John Adams Cummins
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The Honourable John Adams Kuakini Cummins |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office June 17, 1890 – February 25, 1891 |
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| Monarch | Kalākaua |
| Preceded by | Jonathan Austin |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Parker |
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| Born |
March 17, 1835 Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii |
| Died | March 21, 1913 (aged 78) |
| Resting place | Oahu Cemetery |
| Nationality | Kingdom of Hawaii |
| Political party | National Reform |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca Kahalewai Elizabeth Kapeka Merseberg others? |
| Children | 5 |
| Residence | Mauna Loke, Waimānalo estates |
| Occupation | Planter, Politician |
John Adams Kuakini Cummins (1835–1913) was a member of the nobility of the Kingdom of Hawaii who became a wealthy businessman, and was involved in politics as the kingdom was overthrown.
John Adams Kuakini Cummins was born March 17, 1835 in Honolulu. He was a namesake of island governor John Adams Kuakini (1789–1844), who in turn took the name of John Quincy Adams when Americans first settled on the islands in the 1820s. His father was Thomas Jefferson Cummins (1802–1885) who was born in Lincoln, England, raised in Massachusetts, and came to the Hawaiian Islands in 1828. His mother was High Chiefess Kaumakaokane Papaliʻaiʻaina (1810–1849) who was a distant relative of the royal family of Hawaii. As the custom of native Hawaiians, he was raised as an aliʻi nui because of his mother's family background. His father owned much of land in Waimānalo on the east coast of the island of Oʻahu, starting a horse and cattle ranch in the 1840s. He managed the ranch and converted it to a sugarcane plantation starting in 1877, and built a mill in 1881.
He married Rebecca Kahalewai (1830–1902) in 1861, also considered a high chiefess, and had five children with her, four daughters and one son. Their son Thomas Pualiʻi Cummins (1869–1928) was sent to Saint Matthews School in California in 1885 along with three Hawaiian princes. Daughters were Matilda Kaumakaokane Cummins Walker (1862–1937), Jane Piʻikea Cummins Merseberg (1864–1918), May Kaaolani Cummins Clark (1874–1935) and one who died young. He might have had another child with one or two "secondary wives". After his first wife's death, in 1903 he married Elizabeth Kapeka Merseberg (1877–1925), who was a sister of a son-in-law, and adopted a son.
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