Upon arriving in Hawaii, Jørgen Christian Jørgensen adopted the Anglicized name Charles Claus Christian

The following is the text from a handwritten letter written to family in Denmark about Charles Christians life on Kauai . Letter was written shortly after his death and was dated Jan 7 1911:

Both Seeking for The Unknown Land

The late Charles Christian was born in Alsen, an Island of Denmark lying near the Cattegat in the entrance to the Baltic sea, but which now is part of the German Empire. He lived the greater part of his life, before coming here at Flensburg near Alsen. He came to these Islands in 1867, and made his residence on Kauai where he spent the first three or four months at Koloa in the employ of August Speirr , then an independent cane planter. Towards the middle of the year he took up his residence at Lihue, where the late Paul Isenburg, then manager at Lihue Plantation gave him a position as Luna.( Cane field Supervisor)The first five years he was stationed in charge of the section known as Pokaki on the North side of the Plantation, where his residence was in a house not far from the dwelling of Captain LaGrange, now occupied by Mr. Beckert. It was at this time that he married Emma Elizabeth Spencer, by whom he became the father of twelve children, eleven of whom are still living, residing in different parts of the Territory.
From Pokaki he was transferred to Hanmaulu Plantation, at the time it was first started in the year 1878 by A.S. Wilcox, and he held the position of Mill Manager and sugar boiler there until 1896, when he went to Molokai and tried independent ranching there for a year at Kamale , but gave it up finally and returned to Lihue. It was there that he first took up outside work under Lihue Plantation. During this period , he Superintended the construction of the first Plantation railway for Hanamaulu among other things and in 1898 when Wilcox sold out his interest in Lihue Plantation, he was appointed Manager of Hanamaulu Plantation, the position he has occupied ever since, up to the time of his death.
While occupying these responsible positions with Lihue Plantation Mr. Christian has been an ambitious and yet practical man, faithful and reliable in his work, occupying a high place - as a high minded and honorable citizen.
His death leaves a void in Lihue which will be hard to fill, both as a trusted employee at the plantation and as a beloved citizen of the county.

A week ago last Thursday the manager of Hanamaulu Plantation, Charles Christian one of the best known residents of Lihue District suffered a hemorrhage while riding back from his regular early morning tour of inspection of the fields of cane. This turned out to be the beginning of the end.
The next morning he bravely started out for his work again , but found he was not in condition to do anything and returned home. While on the way back at 5:15 A.M. he had the second hemorrhage and as soon as he reached home went right to bed. He stayed in bed until Wednesday morning, at which time he had his third attack, which was a serious one and left him very weak. The Doctor then had him carried gently over land to the Lihue hospital, and although he was conscious almost to the last he passed away at eleven o'clock on Thursday night.
The end came unexpectedly and the only members of his family who were present when he breathed his last were his wife and one of the daughters (Mrs. Blackstad)of Waimea. They were summoned hastily and reached the hospital just as he was expiring. Mrs Christian has for several years suffered from heart disease and the shock of hearing so suddenly of her husbands death was too much for her. Her husband had already told her just after the third hemorrhage that he felt his time had come and that she must not take it too hard especially as she still had the children to think about, and they would need all her care. But the strain was too severe in spite of the warning, and when Mrs. Blackstad returned from her Sister Mrs Wedemeyers near Lihue school, where she had gone to tell the family of her Mother drawing her last breathe.
At Four O'clock the services began, being conducted by Reverend Pastor Isenburg* and Father Hermann, as the deceased couple were of different religious faiths, with Mrs. Christian being Catholic and Mr. Christian of the Lutheran faith.Both churches were represented, the service over Mrs. Christian's body being held first by Father Hermann of the Kapaia Church, followed by the Lutheran service conducted by Pastor Isenburg* over the husbands remains.
At 5 o'clock the bodies were transferred to caskets and borne down to the grave yard at Kapaia Catholic Church , each carried by six statured pall bearers , employees of the Plantation and followed by the Lihue Band playing slow music all the way and then a throng of about four hundred of the local residents, walking down the hill to the burial grounds to the solemn dirges of the Band.
There they were placed side by side in the grave, the last funeral service pronounced and the caskets covered with earth again and a mass of flowers placed by loving hands on the first last resting place of the couple. The final words were said just at sunset by Father Hermann over the remains and then the large encourse of mourners departed for their homes again and peace reigned over our Island once more.

* Rev. Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm Isenberg(1855-1918)"Hans"