Prince Kuhio: Royal Prince Of The Hawaiian Kingdom

Royal Prince of the Hawaiian Kingdom

Prince Kuhio was born in Koloa, Kaua’i on March 26, 1871 between David Kahalepouli Pi’ikoi and Princess Victoria Kuhio Kinoike Kekaulike. His full name is Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole Pi’ikoi. His families were a Hawaii’s ancient royal families. Kuhio was born in wealth family and rank on the Kaua’i island in the 1871. He is the youngest son of his family. His parents, David and Victoria, died when he was still a small child. After their death, he and his brother David Kawananakoa and Edward Abner Keli’lahonui Pi’ikoi went to live with their aunt, Kapi’olani and her husband Kalakaua. Their relationship with adoptive parents were really strong. Kalakaua named Kuhio and his brothers princes when Kalakaua became a King. And he placing them in the list of line of succession to the throne. The young princes think seriously about royal rules and study

really hard long time to prepare for their future position with the government and possibility of one of them might take a throne. In 1893 their possibilities to take throne got higher with the overthrow of Hawaiian monarchy and Queen Lili’uokalani, this was the time when Kuhio was 21 years old.
Republican
Republican leaders of United States want to control the politics and government in the Hawaii island, so they tried to find a person who could possible to collect Hawaiian votes to defeat the Home Rule party's candidate. Then republicans found a man called Prince Jonah Kuhio. He was a man who have many reputation and accomplishment which were royal prince of the Hawaiian Kingdom, delegate to the U.S. Congress, and revolutionary and ex convict, and dispossessed heir to the throne.
Family of Prince Kuhio
•Parents
David Kahelepouli Pi’ikoi:
Father of Prince Kuhio and his brothers was born in 1845.

His parents was High Chief Jonah Pi’ikoi and Kehakili, daughter of High Chiefs. Because of his mother he was the nephew of Kapaakea and he was a cousin of Kalakaua, Lili’uokalani, Likelike and Leleiohoku II. In 1861 February 25, he married with Princess Victoria Kinoiki Kekaulike. She is the Queen Kapi’olani’s sister and Kapi'olani is the wife of Kalakaua who is the cousin of David. Pi’ikoi died in 1880.

Victoria Kuhio Kinoike Kekaulike:

Mother of Prince Kuhio and his brothers was a Kingdom of Hawaii’s princess. She was born in 1843 May 12. Her father Kuhio Kalaniana’ole was a chief of Hilo and her mother was a princess of Kaua’i island who name is Kinoiki Kekaulike. Also she was a cousin of the Kamehameha Dynasty because of her father Kuhio. Her sister Kapi'olani’s husband became the king in 1874, because of that she was granted as a Princess and Royal Highness at King’s coronation in 1883. She died on January 8, 1884 in Honolulu by heart disease.

•Spouse

Elizabeth Kahanu

Kalaniana’ole:
She was a wife of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole. She was born on March 8, 1879 in Makawao, Maui. Her family was dropped from the Royalty of Maui. In 1922 her husband Jonah Kuhio died and buried in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii. One year after Kuhio’s death, she remarried to James Frank Woods. On February 20, 1932, she died at Queen’s Hospital. She was a President of the Native Sons and Daughters of Hawaii. She was buried at the same place as Kuhio buried, the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii.
•Siblings
David Kawananakoa:
Brother of Kuhio, he was a Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii and he found the House of Kawananakoa. He was born February 19, 1868 at the Pauoa Valley in Honolulu. He was the oldest son of Pi’ikoi family. His family name “Kawananakoa” was made personally for him, and his children take that name for their family name and use it for the name of their monarchical Royal House. In 1902 he married with Abigail Wahi’ika’ahu’ula Campbell and they got three children. He died on June 2, 1908 in San Francisco because of pneumonia. He was buried in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii.
Edward Abner Keli’lahonui Pi’ikoi:
Brother of Kuhio, he was born on May 13, 1869 at Pauoa Valley, in Honolulu. He and brothers was attended Saint Matthew’s School in San Mateo, California. This school is a private Episcopal military school. He got ill when he attending school in California and he was sent home from school. Shortly after he arrived at home he died of Typhoid fever on September 21, 1887 when he was still eighteen years old. He was buried at Royal Mausoleum.