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Samuel Apolo Kapiikauinamokuonalani Crowningburg Amalu, commonly known as Sammy Amalu (1917–February 23, 1986) was a self-proclaim royal and longtime columnist at The Honolulu Advertiser.
He was born in the Koolau District of Kauai. He was the son of Charles and Ethel P. Amalu, and the grandson of Kilauea Lighthouse keeper Samuel Apolo Amalu and his wife Miriam Peleuli Crowningsburg.[1] [1]
A self-proclaimed royal, who titled himself High Chief Kapiikauinamoku, Prince of Keawe and Duke of Konigsberg, he attempted to buy up several Waikiki hotels with phony checks in the 1940s and ended up in jail.[2][3][4]
Under the alias Kapiikauinamoku, he wrote "The Story of Hawaiian Royalty" and "The Story of Maui Royalty," in a series of columns written for the The Honolulu Advertiser, which accounts much of the genealogy of Hawaii's aliʻi families including his ancestress Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg, who was a cousin of King Lunalilo who reigned from 1873 to 1874. As descendants of Kalaimamahu, the Crowningburg family were the closest relatives of the childless Lunalilo and his mother Kekāuluohi.
References
- ^ "KAIHEEKAI,JOHN HOOLULU LCA 7711" (PDF). Kanaka Genealogy web site. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
- ^ Kurrus 1998, p. 170.
- ^ Soboleski, Hank (November 3, 2013). "Hawaii con man and newspaper columnist Sammy Amalu". The Garden Island.
- ^ "Whatever Happened ... Notorious Sammy Amalu died in 1986". Honolulu Star Bulletin. September 16, 1998.
Bibliography
- Amalu, Sammy (1974). Jack Burns: a Portrait in Transition. Honolulu: Mamalahoa Foundation.
- Amalu, Sammy; Kāne, Herb Kawainui; Smith, Emerson Curtis (1971). On Hawaiian Folk Music. Honolulu: Island Heritage.
- Jividen, Doris (1972). Sammy Amalu: Prince, Pauper Or Phony?. Honolulu: Erin Enterprises.
- Kurrus, Ted (1998). Dyke, Bob (ed.). Sammy Amalu King of the Charismatic Con Men. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 170–180. ISBN 978-0-8248-1984-2. OCLC 249244077.
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