Jonah Piʻikoi

According to Piʻikoi himself, he was born in the month of Ikuwā, around January 1804, at Waimea on the island of Kauaʻi. Piʻikoi's parents were Kawahinemakua and Kiko. He was a kaukau aliʻi, of lower-ranking chiefly descent, but a relative of the Kings of Kauaʻi. His great-grandmother Kahalemanuolono was the sister of Kamakahelei, making Piʻikoi a distant cousin of King Kaumualiʻi of Kauaʻi.{{sfn|Kameʻeleihiwa|1992|page=269}} His Hawaiian name Piʻikoi translate as "lofty aspirations."{{sfn|Pukui|Elbert|Mookini|1974|page=184}}

Piʻikoi began public service as a tobacco lighter of King Kaumualiʻi and later King Kamehameha II. He accompanied Kamehameha II to Oʻahu in 1822, serving as his personal attendant. Returning to Kauaʻi after Kamehameha II's departure to Great Britain, Piʻikoi assisted the newly appointed Governor Kahalaiʻa Luanuʻu in suppressing Humehume's rebellion in 1824.{{sfn|Forbes|2001|page=249}}

Returning to Oʻahu, he served Kahalaiʻa until his death in 1826 and afterward became a servant of Kamehameha III.

Piʻikoi became a konohiki or land agent for Kamehameha III's lands on Oʻahu and gain much profit from managing the land. During the Great Māhele, he was given the duty of separating the King's land from that of the chiefs'{{sfn|Forbes|2001|page=249}}{{sfn|Kameʻeleihiwa|1992|page=269}}

He would later serve in the House of Nobles 1845–1859 and on the Privy Council 1852–1855.{{cite web|url=http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASHb2f2/d8883ea4.dir/Piikoi,%20Jonah.jpg|title=Piikoi, Jonah office record|work=state archives digital collections|publisher=state of Hawaii|access-date=November 24, 2009}}

Piʻikoi died at his Fort street residence in Honolulu, on April 26, 1859. He was in his fifties and his cause of death was described as aneurysm of the aorta.{{cite news|title=Died of aneurism...|newspaper=The Polynesian|location=Honolulu|date=April 30, 1859|volume=XV|issue=52|page=2|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015408/1859-04-30/ed-1/seq-2/}}{{cite news|title=Died|newspaper=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|location=Honolulu|date=April 28, 1859|volume=III|issue=44|page=2|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015418/1859-04-28/ed-1/seq-2/}} Before his death, he wrote an autobiography Sketch of J. Piikoi's Life which was published by the Pacific Commercial Advertiser on May 12, 1859.{{sfn|Forbes|2001|page=249}}{{cite news|last=Piikoi|first=Jonah|title=Sketch of J. Piikoi's Life|newspaper=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|location=Honolulu|date=May 12, 1859|volume=III|issue=46|page=2|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015418/1859-05-12/ed-1/seq-2/}}

His funeral was dated to May 16 and buried in a family tomb near his country residence on the plains of Kewalo.{{cite news|title=Funeral|newspaper=The Polynesian|location=Honolulu|date=May 14, 1859|volume=XVI|issue=2|page=2|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015408/1859-05-14/ed-1/seq-2/}}{{cite news|title=Funeral|newspaper=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|location=Honolulu|date=May 19, 1859|volume=III|issue=47|page=2|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015418/1859-05-19/ed-1/seq-2/}}

Piʻikoi Street in Honolulu is named after either him or his son. He once owned a large section of around the area where, the land between Waikiki and Honolulu, called the Kewalo area. Piʻikoi built the first two-story wooden house in Kewalo, which is now near the President William McKinley High School.{{sfn|Pukui|Elbert|Mookini|1974|page=184}}

Piʻikoi's first wife was Kekahili, daughter of Kamokuiki, and half-sister of High Chief Kapaʻakea. With Kekahili, he had High Chief David Kahalepouli Piʻikoi, the father of David Kawānanakoa, Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui, and Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, who shared his grandfather's Christian name.{{sfn|McKinzie|1983|page=33}}

His second wife Kamakeʻe (died 1871) was the daughter of Ihu and Keʻekapu.{{cite web|title=KAMAKEE (w) LCA 10605|work=Kanaka Genealogy web slyite|url=https://kanakagenealogy.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/kamakee-w-lca-10605.pdf|access-date=June 5, 2014}}

They had two daughters: Lydia (Lilia) Piʻikoi (died 1900) and Maria (Maraea) Piʻikoi (1848–1874).{{sfn|McKinzie|1983|pages=33–34}}

Lydia married three times, to William S. Wond, John Ena and Samuel K. Kamakaia, and her only son was William Piʻikoi Wond (1864–1887), a member of the Royal Hawaiian Band.{{sfn|McKinzie|1983|pages=33–34}}{{cite news|title=Death of a Band Boy|newspaper=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|location=Honolulu|date=January 13, 1887|volume=VI|issue=11|page=2|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1887-01-13/ed-1/seq-2/}}

Lydia's obituary in 1900 called her a daughter of Kekahili instead.{{cite news|title=The Passing of An Old Chiefess – Lydia Piikoi Kamakaia, Aunt of Prince David Dies in This City|newspaper=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|location=Honolulu|date=October 4, 1900|volume=XXXII|issue=5867|page=9|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1900-10-04/ed-1/seq-9/}}{{cite news|title=Great Native Chiefess Laid to Final Rest – Mrs. Lydia Piikoi Kamakaia Buried From the Roman Catholic Church|newspaper=The Honolulu Republican|location=Honolulu|date=October 5, 1900|volume=I|issue=101|page=1|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047165/1900-10-05/ed-1/seq-1/}}

Maria was married to Thomas Jefferson Cummins, half-brother of John Adams Cummins, and had three daughters: Lydia Kekaulike Cummins, Elizabeth Kamakeʻe Cummins, and Maria Maiopili Cummins.{{sfn|McKinzie|1983|pages=33–34}}

After Piʻikoi's death, his widow Kamakeʻe remarried to W. P. Kamakau.{{cite news|title=Died|newspaper=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|location=Honolulu|date=September 30, 1871|volume=XVI|issue=14|page=2|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015418/1871-09-30/ed-1/seq-2/}}

An unnamed daughter died in the 1848 measles epidemic.{{sfn|Cooke|Cooke|1937|page=316}}

File:Three Princes of Hawaii at San Mateo without caps (restored).jpg. Left to right: Kalanianaʻole, Kawānanakoa and Keliʻiahonui]]

{{Tree chart/start |summary= Piʻikoi family}}

{{Tree chart | Kam |~|~|y|~|~| Jon |~|~|y|~|~| Kek |Kam=Kamakeʻe
(d. 1871)|Jon=Jonah Piʻikoi
(1804–59)|Kek=Kekahili}}

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{{Tree chart | Lyd |y| Won | | Mar |y| Tom | | Dav |~|y|~| Vic |Lyd=Lydia Piʻikoi
(d. 1901)|Won=William S. Wond
(1841–1932)|Mar=Maria Piʻikoi
(1848–74)|Tom=Thomas Jefferson
Cummins
(1826–1903)|Dav= David Kahalepouli
Piʻikoi
(1845–80) |Vic= Victoria
Kinoiki Kekaulike
(1843–84) }}

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{{Tree chart | Won | | Da1 | | Da2 | | Da3 | | Dav | | Edw | | Kuh |Won=William Piʻikoi
Wond
(1864–87)|Da1=Lydia Kekaulike
Cummins|Da2=Elizabeth Kamakeʻe
Cummins|Da3=Maria Maiopili
Cummins|Dav=David Kawānanakoa
(1868–1908) |Edw= Edward Abnel
Keliʻiahonui
(1869–87) |Kuh= Jonah Kūhiō
Kalanianaʻole
(1871–1922)}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kaw |Kaw=House of
Kawānanakoa}}

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{{reflist}}

{{Wikisource|Sketch of J. Piikoi's Life, written by himself}}

• {{cite book|last1=Cooke|first1=Amos Starr|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001873424|title=The Chiefs' Children School: A Record Compiled from the Diary and Letters of Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke, by Their Granddaughter Mary Atherton Richards|last2=Cooke|first2=Juliette Montague|publisher=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|year=1937|editor-last=Richards|editor-first=Mary Atherton|location=Honolulu|oclc=1972890|author-link1=Amos Starr Cooke}}
• {{cite book|editor-last=Forbes|editor-first=David W.|title=Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900|volume=3|location=Honolulu|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2001|isbn=0-8248-2503-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lB_F9CffeN8C}}
• {{cite book|last=Kameʻeleihiwa|first=Lilikalā|authorlink=Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa|title=Native Land and Foreign Desires|publisher=Bishop Museum Press|location=Honolulu|year=1992|isbn=0-930897-59-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T9W5AAAAIAAJ}}
• {{cite book|last1=McKinzie|first1=Edith Kawelohea|editor-last=Stagner|editor-first=Ishmael W.|title=Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers|volume=1|year=1983|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=0-939154-28-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-YPNBdfvmDUC}}
• {{cite book|last1=Pukui|first1=Mary Kawena|authorlink1=Mary Kawena Pukui|last2=Elbert|first2=Samuel H.|authorlink2=Samuel Hoyt Elbert|last3=Mookini|first3=Esther T.|title=Place Names of Hawaii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fkw4JooFxZAC|date=1974|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=978-0-8248-0524-1}}

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