Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wolters, Herman February 14, 1873 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com January 19, 2012, 8:23 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist HERMAN WOLTERS, Plantation Manager. Herman Wolters has been associated with the development of the sugar industry on the Island of Kauai since 1892. Beginning with the former Honolulu firm of H. Hackfield & Co. in 1888, he spent four years there and, removing to Kauai, worked successively as timekeeper, bookkeeper and head overseer on the Lihue, Kekaha and Pioneer plantations. In 1914 he was placed in charge of the Hanamaula section of Lihue plantation, and three years later became manager of the Makee Sugar Co., his present position. He has been chairman of the board of trustees of the Sam Mahelona Memorial Hospital at Kapaa since 1917, and is a member of the Prison Board of Kauai. For ten years he was chairman of election inspectors in the Lihue district, and since 1920 he has been a director of the Bank of Hawaii, Lihue branch. He is also a member of the Kauai Chamber of Commerce. During the World war he was actively engaged in Red Cross work and Liberty loan drives as chairman of the Kawaihau district of the Red Cross and Liberty loan organizations. Mr. Wolters was born in Breman, Germany, Feb. 14, 1873, the son of Herman and Marie Louise (Bohnenkamp) Wolters. He was educated in the public schools of Bremen, and came to Hawaii to go to work at the age of 15. In 1899 he married Martha O. Wolters of New York City. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/wolters667bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb