James Kaliokalani

James Kaliokalani
Born	May 29, 1835
Died	April 2, 1852 (aged 16) Lahaina, Maui
House	Kalākaua
Father	Caesar Kapaʻakea
Mother	Analea Keohokālole

James Kaliokalani (1835–1852) was a Hawaiian noble, member of the House of Kalākaua and brother of the last two rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Kaliokalani was born on May 29, 1835.^[1] His father was High Chief Caesar Kapaʻakea and mother High Chiefess Analea Keohokālole who were advisors to the reigning king Kamehameha III. He was the older brother of David Kalākaua, Lydia Kamakaeha, Anna Kaiulani, Kaʻiminaʻauao, Miriam Likelike, and William Pitt Leleiohoku II.

He was hānai to (adopted by) his maternal grandfather High Chief Aikanaka.^[2] He attended the Royal School, founded in 1839 to westernize the Hawaiian royal children, run by American missionaries Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke. His sister Lydia Kamakaeha and his brother David Kalākaua also attended the school. He was declared eligible to succeed the throne with the approval of the Privy Council by the orders of King Kamehameha III. He was once found in the room of Emma Rooke and severely punished by Cooke. Emma was not punished because her schoolmate Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau may have been with Emma and others. Emma was nine years old at the time and would one day marry Kamehameha IV.

He would never become king himself. Kaliokalani died at Lahaina on April 2, 1852, aged 16 in a measles epidemic.^[3] The Hawaiian newspaper The Polynesian stated that he died on April 21 instead.^[4]

Ancestry

Ancestors of James Kaliokalani

16. High Chief Kameʻeiamoku               8. High Chief Kepoʻokalani                       17. High Chiefess Kamakaʻeheikuli               4. High Chief Kamanawa II                             18. High Chief Kalaninuiamamao of Kaʻū               9. High Chiefess Alapaʻiwahine                       19. High Chiefess Kaolanialiʻi               2. High Chief Caesar Kapaʻakea                                   20. High Chief Kaʻihelemoana               10. High Chief Kanepawale                       21. High Chiefess Kaʻopa               5. High Chiefess Kamokuiki                             22. High Chief Kaʻehunuiamamaliʻi               11. High Chiefess Uaua                       23. High Chiefess Koʻi               1. James Kaliokalani                                         24. High Chief Kameʻeiamoku (= 16)               12. High Chief Kepoʻokalani (= 8)                       25. High Chiefess Kamakaʻeheikuli (= 17)               6. High Chief ʻAikanaka                             26. High Chief Keaweaheulu of Waiʻanae               13. High Chiefess Keohohiwa                       27. High Chiefess ʻUlulani of Hilo               3. High Chiefess Analea Keohokālole                                   28. High Chief Makakaualiʻi               14. High Chief Kahoalani Eia                       29. High Chiefess Kapalaoa               7. High Chiefess Kamaʻeokalani                             30. High Chief Ahaula               15. High Chiefess Keakaula                       31. High Chiefess Kawehe

References

1. Sheldon Dibble (1843). History of the Sandwich Islands. Lahainaluna: Press of the Mission Seminary. p. 292.
2. The Hawaiian Chiefs' Children's School by Amos Starr Cooke, Juliette Montague Cooke, Mary Atherton Richards, page 62.
3. All about Hawaii. The University of Michigan, page 19.
4. "Died". The Polynesian. May 8, 1852.