Los Angeles-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Brickner, John 1835 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    MR. AND Mrs. JOHN BRICKNER are among the best known of the first settlers of
Santa Monica, and have seen it grow from a four-corner hamlet to the present
thrifty proportions of a thriving and promising city. Mr. Brickner is a native
of Germany and was born near Berlin, January 3rd, 1835. He there spent the
earlier years of his life and in 1875 married Miss Augusta Court, a maiden of
sixteen years. They almost immediately came to America, landing in New York and
made their way westward to San Francisco, thence to Los Angeles, where they
remained one month. On September 16th, 1875 they came to Santa Monica and cast
their fortunes with the then new and wholly undeveloped seaside city, where they
made some substantial investments, which, with the somewhat sudden rise and
subsequent fall of the town finally terminated in heavy losses. Later they
opened the first store for the sale of curios in Santa Monica, which is said to
have been the first store in this line in Southern California.

    Mr. Brickner relates interesting stories of his hunting expeditions, notably
duck hunting on the lagoons of what is now Play a del Rey, and likewise where
the canal city of Venice now stands. This he pursued in a business-like manner
and made it quite a source of revenue, finding ready market for his game in Los
Angeles. Mrs. Brickner took up the curing of the plumage of the many fine
specimens of these birds and became a somewhat expert taxidermist. The work was
placed on exhibition with the Agricultural Association of Southern California,
then the leading institution of its kind in Southern California, and received
diplomas and cash premiums for superior excellence. They have been continuously
in business in Santa Monica since they arrived here and were for eighteen years
on Utah Avenue, between Second and Third Streets. In March, 1907, they removed
their store to No. 210 Third Street, where they have one of the most complete
stock of curios, notions and furnishing goods in the city.

     Mr. and Mrs. Brickner are widely known and highly esteemed for their
splendid traits of character and strict integrity in all matters.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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