Moses Kekūāiwa

Moses Kekūāiwa (July 20, 1829 – November 24, 1848) was a Hawaiian prince and a member of the House of Kamehameha, the ruling family of Hawaiian Kingdom. He was the eldest surviving son of Kīnaʻu and Kekūanaōʻa, and was the older brother of King Kamehameha IV and King Kamehameha V. As a grandson of King Kamehameha I, Kekūāiwa was chosen to attend the Chiefs' Children's School (later renamed Royal School), where he was taught taught, alongside his siblings and royal cousins, by the American missionary Amos Starr Cooke and his wife, Juliette Montague Cooke. Kekūāiwa was declared eligible to succeed to the Hawaiian throne by his uncle King Kamehameha III, and was regarded as a potential future Governor of Kauaʻi. His upbringing within the traditional Hawaiian aliʻi (noble) environment sometimes conflicted with the strict moral discipline imposed by the school’s missionary teachers, and these tensions contributed to his expulsion from the school in 1847. Kekūāiwa died at the age of nineteen during the 1848 measles epidemic, before assuming any major political role.