Lorenzo Lyons

Lorenzo Lyons or Makua Laiana was an early missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was a songwriter who composed Hawai i Aloha, which was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 1998. Lyons spent the lastyears of his life as postmaster in the district surrounding Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii.

He was born in Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts, April 18, 1807. He graduated from Union College in 1827. Ordained as a Congregationalist minister at Auburn Theological Seminary, September 20, 1831.

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