User:KAVEBEAR/Mary Jane Fayerweather Montano

Mary Jane Ahia Ahuena Kekulani Fayerweather (May 14, 1842 – November 8, 1930) was a Hawaiian high chiefess who became a composer, musician and cultural historian.

Life and career
She was born on May 14, 1842, in Honolulu, as the third-born child and second daughter of Abram Henry Fayerweather (1812–1850) and Mary Kekahimoku Kolimoalani Beckley (1820–1850). Her father was an American whaler from New Canaan, Connecticut who settled in Hawaii and became a sugar planter and chief accountant of C. Brewer & Co. Her maternal family was considered to be of the aliʻi (noble) class. She was the maternal granddaughter of British Captain George Charles Beckley and Ahia, a distant relation of the reigning House of Kamehameha and descendant of the 15th-century King Līloa. Her two sisters were Julia Fayerweather Afong (1840–1918), who married the Chinese millionaire merchant Chun Afong, and Hannah Fayerweather Bell (1843–1870), who married Thomas Kamukamu Bell. A brother named William Malulani Fayerweather (1841–1843) died young.

On July 4, 1864, she married American pharmacist Benoni Richmond Davison who was originally from Wilmington, Delaware. Davison became the superintendent of the United States Marine Hospital in Honolulu. She and her first husband had five children including William Compton Malulani Davison, Emma Ahuena Davison Taylor, Rose Compton Davison, Henry Fayerweather Davison, and Marie Hope Kekulani Davison Brown. Davison died on July 3, 1875. She later married Colombian Andreas Avelino Montano (1845–1913) on June 16, 1877. Montano was a noted photographer and many of his subjects included members of the royal family including King Kalākaua and Queen Dowager Emma.

Death and burial
Mary died on November 8, 1930. She was buried at the Oahu Cemetery where she shares a marker with her son Henry Davison. The private notes, diaries, letters and manuscript drafts of Mary and her daughter Ahuena Taylor are now in the Hawaii State Archives.