# Talk:Hiram Kahanawai

"HISTORIC RELIGIOUS EDIFICE TORN DOWN". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Vol. L, no. 8459. Honolulu. September 18, 1909. p. 3.

Queen Emma was a regular attendant and Kalakaua acted as interpreter of the sermon. He was sometimes relieved by Hiram, the husband of Poomaikelani, who was at that time a sort of steward to Queen Emma. Among the regular attendants were Theo. H. Davies, Henry May, Daniel Smith, Thomas Brown (the father of the late Mrs. Alex. McKintosh), Judge Robertson, the McKibben family, Capt. Luce, T. R. Walker and Tom May. The last three were in the Choir.
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Hiram Kahanawai (d. 1874) was a relative of Queen Emma by a junior line of descent; also a relative of David Kalakaua. Hiram had been chief steward in the royal household under Kamehameha IV and continued to serve Emma in that capacity during her widowhood. In 1874, after the election of Kalikaua to the throne, Hiram married Kapo'oloku, a younger sister of Mrs. David Kalakaua (Queen Kapi'olani), and received official appointment under the new dynasty.
An account in a Honolulu newspaper in 1957, describing how Hiram Kahanawai, the husband of Po'omaikelani (Emma's "faithful family retainer"), carefully preserved the collection down the years, is without foundation. It is fantastic to suppose that Hiram and Po'oloku could have carried off Emma's voluminous correspondence and family papers when they joined up with Kalakaua and his new regime. Indeed, the collection contains drafts of letters written by Emma together with letters received by her well into the 18 80s, years after Hiram's death and at a time when her relations with Po'omaikelani had become as cool as her dealings with Queen Kapi'olani. Though it is perhaps impossible to prove conclusively that the manuscripts were ever in her cousin's possession, strong circumstantial evidence points in the direction of Albert Kunuiakea, Emma's disappointed heir and the aging black sheep of the family. What is absolutely certain is that after the death of the Princess Po'omaikelani in 1895, the princess' ward, Virginia Kalili, and finally the ward's heirs, though persons of no prominence and with very little knowledge of things Hawaiian, preserved the mass of letters and documents for more than a quarter of a century, before disposing of them in 1932 in excellent condition to the owner of...

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Reviewer: Wizardman (talk · contribs) 22:12, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

I'll try to give this a review tonight. At least it's relatively short so shouldn't take me long. Wizardman 22:12, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Read through it twice and found no issues. It's a short article, but it doesn't feel like there's anything out there that wasn't covered here. Wizardman 02:20, 18 March 2019 (UTC)