Emma Taylor
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Emma Ahuena Taylor, c. 1916
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Emma Ahuena Davison November 13, 1867 Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii |
| Died | November 8, 1937 (aged 69) Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii |
| Resting place | Oahu Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Albert Pierce Taylor |
| Parent(s) | Benomi R. Davison Mary Jane Kekulani Fayerweather |
| Relatives | Rose C. Davison (sister) |
Emma Ahuena Davison Taylor (November 13, 1867 – November 8, 1937) was a part Native Hawaiian high chiefess during the 20th-century. A cultural historian, genealogist, and repository of Hawaiian culture and history, she wrote many articles and recollections of the past and influenced her husband Albert Pierce Taylor, the author of the historical book Under Hawaiian Skies. She was involved in local philanthropic, historic and civic groups and participated in the women's suffrage movement in the Territory of Hawaii, campaigning for the rights of local women to vote prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
She was born on November 13, 1867 (although her gravestone indicate she was born in 1866), as the eldest daughter and second child of American pharmacist Benoni Richmond Davison, who became the superintendent of the United States Marine Hospital in Honolulu, and British-Hawaiian chiefess Mary Jane Kekulani Fayerweather. On her mother's side, she was a great-granddaughter of the British Captain George Charles Beckley and Ahia, a distant relation of the reigning House of Kamehameha. Her siblings included William Compton Malulani, Rose Compton, Henry Fayerweather, and Marie Hope Kekulani. Her father died in 1875 and her mother later remarried to photographer A. A. Montano in 1877.
She attended St. Andrew's Priory School in Honolulu under the tutelage of the sisterhoods of the Anglican Church of Hawaii established by King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma. She later transferred to the Fort Street School and became a playmate of the Princess Kaʻiulani, the niece of King Kalākaua. Beginning in 1890, after finishing her education, she worked as a schoolteacher with her sister Rose at the government school in the Mānoa Valley.
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