10 Facts About Akaiko Akana

Akaiko Akana served in that capacity from 1918 until his death in 1933.

Akaiko Akana was born December 24,1884, to Chun Akana and Harriet Kahema in the Kaihuwai district of Waialua on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, in the Territory of Hawaii.

Akaiko Akana graduated from Kamehameha School for boys in 1903, and was assigned as a teaching assistant at his alma mater.

At the October 1906 annual meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Akaiko Akana delivered a speech in which he stated that his decision to enter the Christian ministry was a direct result of the groundwork laid by the Christian missionaries who set up churches in Hawaii decades before his birth.

In encouraging the board to continue its work in Hawaii, the twenty-two-year-old Akaiko Akana cited the Sabbath being broken in Hawaii by baseball and golf.

Akaiko Akana earned a bachelor's degree in pedagogy at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where he was president of his graduating class.

Akaiko Akana published a 1911 research report "An Inductive Study on the Effects of Tobacco on Human Life".

In 1920, Akaiko Akana appeared before the United States House of Representatives hearings on "Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy", where he delivered a lengthy report on the subject matter as it related to the Territory of Hawaii.

Akaiko Akana died February 16,1933, and was buried at Liliuokalani Church Cemetery in Haleiwa, Hawaii.

Akaiko Akana never married, and was survived by his brother Rev Francis Akana of Kona, and his father Chun Akana of Honolulu.