Sonoma-Sacramento-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Winkle, Henry 1821 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Winkle, Henry. Born in Germany, March 10, 1821. In 1840 he emigrated to the
United States, first settling in New York, where he resided until the Fall of
1843, when he went to Florida, there keeping a hotel, where he remained one
year; thence to Fort Gaines, Early county, Georgia, and engaged in the bakery
business for two years. In 1846 he went to Pensacola, Florida, and remained
there until 1849, keeping a bakery and grocery store, when in October of that
year, he proceeded to Panama, where he remained about three months; whence he
proceeded to California, arriving in San Francisco in March, 1850. He soon
became a resident of Sacramento, where he carried on a bakery and coffee saloon,
also operated in real estate, which he followed until the Spring of 1852, when
he began the manufacture of soda, which he prosecuted until late in 1853. In
January, 1854, he returned to San Francisco, and followed the bakery business
until 1873, also operated in real estate, when he engaged in the wine and liquor
business. In 1876 he came to this county, and settled on his present estate, one
hundred and ten acres. In 1858, Mr. Winkle manufactured cement in Benicia,
Solano county, which was the first manufactured on the coast. Married Miss Emma
Steudeman April, 1864, she being born in Germany, October 15, 1826.



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Sonoma Township

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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.


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