Napa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Manasse, Emanuel 1842 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

EMANUEL MANASSE has lived in California for the past twenty-five years, and in
Napa since 1872. Born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, in 1842, he received
his education in the public schools, and was then apprenticed to the tanning
business, serving for two terms, the first in the tanning of heavy and the
second in the tanning of light leathers, thus gaining a thorough knowledge of
the business. At the age of nineteen he came to this country, and at once
secured employment at a large salary. Owing to the war then in progress and the
heavy duties on French calf and kid skins, Mr. Manasse invested his entire
capital, about $300, in a small plant for tanning leather. He was very
successful, realizing some $7,000 in one year, when a fire swept factory, stock
and all his means into oblivion in a couple of hours. Having about money enough
to bring his wife and children to California, where her father then lived, he
started in business in San Francisco, with the usual ups and downs of those
days, where he remained until 1872, when he came to Napa to take charge of the
manufacturing in the establishment of B. F. Sawyer & Co. Beginning as foreman,
he soon originated a method of dressing leather now known as the Napa Patent
Process, which he at first allowed the firm to use on payments of royalty, but
in 1879 he became a member of the firm, and later, on its incorporation as a
stock company, he was elected vice-president and was one of its directors.

  Mr. Manasse was married in 1864, to Miss Amelia Helwig, born in his own native
town, and a daughter of Henry Helwig, for many years engaged in the tanning
business in San Francisco. They have six children: Lena, a graduate of Snell
Seminary, Oakland; Henry, who graduated at Napa College, and is now connected
with the Norton Tanning Company, of San Francisco, of which Mr. Manasse is a
stockholder and director; Anna, also a graduate of the Napa College; Edward, who
is now learning the tanning business in the Sawyer establishment; August,
attending the Oak Mound College; and Amelia, who is still attending the Napa
public school. Mr. Manasse is a member of the Masonic order, Yount Lodge, No.
12; member of Napa Chapter, No. 30; member of the Napa Hall Association; member
of Napa Lodge, No. 18, I. O. O. F., and of the Odd Fellows' Hall Association, of
Napa.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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