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William Keolaloa Sumner
William Keolaloa Kahānui Sumner, Jr. (c. 1816 – May 25, 1885) was a high chief of the Kingdom of Hawaii through his mother's family; his father was an American from Massachusetts. Sumner married a Tahitian princess. Aided by royal family connections, he became a major landowner and politician in Hawaii.
After contracting leprosy in 1877, by law Sumner was exiled to Kalaupapa, Molokai. He served there as ''luna'' (superintendent) of the leper colony from 1878 to 1884. He died of leprosy in a Honolulu hospital the following year.
==Early life and family==
William Keolaloa Kahānui Sumner, Jr. was born circa 1816, the eldest son of Captain William Sumner (1786–1847) and High Chiefess Keakuaaihue Kanealai Hua. Captain Sumner, from Northampton, was an early settler of Hawaii who arrived in 1807 as a cabin boy. Befriended by Kauai's king Kaumualii, Sumner late advanced to the rank of a naval captain under King Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian Islands in 1810. His mother was the cousin and ''hānai'' (adoptive) sister of high Chiefess Ahia Beckley, who married an American naval captain.
William had younger siblings: John Kapilikea Sumner (1820–1915) and Maria Sumner (1824–1908). Maria married Henry Sea and later Robert Grimes Davis.
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