Contra Costa-San Francisco-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Gehringer, Andrew 1823 - 1879
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

ANDREW GEHRINGER.—Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Wurtemburg,
Germany, June 12, 1823, where he resided and learned the trade of line maker
until the age of twenty-one years. He then sailed from Bremen for the United
States, arrived in New York in July, 1843, and first found employment on a farm
a short distance from the city. Here he remained until 1846, when he enlisted in
Company H., First Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the United States army. In
September of that year, his regiment was sent round Cape Horn, on board the
Susan Drew, and, after a passage of seven months, arrived in San Francisco
April, 1847; his corps being assigned to the Presidio, he there remained until
his discharge. Mr. Gehringer then engaged in mining, and afterward, in 1851,
moved to Santa Clara county, where he embarked in farming, and resided for
twelve years; but owing to a defective title, he lost his valuable ranch of
three hundred acres. In the Fall of 1863, he moved to Contra Costa county and
bought his present estate of seven hundred acres, two miles east of Concord, and
is now engaged in general farming and stock raising. Mr. Gehringer was married,
in San Jose, to Mrs. Henrietta Bollmann; by this union they have two children,
Conrad A., and Lena Christianna.

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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