Joshua_Kaeo

Joshua Kaeo

Joshua Kaeo

American judge


Joshua Kaʻeo (c. 1808 – June 27, 1858), was a Hawaiian high chief or nobleman of Hawaii Island descent, the uncle of Queen Emma of Hawaii, and an early Hawaiian politician and advisor of Kamehameha III.

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His father was Asa Kaʻeo, a grandson[2][3] or son of Manoua, the daughter of King Kalaniʻōpuʻu and one of his wives, Mulehu, from a noble family of the Kaʻū district; Mulehu was also the grandmother of Abner Pākī (one of Kaʻeo's own contemporaries) through a second marriage and great-grandmother of Bernice Pauahi Bishop.[3] His mother is named Paaluanui.[4][5] He was distant cousin to Kamehameha I since his great (great) grandfather Kalaniʻōpuʻu was Kamehameha I's half-uncle.

He was member of the King's Privy Council from 1845 to 1850 and a member of House of Nobles from 1845 to 1856.[6] At one time, he was the Judge of the Supreme Court of Hawaii from 1844 to 1848, succeeding Zorobabela Kaʻauwai who resigned in November, 1846.[7][8][9]

He married Jane Lahilahi Young, the hapa-haole (part-Hawaiian) daughter of John Young and his wife Kaʻōanaʻeha, the niece of Kamehameha I. Kaʻeo and Lahilahi had two sons:[5]


References

  1. "Royal Mausoleum". The Hawaiian Gazette. March 10, 1899. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
  2. Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Ishmael W. Stagner (1986). Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers. Vol. 2. University of Hawaii Press. p. 78. ISBN 0-939154-37-4.
  3. Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Ishmael W. Stagner (1983). Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers. Vol. 1. University of Hawaii Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-939154-28-5.
  4. "Joshua Kaeo". Our Family History and Ancestry. Families of Old Hawaii. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  5. "Kaeo, Josua office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  6. "By Authority". The Polynesian. November 14, 1846. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  7. Frear, Walter F. (1894). "Evolution of the Hawaiian Judiciary". Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society (7). Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society. hdl:10524/966.
  8. "KANEHOA, JAMES YOUNG Alii A ward LCA 8518- B, M.A.43" (PDF). Kanaka Genealogy web site. Retrieved 2012-03-25.

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