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Max Schlemmer
Maximilian "Max" Joseph August Schlemmer (April 13, 1856 – June 13, 1935) known as the "King of Laysan" was a German immigrant to the United States of America who settled in Hawaii and spent fifteen years from 1894 to 1915 living with his family on the Hawaiian island of Laysan as superintendent of a guano mining operation. Schlemmer was interested in the birdlife of the island and made several studies which provide information on historic bird populations. The ecology of the island was altered by several factors including the introduction of rabbits by the family and this led to the extinction of endemic bird species such as the Laysan rail and Laysan millerbird at the turn of the 20th century. A biography of Schlemmer was written by his grandson Tom Unger.
==Early life==
Max was born in 1856 to German parents living in Scheibenhardt, Alsace Lorraine on the border of Germany and France. He moved to New York in 1871 fearing the advance of the Prussian army into France and worked for several years aboard whaling ships before moving to Kauai in 1885 to live in a "German town" called Lihue.〔Unger:5〕 Max worked for some years at a sugar mill and applied his mechanical skills to a small railroad system for transporting material at the mill. He married Auguste Bomke on September 5, 1886 at the Lutheran church in Lihue. Auguste had three children (Marianne called Mary, Auguste called Gussie and Max Jr.)and after her death Max Sr. married Auguste's younger sister, Therese on March 22, 1895. Therese had several more children with Max Sr.〔Unger:23〕 Max obtained a job in the North Pacific Phosphate and Fertilizer Company which extracted nitrate from the guano obtained from islands where birds nested in large numbers, particularly Laysan Island. Max and his family with two workers moved to the Laysan Island and were the sole humans living on it leading to the jocular epithet of "King of Laysan Island." and continued to mine guano even after the company that he worked for moved out their operations.
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