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Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Brandt, Thorvald  December 23, 1861 - April 2, 1925
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

THORVALD BRANDT, Banker and Civic Leader. Long prominent on the Island of 
Kauai as a banker, business man and civic leader, Thorvald Brandt has been 
manager of the Waimea branch of the Bank of Bishop & Co., Ltd., since its 
establishment in 1911. Many years of service in the commercial life of Kauai 
preceded Mr. Brandt’s selection as manager of the bank.
  After receiving his primary education in private schools in Christiania, 
Norway, his birthplace, he was graduated from the Christina Commercial 
Business College. He came to Honolulu as a youth in 1885 and was a bookkeeper 
at Kekaha plantation for two years. Then he became connected with C. B. 
Hofgaard & Co. at Waimea as a clerk and later was promoted to manager. He 
continued to serve as treasurer of C. B. Hofgaard & Co. and was president of 
the Waimea Stables, Ltd., from 1901 until 1923.
  Mr. Brandt has always been interested in church and welfare work and is a 
trustee of Waimea Foreign Church and of Waimea hospital, in addition to 
service as president of the Kauai Y.M.C.A. from 1916 to 1918. His civic 
activities include membership on the Kauai board of supervisors, 1905-1907 and 
1915-1919. He also was a school commissioner from 1913 to 1915 and deputy tax 
collector for Kauai for ten years.
  Mr. Brandt was born in Christiania on Dec. 23, 1861, the son of K. C. H. and 
Birgitte (Gruner) Brandt. He married Claire E. Borron in Honolulu on Aug. 21, 
1905.
  (Editor’s note: Mr. Brandt’s untimely death, on April 2, 1925, occurred 
after the foregoing biographical sketch had been prepared for publication.)


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