Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hjorth, Johan Ludvig V. September 4, 1868 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOHAN LUDVIG V. HJORTH, Magistrate. Activity in many lines of endeavor had 
marked the career of Johan L. V. Hjorth until 1916, when he was appointed 
district magistrate for the Lihue district of Kauai, where he still serves.
  After an education in the public schools and a business college of Denmark, 
he turned to the sea and attended the Royal Naval College and a private 
navigation school in Denmark. He went to sea in 1884 and followed that life 
until 1893, when he decided to make his home in Hawaii. His first employment 
in the islands was as bookkeeper for Meyer and Kruse, Kekaha plantation, from 
1893 to 1897, when he returned to the sea as chief officer on Inter-Island 
Steam Navigation Co. vessels.
  Three years later he became bookkeeper at Hanamaulu plantation, where he 
remained until 1911, when he came to Honolulu as foreman and agent for the 
Hawaiian Dredging Co. He spent the next two years with the Construction 
Quartermaster Department of the army at Schofield Barracks. He returned to 
Kauai in 1914 as bookkeeper for the Nawiliwili Garage and as wharfinger at 
that port. He resigned both positions in 1917 when called to service as a 
first lieutenant in the Officers’ Reserve Corps.
  Meanwhile Judge Hjorth had been admitted to practice in all the district 
courts of the Territory and was appointed district magistrate for Lihue on 
Sept. 1, 1916. In 1917 and 1918 he also acted as bookkeeper for the Kapaa 
store and has been assistant bookkeeper at Lihue plantation since August, 
1918, and cashier and bookkeeper for Lihue Hospital since 1922.
  Born at Aalborg, Denmark, on Sept. 4, 1868, Judge Hjorth is the son of Jacob 
Peter and Louise Vilhelmina Jansen Tjaden (Van Rosendaal) Hjorth. He married 
Mary Louise May at Lihue on Feb. 15, 1902. They have five children, John 
Thomas, Eric Edward Hjalmar, Christian Herbert Alexander, Francis Reginald and 
Gwendolyn Hjorth. 
  He is a member of Kauai Lodge No. 589, F. & A. M., and Harmony Lodge No. 3, 
I.O.O.F.


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