User:KAVEBEAR/Simon Peter Kalama

Simon Peter Kalama (died 1875), was a engraver, cartographer, surveyor and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii. His name means the torch in Hawaiian. His full name is often Hawaiianized as Simona Petero Kalama.

Biography
Kalama, who generally signed his surveys as S. P. Kalama or merely S.P.K., appears to have been a remarkable individual. It is not known when Kalama was born, which leads to some speculation about his attendance at Seminary. In the obituaries published in The Friend and The Advertiser after his death on December 2, 1875, it was remarked that he was about 60 years old.

On January 27, 1848, the Governor of Oʻahu Mataio Kekūanaōʻa appointed Kalama and John Kalili as the two circuit judges of the island of Oʻahu. Kalama was charged with the district of Honolulu.

Andrews was fortunate to have real talent in his artisans. Simon Peter Kalama was one of the best. Nineteen when he became a scholar, Kalama arrived at Lahainaluna with a recognized skill in drafting. He executed most of the “views,” which are the only record we have of the true island landscape at a time when two-story buildings were still freakish. (Kalama also created the map of Hawai‘i that’s reproduced in the book’s back pocket.) Around this time he’s also known to have saved the life of Dr. Gerrit Judd by pulling the doctor back from an attempt to scoop molten lava with a frying pan. Later, as the Western concept of landownership began to alter the Hawaiian landscape, Kalama enjoyed a lucrative career as a surveyor. He served as konohiki (overseer) of the Kalihi Kai district on O‘ahu, as a member of the House of Representatives and eventually as privy councilor to two kings.

Kalama served as a legislator from 1851 to 1860 and in 1870 as a member of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Hawaiian legislature.

Brief biography from the The Pacific Commercial Advertiser for legislative election of 1868. "Simon P. Kalama, Esq., is a Hawaiian, a land surveyor by profession, and one of the ablest and most energetic of the natives. He has been elected several times before to the same position, and has always performed his duties with credit. There is no native Hawaiian better versed in law-making."

In the Hawaiian tradition of hānai, he adopted Luluhipolani as his daughter. Luluhipolani married Thomas Manchester in November 17, 1875.
 * Ma ke ahiahi Poaono, Nov. 13, ma ka hale noho o S. P. Kalama, ua hoohui ia ma ka berita o ka mare o William Manchester (k.) me Lulu (w.) kaikamahine a S. P. Kalama; mahope iho o ka mare ana, ua nauwe aku na mea mare me ke anaina ma kahi o Ailuene Bush, no ka hoolawa ana iho i na kohi kelekele a ka puukolu.

Death
Kalama died on December 2, 1875 in Honolulu at the age of sixty.



Hon. S. P. Kalama

Ma ka po o ka Poaha, o ka pule i hala iho nei, ua haalele mai la keia makamaka i na inea o keia ola ana iloko o ke 65 o kona mau makahiki. He kanaka oia i kamaaina i na mea a pau; noloko ia o ka huina wae o keia lahui; he hoa haihai olelo me na ninau nui pili aupuni no na Kamehameha i ko lakou mau la; he lala no ka Ahakukamalu; a no kekahi mau makahiki he hoa no ka Ahaolelo Kau Kanawai o ke Aupuni. Oia kekahi o na Komite i kohoia ma ka Aie Dala. ua ikeia kona ano e ka lehulehu; he kanaka i nohoia e ka naau akahai; he molale a maikai kona mau hoakaka ana, a he hohonu kona noonoo. Ua hooikaika oia no kona aupuni a me ka lahui e like me ka mea hiki iaia; ua ake nui no ka holomua a me ka pomaikai o na hana i waiho ia 'ku ma kona lima, a ua mahalo mau ia oia no kona malama pono i na rula o kana mau oihana i koho ia 'i. Ua liuliu wale ae nei kona waiho ana, a i ka wa i olelo ia maluna, ua kaumaha iho la makou i ka lohe ana mai ua hala aku la ka ia. Ma ka Poaono o ia pule hookahi ka manele hope loa ia ana 'ku o kona kino lepo a waiho i kona wahi. Me ka ohana ko makou walohia; a me ka lahui me ke aupuni ko makou minamina.



He Moolelo no S P Kalama.

Ua hanauia o Kalama ma Kalamawaiawaawa no Napoopoo i Hawaii, i ka A. D. 1822. O Ailaau ka makuahine, a o Petero Kaaia ka makuakane. I ka wa i noho paa ai o Peleuli o Kawelookalani me ka laua moopuna o Kekauonohi ma Lahaina; oia na haku alii o na makua o Kalama, ua noho oia ma Lahaina i ka wa kamalii. I ka wa i nui ai, ua komo oia i ke kula a Miss Ogden, a i ke kula a E. Spaulding a me ke kula a A. Chapin, ua kaulana ia mamua o na kamalii a pau i ka naauao a me ke akamai ma na mea helu, a me ke kakaulima, a ua akamai loa i ke kakau palapala aina ma ka Poepoe a me na apana.

Ua komo oia ma ke Kulanui o Lahainaluna i ka M. H. 1835, a ua puka i ka 1839. O ke kaha keleawe kana oihana akamai i ao ia'i ma na mea naauao ma ke Kulanui. O ke ano nae ma ke kino he kolohe, a no kona mihi ana, ua hookomo na kumu o ke Kulanui iaia ma ka Ekalesia i ka M. H. 1838.

I kona puka ana mai, mai ke kulanui mai, ua noho oia malalo o kona haku alii e hooponopono i kana mau oihana, a i ka wa i lilo ai o Kekauonohi i alii aimoku no Kauai i ka 1842. Ua lilo o S. P. Kalama i kakauolelo no na waiwai loaa o na mokupuni o Kauai a me kona mau waiwai pili kino. I ka wa i lilo ai o Kekauonohi me Keliiahonui i mau Puuku alii no ka Moi, 1846. O S. P. Kalama no ke kakauolelo o ia hana. Ia wa no i hoonohoia ai na Lunahoona; a ua lilo oia i Kakauolelo a i Anaaina na na Lunahoona.

I ka wa i paa ai ke Kanawai Hoonohonoho Oihana Kuhina Alii o ko Hawaii Pae Aina. Ua koho ka Moi ia S. P. Kalama i Lunakanawai Kaapuni no Honolulu. Ua noho oia ma ka Ahaolelo Kau Kanawai, ma ka Hale Ahaolelo no ka pono o kona lahui, he elua kau no Hanalei, ekolu a eha paha no ka apana o Honolulu.

I ke au o ka Moi Kamehameha IV. Ua kohoia i hoa no ka Ahakukamalu; a ua lilo i hoa puali kinai ahi, no ka Puali o ka Haku Hawaii Helu 4. Ua aneane he makahiki a keu kona waiho ana i ka mailolo, ua lolo mai ke poo a ka wawae ma ka aoao akau. I kona waiho loihi ana iloko o ka mai, ua hoopuiwaia oia no kona uhane iho, no kona hookaua eneni kue i kona Haku hoola. A puiwa mai oia i ka leo o kana kumu aloha Rev. Dibble me he mea la e kahea mai ana. Ua make oia ma Kunawai Honolulu i ka la 2 o Dekemaba ma ka hora 9 P. M. MAKAMAKA.

Engraving
Samuel P. Kalama Maps (1837, 1838) of moku and ahupuaa were used as a foundation for these map boundaries. All moku and ahupuaa shown on Kalama maps are included in this project. The source for the 1837 Kalama map was the U.S. Librabry of Congress. The 1838 Kalama map was made available from the British Royal Geographic Society. Note, area names are written without traditional Hawaiian diacritical marks, as was the practice of Kalama. The divisions are based also on traditional descriptions of location, with boundaries modified to follow watershed ridges and streams/rivers from available topography.


 * http://www2.hawaii.edu/~hslp/journal/vol2/Beamer_Duarte(HJLP).pdf