James Keauiluna Kaulia (August 16, 1860 – April 20, 1902) was a Native Hawaiian politician and patriotic leader during the opposition to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the annexation of Hawaii to the United States.
Life
He served as the President of Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League), from 1896 until 1900
Co-lead with David Kalauokalani, the 1897–1898 Hawaiian Commission to Washington, DC, bearing Kūʻē Petitions. [1]
Vice-President of the Home Rule Party of Hawaii
James Keauiluna Kaulia—community lead- ership, politics. James Kaulia was born on 16 August 1860 at Hōlualoa, Kona, Hawaiʻi. His parents were G. W. and Eva Laioha. When he was three years old, he was adopted by G. and Mikala Ahia. The family moved to Honolulu, where young Kaulia attended Kawaiahaʻo district school and Kehehuna school. He married Maraea Malaihi in 1879. In the same year, his mother, Mikala Ahia, married Asa Kaulia. James became his adopt- ed son and took his name. James studied law while working in the sheriff's office in Hilo under J. L. Kaulukou and S. K. Kāne. When Joseph Nāwahī founded Hui Hawaiʻi Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League) after the overthrow in 1893, Kaulia served as secretary. After the death of Nāwahī in 1896, Kaulia was elected president of the Hui. He led the Hui in the massive anti- annexation petition drive in 1897. He was one of four delegates selected to take the petitions to Washington, D.C.; the others were David Kalauokalani, William Auld, and John Richardson. Their efforts succeeded in defeating the 1897 Treaty of Annexation. In 1900, Hui Aloha ʻĀina (under Kaulia) and Hui Kālaiʻāina (under Kalauokalani) merged, becoming the Independent Home Rule Party, and Kauila became its vice-president. He died in 1902 at the young age of 42 at his home at Kaumakapili Church, after spending the morning helping prisoners at the jail- house in Honolulu assert their civil rights. [2]
Personal life
In 1879, he married Maria Kaukai or Kaaukai (born 1865). They had seven children, but only one survived: their son James K. Kaulia, Jr. (1885–?) worked for Davies & Company in Honolulu and married Mabel A. K. Kaulia with whom he had descendants. [4] [3] [5]
References
- ^ Silva 2004, pp. 123–163; Silva, Noenoe K. (1998). "The 1897 Petitions Protesting Annexation". The Annexation Of Hawaii: A Collection Of Document. University of Hawaii at Manoa. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
- ^ Dudoit 2002, pp. 242–243.
- ^ a b "James Keauiluna Kaulia – He Departed Suddenly to the Great Beyond Without a Word or a Struggle". The Independent. Honolulu. April 21, 1902. p. 2.; "James K. Kaulia Dies Suddenly And Alone". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Honolulu. April 22, 1902. p. 1.; "James K. Kaulia Dies Suddenly And Alone". The Hawaiian Gazette. Honolulu. April 22, 1902. p. 1.; "J. K. Kaulia Is Dead". The Hawaiian Star. Honolulu. April 21, 1902. p. 6.; "Died". The Hawaiian Star. Honolulu. April 21, 1902. p. 7.; "Death of J. K. Kaulia". Evening Bulletin. Honolulu. April 21, 1902. pp. 1, 8.; "Respect Paid To Dead Attorney". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Honolulu. April 22, 1902. p. 6.; "Local And General News: The Coroner's jury..." The Independent. Honolulu. April 23, 1902. p. 3.; "Death Apprehended". The Hawaiian Star. Honolulu. April 25, 1902. p. 5.
- ^ 1900 United States Census; 1910 United States Census
- ^ "High Sheriif's Sale Notice". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Honolulu. August 11, 1917. p. 3.
Bibliography
- Blount, James Henderson (1895). The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Third Session of the Fifty-Third Congress, 1893–'94 in Thirty-Five Volumes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 191710879.
- Day, Arthur Grove (1984). History Makers of Hawaii: a Biographical Dictionary. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing of Honolulu. ISBN 978-0-935180-09-1. OCLC 11087565.
- Dudoit, D. Mähealani, ed. (2002). ʻÖiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal. Vol. 2. Honolulu: Kuleana ʻÖiwi Press. ISBN 0-9668220-2-1. OCLC 402770968.
- Hawaii (1918). Lydecker, Robert Colfax (ed.). Roster Legislatures of Hawaii, 1841–1918. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Company. OCLC 60737418.
- Silva, Noenoe K. (2004). Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-8622-4. OCLC 191222123.
- Van Dyke, Jon M. (2008).
Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaiʻi?. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
ISBN
978-0-8248-6560-3.
OCLC
257449971 – via
Project MUSE.
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"Race, Power, and the Dilemma of Democracy: Hawaiʻi's First Territorial Legislature, 1901". The Hawaiian Journal of History. 49. Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society: 1–45.
doi:
10.1353/hjh.2015.0017.
hdl:
10524/56604.
OCLC
60626541 – via Project MUSE.
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