Individual Details

LINEAGE
Conflict: Ellis, A Narrative Tour of Hawaii, p 105 lists mother as Kamauokalani.

LIFE
A. Conflict: Born around 1769 (Del Piano, Kalanimoku: Iron Cable of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1769–1827, p 2).
B. He was raised together with Kaahumanu on Maui in the household of Chief Kapo'o (Del Piano, Kalanimoku: Iron Cable of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1769–1827, p 3).
C. He was "famous in the latter part of the wars of Kamehameha I, and as prime minister of the kingdom after Kamehameha's death ... "during the regency of Kaahumanu" (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 212,222). Kamehameha made him commander-in-chief and chief treasurer, which put him into control over the kingdom's laws and the purse. "Ka-lani-moku was the highest official in the kingdom to the time of his death" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 175-176). He was commander of the army 1819-1824 (Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands, p 80).
D. He was paired with Keopuolani as her second mate to Kamehameha. He was with her while she gave birth to Kamehameha's children. He left Keopuolani and went to Kuwahine (Langas, Davida Malo's Unpublished Account of Keopuolani, p 38).
E. He moved to Oahu as Liholoho was moving to Oahu (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 250).
F. He was baptized a Christian with Kaahumanu on December 4, 1825 (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 323).
Conflict: Kalanimoku was not baptized with Kaahumanu because he had already been baptized, but his 4-year-old son William Pitt Leleiohoku was baptized on December 4, 1825 (Del Piano, Kalanimoku: Iron Cable of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1769–1827, p 26). Kalanimoku was admitted into the church at Honolulu in December 1825 (Kuykendall, The Hawaiian Kingdom, vol 1 p 123).
Kalanimoku was the first Hawaiian chief to be baptized into the Catholic faith in 1819 along with his brother Boki. His 5 mates attended (Del Piano, Kalanimoku: Iron Cable of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1769–1827, p 13). Jarves, History of the Hawaiian and Sandwich Islands, p 216 states he was baptized a Catholic in 1819 along with his brother Boki.
G. He was Prime Councillor of Kaahumanu 1824-1827 (Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands, p 80).
H. He was joined with Akahi on June 28, 1825 (Del Piano, Kalanimoku: Iron Cable of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1769–1827, p 26) after the death of Likelike (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 251).
I. He contracted a disease referred to as "dropsy," which we now call edema, which eventually killed him (Del Piano, Kalanimoku: Iron Cable of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1769–1827, p 26).
J. Conflict: "Jarves' History of the Hawaiian Islands, p. 128 ... gives Mar. 2 as date of death" (Hawaiian Chiefs Biographical Abstract).
Conflict: (Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 96 indicates death date as February 7, 1827.

Birth	Abt 1768	Hana, Maui
Death	8 Feb 1827	Kailua, Hawaii
Alt name		Kalanimoku
Alt name		Kaleimoku
Alt name		Karaimoku
Alt name		Billy Pitt
Alt name		William Pitt
Alt name		Kalaemoku
Alt name		Hueu Kalanimoku

Spouse	Kiliwehi ( - )
Child	Wahinepio ( - )
Child	Boki ( - )
Child	Leleiohoku (1828 - 1848)

Spouse	Likelike ( - 1821)
Child	Lanihau (1821 - 1821)

Spouse

Akahi ( - )

Spouse

Keopuolani (1778 - 1823)

Father	Kekuamanoha ( - )
Mother	Kamakahukilani ( - )
Sibling	Kahakuhaakoi ( - 1826)
Sibling	Kamoonohu ( - )
Sibling	Poki (1787 - 1829)
Sibling	Paalua ( - )