Tehama-Colusa County CA Archives Biographies.....Wiedemann, Carl Frederick Ludwig 1844 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

CARL FREDRICK LUDWIG WIEDEMANN, one of Red Bluff's energetic business men, was
born in Wolgast, Province of Pomerania, Prussia, March 25, 1844. His parents
were honest and industrious farmers in that country, and gave their son a
common-school education, and also had him learn the trade of shoemaker, and thus
prepared him for earning an honest living. When a young man he was enrolled in
the victorious German army, and participated in the war which resulted in the
taking of the French capital. After his discharge from the service he went to
Hamburg, Germany, and in 1873 came to the United States, with the object of
making a home and fortune in this "land of the brave, and home of the free," as
so many of his fellow countrymen have done. Mr. Wiedemann landed on the 4th of
June in Louisville, Kentucky, and was engaged there by an extensive shoe dealer,
H. Schoening, until February 14, 1876. He had found America, but his keener
preception taught him to seek the best place in it, and he consequently started
for California, the El Dorado of the West, landing in San Francisco. He went to
Princeton, Colusa County, but on account of ill-health he went to the Tuscan
Springs, and then to Red Bluff, where he engaged in shoe manufacturing, and the
repairing of boots and shoes.

  Mr. Wiedemann was married in 1877, to Miss Wilhelmina Ross, a native daughter
of the Golden West. They lived happily in their own dwelling until 1881, when it
was consumed by fire, and he then built his two-story brick store on the west
side of Main street, and opened his present boot and shoe store. His wife takes
as much interest in his business as himself, and while he is making and
repairing she is selling the goods from the store. In 1887 Mr. Wiedemann
purchased, from L. Froh, a farm, on Grasshopper Creek, where they resided for
two years. He planted fourteen acres of fruit trees on this place, but as it was
not congenial to either of them they traded the property for two residences in
Red Bluff, which he now rents. He was raised in the Lutheran faith, and his wife
is a Presbyterian. Politically he is a member of the Republican party, and
fraternally is a Master Mason.


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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