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Did You Know or Don't You Care:  Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho Shot His Wife's Lover Henry Neilson

                                                 Review by Amelia Gora (2015)

Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho was a young King who succeeded to the throne after Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli died in 1854.

He was only 20, and married Emma Rooke, daughter of Fanny Kekela and Naea who was adopted by Dr. Thomas B. Rooke alone.

Kamehameha IV
King of the Hawaiian Islands (more...)
Reign	January 11, 1855 – November 30, 1863
Investiture	January 11, 1855 Kawaiahaʻo Church
Predecessor	Kamehameha III
Successor	Kamehameha V
Kuhina Nui	Keoni Ana Kaʻahumanu IV
Born	February 9, 1834 Honolulu, Oʻahu
Died	November 30, 1863 (aged 29) Honolulu, Oʻahu
Burial	February 3, 1864[1] Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum
Spouse	Queen Emma
Issue	Albert Edward Kauikeaouli
Full name Alekanetero (Alexander) ʻIolani Kalanikualiholiho Maka o ʻIouli Kūnuiākea o Kūkāʻilimoku.
House	House of Kamehameha
Father	Kekūanāoʻa Kamehameha III (hānai)
Mother	Kīnaʻu Kalama (hānai)
Religion	Church of Hawaii
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The following is a chronological look at the events which appeared to have been the cause of his early demise:

1834 -  Alexander Liholiho was born to Kamehameha's II widow Kinau and her new husband Mataio                 Kekuanaoa.

               Alexander Liholiho was a hanai hookama /adopted child who inherited sovereignty, of

               Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli.

1854 -  Kamehameha III - Kauikeaouli died.

1855 -  Alexander Liholiho became Kamehameha IV.

1856 -  Emma Rooke, adopted by Dr. T.C.B. Rooke, a true daughter of Fanny Kekela and George Naea,                 married Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho.

1857 -  Dr. Gerrit Parmele Judd owned a drug store on Fort and Merchant Street.  He had the following               available medicine, poisons available for sale:  

             Drugs, Medicines, and POISONS such as Arsenic, strichnine, veratrine, corrosive sublimate,

             oxilate acid, St. Ignacius beans, nux vomica, opium, Prussic acid, and alcohol.

            Note:  Dr. Gerrit Parmele Judd was an early genocide leader who withheld the smallpox

            vaccine from kanaka maoli and gave the vaccine to only his friends, family, and selected

            kanaka maoli.  Meanwhile, hundreds/thousands died from the smallpox epidemic. 

1858 -  Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho and Emma had a son named Prince Albert Edward Kamehameha.

1859 - September 11.  Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho shot Henry Neilson a presumed LOVER 

            of his wife Emma/Queen Emma.

            Henry Neilson, a former New Yorker, came from a physician's family.  His father was the doctor

            to millionaire John Jacob Astor who was one of the planners of the Christmas Santa Claus.  (see

            Santa Claus from Hawaii article by Amelia Gora)

           Henry Neilson died two years after Kamehameha IV shot him.  He had been a friend to the      

            King.

           Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho considered stepping down and allowing his sister

           Victoria Kamamalu be the Queen, but was convinced to not resign.

           Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho was willing to submit to a court trial but his counsel

           didn't think it was necessary.

          Note:  The truth of the matter is that Royal persons are not subject to the laws, Kamehameha IV

          was the King.

1859 -  Emma/Queen Emma and her husband Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho as the permanent               officer of the Queen's Hospital documented on the Incorporation documents helped to fund the                 Queen's Hospital.

1860 -  Kamehameha IV and his wife petitioned that the Church of England have a Church built in 

              Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.

1861 -  Henry Neilson died.  

              Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho declared and maintained a neutrality status in the  

             American Civil War.

1862 - Prince  Albert  Edward Kamehameha died, age 4.

            Palmyra Islands/Atoll was annexed by Captains Bent, and Wilkinson on assignment from 

            Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho.  The notice was posted in the PACIFIC  COMMERCIAL

            ADVERTISER and "considered and respected as part of the Domain of the King of the

            Hawaiian Islands.       L. Kamehameha, Minister of Interior"

            Important to note that the Genocide Activist Leader Dr. Gerrit Parmele Judd was an Agent of

            the American Guano Company claimed to have annexed Palmyra Island on behalf of the United               States and a posting to that effect was made after the Notice by L. Kamehameha was made/

            just below his article.

1863 -  Kamehameha IV died.  How did Kamehameha IV die?  Poison.

SUMMARY

A young, vibrant Kamehameha IV - Alexander Liholiho died at age 29.  His widow Emma had an affair with Henry Neilson, son of a Doctor living in New York who was the physician of Millionaire Jacob Astor - the person who helped create the Santa Claus character.  

Physicians connected to Kamehameha IV period included Dr. Neilson, Dr. Robert McKibbin - the Royal physician who also tended to Henry Neilson hours after he was shot, and Genocide Activist Leader Gerrit Parmele Judd who had a drug store selling Medicines, POISONS, and working for the American Guano Company as an agent?

Additionally,    "Under his eight-year reign the Kingdom saw the many territory additions. Laysan Island was annexed in May 1, 1857,Lisianski Island was annexed in May 10, 1857, and Palmyra Atoll was annexed in April 15, 1862. Some residents ofSikaiana near the Solomon Islands believe their island was annexed by Kamehameha IV to Hawaii in 1856 (or 1855). Some maintain that through this annexation, Sikaiana has subsequently become part of the United States of America through the 1898 annexation of "Hawaii and its dependencies". The U.S. disagrees.^[11]"

Research incomplete.

Informing many because..............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A19q7rysLs

References:

http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/GORA8037

theiolani.blogspot.com

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C02E2DE1630EE34BC4052DFB7678382649FDE  - Kamehameha IV news about the shooting, etc.

http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/June-2010/Kamehameha-IV-and-the-Shooting-of-Henry-Neilson/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artanc

wiki-pedia.com

http://maoliworld.ning.com/forum/topics/exposing-some-of-the-highlights-of-research-materials-by-amelia