Contra Costa-Amador-San Joaquin County CA Archives Biographies.....Grunauer, Louis 1854 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

LOUIS GRUNAUER.—The pioneer merchant of Brentwood, a native of Prussia, was born
October 6, 1854. When eleven years of age he attended school in Hamburg for
three years. He then, at fourteen years, emigrated to America, first locating in
New York for one month. Now he sailed via Panama for the Pacific Coast, and
arrived in San Francisco in November, 1868. His first move was to Amador county,
where he clerked for one year. He next spent eight years in the same capacity in
San Joaquin, Mr. Grunauer then engaged in business for himself in Alameda
county, where he resided for one year, and in September, 1878, came to Contra
Costa, to what is now the town of Brentwood, built his present large store and
hotel, opened the first business house of that thriving town, and in 1880,
received the appointment of postmaster of Brentwood.

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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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