Christian Johann Adam Daniel Wilhelm Gerhard Eckart

GEDCOM Note

Max's decision to leave home saddened his mother, (a widow for the past 15 years), for his destination lay half-way around the world and the distance alone precluded frequent trips home. But she thought of Christian, her second son who had established a jewelry business in the city of Honolulu soon after his arrival there with his wife Mathilde on Jan. 2, 1867, and she reasoned, with Max there to help his brother, her two sons would surely prosper. And so she was comforted. Max himself, 26 years old and a bachelor, probably needed little urging to join his brother in that land of never-ending summer, for what man has not ever dreamed of escaping to a South-Sea island paradise.