J. W. H. Kauwahi

J. W. H. Kauwahi (1824–1870) was an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Hawaii beginning in 1851 and was a member of the legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was the author of the first published dictionary of Hawaiian.
Kauwahi was one of those converted and baptized in 1851 into the LDS Church through the efforts of George Q. Cannon. At the time, Kauwahi lived on Maui and was a member of the legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He later went with Philip Lewis to build up the LDS Church on Kauai. For much of 1853, Kauwahi worked with Cannon on doing a close read of the Hawaiian translation of the Book of Mormon that Cannon and Jonathan Napela had created. Kauwahi and Uaua took a letter to Kamehameha III seeking an audience with him for representatives of the LDS Church. Kamehameha seemed willing to do this, but his ministers opposed the plan.
Kauwahi seems to have left the LDS Church by 1856. In 1857, a dictionary of the Hawaiian language written by Kauwahi was published.