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Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Akana, Akaiko December 24, 1884 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

AKAIKO AKANA, Minister. The Rev. Akaiko Akana, pastor of the historic 
Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu since Sept. 1, 1918, a member of the Hawaiian 
Homes Commission, in charge of the movement for the rehabilitation of the 
Hawaiian race, and a former member of the Child Welfare Commission and other 
civic and church associations, has long been identified with religious and 
social welfare work in his native Hawaii.
  Inspired by a teacher whom he met at Waialua when a boy of 14, Mr. Akana set 
out to accumulate a fund for his education. He worked his way through the 
Kamehameha School for Boys, from which he was graduated in 1903. He attended 
the Normal School in Honolulu in 1903 and 1904, and began his educational 
career as a teacher in the Kaneohe school in the latter year. Feeling a call 
to the ministry, he took a course from 1906 to 1911 at the Hartford School for 
Religious Pedagogy and the Hartford Theological Seminary, in Hartford, Conn.
  During the summers of 1910 and 1911 Mr. Akana served under the Home Mission 
Board of Massachusetts, and in November, 1911, he became an official of the 
Hawaiian Evangelical Association of Hawaii. During 1912 he organized and was 
general superintendent of the Young People’s League of Honolulu, and on May 
28, 1912, was ordained into the Christian ministry. Shortly thereafter Mr. 
Akana was elected president of the Christian Endeavor Association of Hawaii 
and took entire charge of the young people’s work by the Hawaiian Board in the 
Territory. He was one of the organizers and secretary of the Hawaiian 
Protective Association from 1913 to 1916, and in 1913 was elected trustee of 
the United Society of Christian Endeavor of the World in Boston, Mass. He also 
organized the Hawaiian Savings & Loan Association and became its president in 
1917.
  More recently Mr. Akana has been a member of the Hawaiian Homes Commission 
and is also a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii and a 
member of the Anti-Narcotic Commission. He did much research work while a 
student, and completed “An Inductive Study of the Effects of Tobacco on Human 
Life” while in Hartford. He is a member of the Hartford Theological Seminary 
and Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy Alumni Associations, Hartford 
Ministerial Association, Kamehameha Alumni Association, Chinese Students’ 
Alliance of Hawaii, Honolulu Ad and Hawaiian Civic clubs. Born at Kaihuwai, 
Waialua, Oahu, Dec. 24, 1884. Mr. Akana is the son of Chun and Harriet Kahema 
Akana.


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