Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Von Holt, Hermann J. F.  August 11, 1830 - June 10, 1867
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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

HERMANN J. F. VON HOLT, Early Honolulu Merchant. Coming to Hawaii from Europe 
in 1851 with a cargo of merchandise, the later Hermann J. F. von Holt remained 
in Honolulu and founded a family which became one of the most prominent in the 
islands.
  A youth of 21, just out of school, Mr. von Holt was given his important 
commercial mission to the “Sandwich Islands” by his uncle. He was directed to 
see that a consignment of goods was sold in Honolulu, his uncle giving him 
permission to enter business in Honolulu if his own judgment so directed.
  Finding the islands to his liking, Mr. von Holt remained in Honolulu and 
established the firm of von Holt and Heuck, which was located on King Street, 
near Bethel, the site of the present von Holt Block, the firm afterwards 
moving to the corner of Fort and Merchant Streets, lately occupied by Castle & 
Cooke, Ltd.
  Mr. von Holt met and married one of Honolulu’s most popular belles of that 
early period, Miss Alice Brown, daughter of Thomas Brown, who came to Hawaii 
from England in 1844. The couple had three children, all well known to the 
present generation of Hawaii, H. M. von Holt, Marie von Holt, now visiting he 
half-brother, the Rev. Aeneas R. Mackintosh in Lancashire, England, and Bertha 
von Holt, widow of the late F. W. Glade of Kauai, now a resident of Oakland, 
California.
  Entering the consular service, Mr. von Holt was the last consul in Hawaii 
for the Kingdom of Hanover under the Hawaiian monarchy.
  While returning to Germany to visit his parents, Mr. von Holt died at sea on 
June 10, 1867. He was born in Hamburg on August 11, 1830. Although a young man 
at the time of his death he had attained a prominent and responsible position 
in Hawaii and is well remembered by those of his contemporaries who still 
survive.
  Six years after her husband’s death Mrs. Von Holt married Alexander 
Mackintosh, canon of St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Active in church work and widely 
beloved because of her gentle kindliness and support of charities, the tower 
of St. Andrew’s Cathedral was erected after her death as a monument to her 
memory. Mrs. Von Holt-Mackintosh died in 1904.


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