Alameda-San Francisco-Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Wente, C. H. 1851 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

C. H. WENTE, a vineyardist near Livermore, was born in Hanover, Germany, August
19, 1851. In 1881 he came to America, landing at New York and coming directly to
Kansas, where he was engaged in farming for six months near Topeka. Then he came
to California, stopping in San Francisco and in Contra Costa County for a short
time, and then he was engaged in the vineyard and winery at St. Helena, Napa
County, for a year; then he was in the same business in Lake County; and
finally, in 1884, he went to Livermore and purchased a vineyard of fifty acres,
twenty-eight acres of which were in vines five years old and yielding 120 tons
of grapes annually. At the present time the same acreage yields more than that.
He has a large winery on his farm, and last year made 50,000 gallons of wine,
and increased the capacity 20,000 gallons this year, a large portion of which is
shipped to New York and Philadelphia: besides, he supplies a large local trade.
Now the entire farm is a vineyard. He has his bottling department and office at
33 Post street, San Francisco. Twenty acres are in the highest type of clarets
and white varieties.

  August 19, 1884, in Oakland, he married Barbara Trautwein, and they have three
children living, namely, Ida M., Caroline F. and Charles F.


Additional Comments:
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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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