John ʻAimoku Dominis

The boy was the illegitimate son of Liliʻuokalani's husband John Owen Dominis and Mary Purdy Lamiki ʻAimoku (1855–1921), one of her household retainers.

His father was an American from Schenectady, New York who served in many political posts including as Governor of Oʻahu during the reigns of the Kamehamehas and the House of Kalākaua, which he married into.

His mother was a hapa-haole, of part Hawaiian descent, while his maternal grandmother Mary Purdy was a relative of the family of Samuel Parker.

[1] ʻAimoku served as an assistant clerk to Henry Smith in the local circuit court and later worked the insurance business in the office of Bishop Trust Company before his last illness.

The Queen Liliʻuokalani's Trust offered the property to the territorial government with the understanding they would "will make provision for the rights of the Dominis minors, who have a life interest as tenants in the premises."

By taking Washington Place via eminent domain, neither the trustees nor the territorial government had to compensate the Dominis' children and they were deprived of their claims to the life estate.