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residents. He demonstrated religious discrimination, harshly treating a
Hawaiian Protestant minister J. K. Kahuila, whom he judged as too independent. The native population petitioned for Damien's removal, and for Sumner, who was much more well-liked and amicable, to take over. Father Damien resigned
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in 1856. This land passed to his brother after
William's death, and then to their sister Maria and her children from her second marriage with Robert Grimes Davis. The former Sumner landholdings in Mōkapu, along with other parcels held by other Hawaiian landholders in the region, were later acquired
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on March 24, 1877. The legislature of the kingdom in 1865 had enacted a law for the prevention of leprosy, which required those with severe cases to be quarantined at the colony on Molokaʻi. Later that same year, the first
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William
Keolaloa Kahānui Sumner, Jr. was born circa 1816, the eldest son of Captain
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Defamation by
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Taylor, A. P. (1929). Ford, Alexander Hume (ed.). "Niniko, 'Garden of Rest'".
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The Diaries of David Lawrence Gregg: An American Diplomat in Hawaii, 1853–1858
66:(1786–1847) and High Chiefess Keakua'aihue Kanealai Hua. Captain Sumner, from
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Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawaiʻi
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Topolinski, John Renken Kahaʻi (1981). "Nancy Sumner, Hawaiian Courtlady".
835:"Musical Diggings – The Sumner Family, A Legacy of Family Mele and Chants"
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News from Molokai, Letters Between Peter Kaeo & Queen Emma, 1873–1876
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to avoid opposition from a majority of the residents if he was removed.
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Mōkapu: A Paradise on the Peninsula : Stories from Not So Long Ago
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In 1884, Sumner was sent for treatment to Kakaʻako Branch Hospital in
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Ethnic Intercession: Leadership at the Kalaupapa Leprosy Colony
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
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by the United States government and developed as the
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Grave Marker of William Keolaloa Kahānui Sumner, Jr
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