Contra Costa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Dohrmann, Frederick Henry Christian 1807 - 1873
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

FREDERICK HENRY CHRISTIAN DOHRMANN, (deceased.)—The subject of this sketch,
whose portrait appears in our history, was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, March
22, 1807, where he received a liberal education, and learned the trade of
miller. On December 8, 1833, he espoused Miss Johanna Sophia Kummer, a native of
Gottingen, who was born September 25, 1809. Mr. Dohrmann followed the milling
business in his native place, and became the owner of extensive interests,
possessing at one time three different mills-—flouring, saw and oil. However, he
sought fresh fields for his operations, and November 23, 1853, with his wife,
first having disposed of his property, they both bade farewell to the land of
their birth, and took passage to America, arriving in San Francisco June 23,
1854. After a short residence in that city, they went to Contra Costa county,
for two years conducted the San Pablo Hotel, and in 1856, moved to the farm
where his family now reside, comprising one hundred and ninety-seven acres,
which he bought August 17,1865, from J. M. Tewksbury, where our subject died,
justly regretted, October 24, 1873. The children by the union are: Frederick,
born June 6, 1834; Eliza, (now Mrs. Thalmann) born June 10, 1838; Henry, born
April 29, 1840; Mary, (now Mrs. Koppitz) born March 12, 1845.

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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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