Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hofgaard, Christorpher Blom October 5, 1859 - 
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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

CHRISTOPHER BLOM HOFGAARD, Merchant and Magistrate. More than two-score years 
ago Christopher Blom Hofgaard, just graduated from a business college in 
Christiana, Norway, heard the call of Hawaii and answered, to carve out from 
himself in the islands an unusual career as merchant, public official and 
district justice.
  The first position of the newly-arrived young man in the islands in 1882 was 
on the Wailuku sugar plantation where he worked several months, leaving to 
accept a clerkship in C. H. Dickey’s store at Haiku. Later he was promoted to 
manager of the Dickey store at Paia. In April, 1885, three years after his 
arrival, he left Dickey’s employ to enter business for himself. He moved to 
Kauai and started the firm of C. B. Hofgaard & Co., in October of 1885, which 
was so successful that he was enabled to retire from active management twelve 
years later, but retained the presidency of the company, which was 
incorporated in 1901.
  For more than 30 years Mr. Hofgaard was the representative of the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society in the islands. In addition to the presidency of the 
Hofgaard firm he also was treasurer of Waimea Stables. From 1885 to 1886 he 
was a clerk in the post office and served as postmaster at Waimea, Kauai, from 
1886 to 1918, auditor for the county of Kauai in 1905 and road supervisor from 
1886 to 1898. He was appointed district magistrate in 1904 and is still 
serving as such.
  In addition to his business and public offices, welfare and church work drew 
much of Mr. Hofgaard’s attention. He was a member of the district committee of 
the Hawaiian Board of Missions, a member of the Y.M.C.A. committee, president 
of the board of trustees of the Waimea foreign church society, a trustee of 
the Mahelona hospital, and a member of the Kauai board of child welfare.
  He also is vice-president of the Kauai Historical Society and a member of 
the Kauai Chamber of Commerce, a Mason , a member of the Order of the Eastern 
Star, and of the Knights of Pythias. 
  Mr. Hofgaard was born in Skien, Norway, on October 5, 1859. His parents were 
Gerhard Didrik and Didrikka (Blom) Hofgaard. He received his education at high 
school and at the Christiana Handelsgymnasium. He arrived in Hawaii on Jan. 
22, 1882. At Waimea on Nov. 13, 1889, he married Marie Mahlum, and four 
children were born to them – Gertrude, Gerhard, Esther and Didrik.


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