Mr. Paiko, kamaaina Honoluluan, was born in this city on July 19, 1852, and was almost 90 years old. His birth occurred two years before the death of King Kamehameha III, who was best known to his people as Kauikeaouli and who granted the great mahele or division of lands between the crown, the nobles, and the people.

Death came to Mr. Paiko at 5:25 a.m. yesterday at St. Francis hospital after an illness of several years duration.

Mr. Paiko's father, Manuel Paiko, came to Hawaii as a whaler in the 40s of the last century. He was from the island of Pico in the Portuguese group of the Azores and became known here as "Manual do Pico," the name in time becoming "Hawaiianized " into Paiko.

"The original Paiko, one of the first Portuguese to settle in Hawaii, in time acquired one half of the ahupuaa of Kuliouou, land which runs from the sea to the crest of the mountains which top Waimanalo. He engaged in cattle raising and was one of the first on Oahu to go into this business on a commercial scale.

The elder Paiko's son, the late Joseph Paiko, after his father's death, engaged in shipping and at one time owned the schooner Domitila, which he sailed between the islands and engaged in freight carrying. Captain Paiko retired from active work 40 years ago.

Surviving Mr. Paiko is a son, Joseph Paiko, Jr., now in his seventy-second year.  

Joseph Paiko Obituary

Honolulu Advertiser, June 1st, 1942

December 3, 1908

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