Hawaiian Historian. He was in the first class at Lahainaluna High School (Which was also the first school west of the Rockies), even though he was an adult by that time, and graduated in 1834. He served as School Master until 1842. He also wrote "Hawaiian Antiquities", a book on royal genealogies, and authored several other books, songs, poems, letters and newspaper articles. Translated parts of the Bible into Hawaiian. It was his own request that he be buried atop Mt. Ball(Paupau), in his words, to be buried 'above the tide of foreign invasion'. David Malo day is celebrated annually at Lahainaluna High School.
Hawaiian Historian. He was in the first class at Lahainaluna High School (Which was also the first school west of the Rockies), even though he was an adult by that time, and graduated in 1834. He served as School Master until 1842. He also wrote "Hawaiian Antiquities", a book on royal genealogies, and authored several other books, songs, poems, letters and newspaper articles. Translated parts of the Bible into Hawaiian. It was his own request that he be buried atop Mt. Ball(Paupau), in his words, to be buried 'above the tide of foreign invasion'. David Malo day is celebrated annually at Lahainaluna High School.
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