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,…
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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…
Born in Lihu‘e, the daughter of Filipino paniolo John Malina Sr. and Keokilele Halemanu Punana Ukeke, Nani Malina Alapa‘i (1874-1928) was for over 20 years…
Peter Malina (1877-1950), born in Lihu‘e, the son of John Malina and Keokilele Halemanu Ukeke Malina, was a jailor from 1909 until the mid-1920s at…