Contra Costa-Placer-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Wilkening, Henry 1835 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

HENRY WILKENING.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this
work, was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, November 28, 1835, where he resided
until the age of sixteen, when he sailed for Bremen, July 4, 1852, for the
United States, arriving in New York August 20th. There he found employment in a
grocery store, where he remained two years. In July, 1854, he sailed from New
York in the North Star, by the Nicaragua route, for California, and on the
Cortez, on the Pacific side, arriving at San Francisco in the early part of
August. Remaining there a few days, he proceeded to the mines on the Yuba river,
working at different camps until 1864. From there Mr. Wilkening went to Antioch,
Contra Costa county, and there resided six months, when he returned to New York
with the intention of remaining, but at the end of twelve months he again
started to visit the Pacific Coast, this time coming via Panama, arriving July,
1865. He went, on arrival, to Placer county, and from there to Franklin Hill,
Plumas county, where he followed mining for the space of seven years. In July,
1874, he again visited Contra Costa county, and conducted the "Red House," near
the present site of Byron. In 1877 he purchased his present property, on which
now stands the town of Byron. In 1878, he erected his present commodious hotel—
the Byron Hotel, of which he is at present the affable and obliging host.
Besides owning the hotel, he has a saloon and livery-stable at Byron. Married in
San Francisco, October 14, 1876, Annie Percy, a native of Somersetshire,
England. By this union there is one son, Byron H., born February 3, 1880.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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