NameJohn Owen DOMINIS
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Birth10 Mar 1832, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York
Death27 Aug 1891, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii Age: 59
BurialHonolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii
CemeteryRoyal Mausoleum
Spouses
Birth2 Sep 1838, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii
Death11 Nov 1917, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii Age: 79
BurialHonolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii
CemeteryRoyal Mausoleum
Marriage16 Sep 1862, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii1365
Birth12 Jun 1831, Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii
Death5 Dec 1923, Kapahulu, Honolulu County Age: 92
BurialHonolulu, Honolulu County
CemeteryKawaiahao Church
Notes for John Owen DOMINIS
-Husband of the Queen.
Governor of Oahu - (first time)
Governor of Oahu - (second time)
Governor of Oahu - (third time)
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Prince Consort of Hawaii. Royal Governor of Oahu and Maui, general and commander of the Hawaiian Army. Born in Schenectady, New York, he moved with his parents to Honolulu in 1836, was educated in Hawaiian schools, and resided in Washington Place, a mansion commissioned by King Kamehameha III. During the California gold rush, he spent a year working as a clerk in San Francisco, then returned to Honolulu. On September 16, 1862, he married Lydia Kamaka'eha (Paki). He served as secretary to Kings Kamehameha IV and V, and was appointed royal governor of Oahu and Maui by King Kamehameha V. His wife's ascension to the throne as Queen Lili'uokalani in January 1891 gave him the designation of Prince Consort of Hawaii until his untimely death in Honolulu.1365
Notes for Lydia Lili‘u Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamaka‘eha (Spouse 1)
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Last Hawaiian Monarch. Born Lydia Lili‘u Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamaka‘eha on the island of Oahu, the third of ten children of chiefs Caesar Kapa'akea and Anale'a Keohokahole. During school she discovered a talent for composition, and would in her lifetime, write over 150 songs, the most famous of which is 'Aloha Oe,' which was originally penned as a love song. When Kamehameha V died, his heir refused thethrone, and the kingdom's legislature elected David Kameka'eha, Lydia's brother, king in February 1874 . He served as King Kalakuaua. He named his brother William Leleiôhoku as his heir, but in April 1877, William's death left their sister heir apparent, at which time she took the name Lili‘uokalani. I n 1887 a consortium of non-native planters and businessmen, seeking to control the kingdom politically as well as economically, formed a secret organization known as the Hawaiian League. Kalakaua was compelled to accept a new Cabinet composed of league members, who forced the reluctant king to sign a new constitution, later known as the Bayonet Constitution which greatly curtailed the monarch's power, and placed the executive power in the hands of the Cabinet. When King Kalakaua died in January 1891, Lili'uokalani ascended the throne. In January 1892 the queen proclaimed a new constitution which would restore power to the throne and rights to the Native Hawaiians, at the same time a group of non-native businessmen formed an Annexation Club, the goal of which was the overthrow of the queen and annex the kingdom to the United States. The Club's so called Committee of Safety claimed that the queen, by proposing to alter the constitution, had committed a revolutionary act. The American minister in Hawaii, sided with the Club assuring them he would not protect the queen, and that he would land troops from the USS Boston if necessary to further their ends. On January 15, the queen's Cabinet was informed that the Committee of Safety would challenge her. In an effort to quell the mounting crisis, the queen, who wished to avoid bloodshed, issued a proclamation declaring that she would not seek to alter the constitution except by constitutional means. The Committee of Safety, however, denounced the queen and requested troops, that afternoon, 162 armed troops from the USS Boston came ashore. Lili'uokalani was deposed on January 17, 1893, signing a document which read in part: "Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority...as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands." An appeal sent to President Grover Cleveland stalled in congress and led to ten days of fighting between Hawaiian royalists and the revolutionary government. The Queen was arrested January 16, 1895, and imprisoned in the Iolani Palace, where she was presented with a document of abdication, which she was compelled to sign in order to save her loyalists from execution. After eight months of imprisonment in the palace, she was allowed to return to her home, under house arrest, it was not until 1896 was her freedom restored. She continued diplomatic efforts on the monarchy's behalf until her death at the age of 79.1365