Eric Alfred Knudsen (July 29, 1872 – February 12, 1957) was an American writer, folklorist, lawyer and politician who grew up and lived on

Kauai Kauai (), anglicized as Kauai ( or ), is one of the main Hawaiian Islands. It has an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km2), making it the fourth-largest of the islands and the 21st-largest island in the United States. Kauai lies 73 m ...

, Hawaii. His father was

Valdemar Knudsen Valdemar Emil Knudsen (August 5, 1820 – January 5, 1898) was a sugarcane Sugar plantations in Hawaii, plantation pioneer on west Kauai, Hawaii. Background Valdemar Emil Knudsen was born in Kristiansand, in Vest-Agder county, Norway. He was coll ...

, a west Kauai

sugar plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tobacc ...

pioneer. He married Cecilie L'Orange on September 15, 1905, in

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. They had five children. Knudsen was a delegate from Kauai to the

1904 Republican National Convention The 1904 Republican National Convention was held in the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on June 21 to June 23, 1904. The popular President Theodore Roosevelt had easily ensured himself of the nomination; a threat had come f ...

. He was also a member of the

Hawaii House of Representatives The Hawaii House of Representatives () is the lower house of the Hawaii State Legislature. Pursuant to Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution of Hawaii, amended during the 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention, 1978 constit ...

, and served as its Speaker from 1905 to 1907. He is most known for his writings and collections of short stories of and about Hawaiian folklore and culture.

Selected works

* ''Hawaiian tales told by Teller of Hawaiian Tales'' (1945) * ''Kanuka of Kauai'' (1945) * ''Teller of Hawaiian Tales'' (1946)

Family tree

References

External links

Eric A. Knudsen Trust
{{DEFAULTSORT:Knudsen, Eric Alfred 1872 births 1957 deaths Businesspeople from Hawaii Speakers of the Hawaii House of Representatives American people of Norwegian descent Harvard Law School alumni Members of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature Writers from Hawaii Hawaiian Kingdom people