Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Schuman, Gustave July 6, 1867 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

GUSTAVE SCHUMAN, Merchant and Capitalist. Founder of one of the pioneer 
carriage manufacturing houses in the Territory, Gustave Schuman directed the 
Schuman Carriage Co. through a period of rapid growth and expansion into one 
of the leading automobile agencies and dealers in accessories operating in the 
islands.
  When he was fourteen years old Mr. Schuman began laying the foundation for 
his future work, starting as an apprentice to learn furniture making in 
Germany. After a short period he followed an older brother to Hawaii, arriving 
here in 1884, and took a position as a carriage trimmer with the Carriage 
Manufacturing Co., where his brother was employed. Four years later he started 
a carriage shop of his own, and in 1896 he disposed of it to enter the livery 
business with the purchase of the Club Stables. In 1900 he built the 
Territorial Stables on King St., which he sold two years later.
  The present Schuman Carriage Co. was organized in 1897, and Mr. Schuman 
began the importation and sale on a large scale of all sorts of conveyances, 
harness and equipment. The firm was launched with but small capital, and in 
1901 it was incorporated as the Schuman Carriage Co., Ltd. In 1904 a motor car 
department, now representing the bulk of the business, was added, and today 
the company is capitalized at $1,000,000, is the largest privately owned 
automobile concern in the Territory, and is the agent for Ford, Lincoln, 
Hudson and Essex cars, Federal and White trucks, Goodrich tires, tractors and 
various automobile accessories. Mr. Schuman is president of the corporation, 
his son, W. G. Schuman, vice president; Thomas Ellis, treasurer, and Walter 
Beall, secretary and manager.
  Mr. Schuman spends a considerable part of his time in travel, returning to 
Honolulu at frequent intervals to exercise general supervision over the 
management of his many business interests. He owns and operates the Maui 
Motors, Ltd., at Wailuku, Maui; is interested financially in the Garden Island 
Motors, in Lihue, Kauai, the importation of livestock for plantations, and has 
large realty holdings in Honolulu.
  Born in Dresden, Germany, on July 6, 1867, Mr. Schuman is the son of Charles 
and Martha (Schmalden) Schuman. His father was a state highway inspector. Mr. 
Schuman attended the public schools until he was fourteen. In 1924 he married 
Ruth Wieky of San Francisco. He has two children by a former marriage, Mrs. 
Mervin B. Carson and W. G. Schuman.
  Mr. Schuman is an Elk, a member of the Commercial Club and the Chamber of 
Commerce. During the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy in 1893 he served as a 
sergeant of Co. D, Honolulu Rifles, and in the rebellion of 1895 he was a 
member of the Sharpshooters Company. In all he took part in four Hawaiian 
revolutions, those of 1887, 1889, 1893 and 1895.

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