Alameda-San Francisco-Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Schween, Ernest 1835 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

ERNEST SCHWEEN, a prominent farmer near Pleasanton, Alameda County, was born in
Holstein, Germany, May 13, 1831, and at the age of twenty-two, in 1854, he came
to America by sail vessel from Hamburg. Landing at San Francisco, he was
employed on the farm in that vicinity for two months; then until 1865 in Eden
Township, Alameda County; then in Washington Township, same county, for three
years. In 1868-'71 he was a farmer in Monterey County; in 1872 he located in
Murray Township, near Pleasanton, and followed farming there about eleven years,
when he purchased 650 acres of land where he now resides. He has about twenty
acres in vines, which yield annually forty to fifty tons of grapes.

  He was married in Eden Township, May 25, 1861, to Miss Metta Luders, and the
names of their eight children are: Ernestine A., Charles H., William F., John
H., Matilda M., August A., Walter J. and Louise C. Mr. Schween is a member of
Industry Lodge, No. 63, A. O. U. W., at Pleasanton.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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