Contra Costa-Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Berlingen, Mathias 1830 - 
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Author: W. A. & Slocum & Co. (1882)

MATHIAS BERLINGEN.—Everybody in this county knows or has heard of the subject of
this sketch, as he is known to be one of the most prosperous farmers in the
county. A native of the Rhine province, Prussia, he was born January 18, 1830,
and there received a common school education, and resided until 1861. He then
emigrated to America, and first settled on a farm near Chicago, Illinois, where
he remained some two years; and in the Fall of 1863, started, via New York and
Panama, for the "golden shores" of the Pacific, arriving in San Francisco
December 26th of the same year. His next move was to Solano county, where he
worked on a farm for three years, and, in the Fall of 1867, came to this county,
purchased his present valuable and well-improved farm of four hundred acres in
the Point of Timber district, two miles north of Byron, and is now considered
one of the most well-to-do as well as one of the most respected citizens of the
community in which he lives. Mr. Berlingen was united in marriage in San
Francisco January 29, 1874, to Else Katharina Schnoor, a native of Flensburg,
Schleswig, Germany. He has one stepchild, Kate Schnoor, born September 16, 1867.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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