Translations:Maximilian Eckart (Da VII 12)/14/en

Jeweler and Butcher

Maximilian completed an apprenticeship as a silversmith in Emskirchen but had worked as a butcher most of the time. His brother Christian, eleven years his senior, had already emigrated to Brazil in 1855 and then via San Francisco to Hawaii, where he had married and opened a jewelry store. At that time, Hawaii was not yet part of the United States, but rather an independent kingdom, reigned by King Kamehameha V. Maximilian benefitted from the connection with his brother and followed him to Honolulu in order to work there as a jeweler. Maximilian Eckart left Emskirchen at the age of 26 and reached Honolulu from San Francisco on the steamship "Idaho" in August 1868. Christian had given him money for the journey.