalei in 1858,…
Aylmer Robinson (1888-1967) was born at Makaweli into a family that had owned the island of Ni‘ihau since 1864, when his great-grandmother, Scottish-born Eliza Sinclair,…
Edward Henry Walton Broadbent (1872-1947) was born in New Zealand and was trained there as a blacksmith prior to his moving to Hawaii in 1891…
Keokilele Halemanu Punana Ukeke’s (1839-1913) genealogy, published in 1998, lists nearly 700 descendants by her 20 children from two marriages. That number of descendants is…
In 1876, Capt. James Makee (1813-1879) and his son-in-law, Col. Zephaniah S. Spalding (1837-1927), founded Makee Sugar Co. on several thousand acres of land at…
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone Bahr, a resident of Northern Virginia and an attorney with the U.S. Department of Defense specializing in international and treaty law, is…
Placido D. Valenciano (1917-2012) of Makaweli, fought in the ring on Kaua‘i, Honolulu and the Big Island as an amateur from the ages of 16…
Beginning circa 400 AD and continuing over a number of succeeding centuries, Polynesian sea voyagers from the Marquesas and Tahiti became the first people to…