Hermann A. Widemann

Hermann Adam Widemann was a businessman from Germany who was a judge and member of the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Hermann Adam Widemann was born in Hanover, Germany on December 24, 1822. As a teenager he went to work on a whaling ship. He came to live in the Hawaiian Islands in 1846, after stopping in 1843. He came briefly to the California Gold Rush in 1849, but returned after his companion John von Pfister was murdered.149 He married a native Hawaiian Kaumana Mary Kapoli in 1854 and lived in Lhu e. He became sheriff of the island of Kaua i in 1854, was elected to the house of representatives in the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1855, and in 1863 appointed its circuit judge. He started one of the first sugarcane plantations in Hawaii known as Grove Farm. During the American Civil War he supported the Confederate States.180

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