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William Keolaloa Kahānui Sumner, Jr. was born circa 1816, the eldest son of Captain William Sumner (1786–1847) and High Chiefess Keakua'aihue Kanealai Hua. Captain Sumner, from Northampton, was an early settler of Hawaii who arrived in 1807 as a cabin boy.
Born in 1839, Nancy Wahinekapu Sumner was a member of the Sumner family of part English, Hawaiian, and Tahitian descent. [1] She was the only child of William Keolaloa Kahānui Sumner, a hapa-haole (part Caucasian) Hawaiian high chief, and Manaiʻula Tehuiariʻi, a Tahitian princess and relative of the Pōmare Dynasty of Tahiti.
Elizabeth Sumner Chapman Achuck Lapana Keawepoʻoole (December 24, 1851 – February 22, 1911) was a Hawaiian high chiefess during the Hawaiian Kingdom and lady-in-waiting of Princess Likelike.
Tombstone of John ʻĪʻī in Oahu Cemetery. He left a first-hand account chronicle from 1866 until his death in a series of articles in the Hawaiian language newspaper Ka Nupepa Ku'oko'a. [7]
Honolulu mayor John H. Wilson was her son. [53] Rose Tribe was handmaiden and musical protégée to Liliʻuokalani and traveled with her retinue. She was a soprano soloist who, after the queen's death, accompanied herself on the ukulele, appearing on radio shows and on stage. Tribe gained a reputation as "the soprano with the million dollar smile".
John Burke Krasinski (/ k r ə ˈ z ɪ n s k i /; [1] born October 20, 1979) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), where he was also a producer and occasional director.
The French Admiral De Tromelin invaded Honolulu in 1849, causing $100,000 in damage and took the king's yacht, Kamehameha III, which was sailed to Tahiti. [21] Hawaiʻi escaped French annexation because the balance of American, British, and French interests in the islands made it impossible for any of the three nations to annex the islands.
Attached with the fame and heroization of Capt. Cook the person are a series of depictions of the Death of Cook, e.g., by eyewitness John Webber (oil, watercolor; also engraving based on latter), [90] by John Cleveley who accompanied the voyage but was not at the scene, [91] and oil painting by the German Johann Zoffany. [91] [i]