Sonoma-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Frehe, Louis 1848 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 3, 2006, 4:40 am Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Frehe, Louis. Was born in Germany, on the 6th day of January, 1848, where he received his earlier education, and served an apprenticeship to the shoemaker's trade; thereafter enlisting in the fourth company of the Second Hanover Dragoons, with which regiment he served during the Franco-German war, and was wounded in the left arm at the battle of Metz, the scar of which he still bears. On the cessation of hostilities he emigrated to America, landing in New York June 20, 1872, and immediately set out for California, arriving in Petaluma, this county, on July 1st of the same year. He here remained eight months, then went to San Francisco and resided in that city until August, 1873, when he removed to Santa Rosa and followed his trade until 1877, in which year he opened his present store. He married in Santa Rosa, July 2, 1876, Minnie Fritz, a native of Frankenhausen, Germany, by whom he has Alfred, born April 3, 1877, and Reichart, born December 25, 1878. Additional Comments: Santa Rosa Township Extracted from: HISTORY —OF- SONOMA COUNTY, -INCLUDING ITS— Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams; —TOGETHER WITH— A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County; Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain Growing Interests, and Pisciculture; ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN; —AND OF ITS— Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc. ILLUSTRATED. SAN FRANCISCO: ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1880. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/frehe952nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb