Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Heinz, Lorenz 1828 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

LORENZ HEINZ, a farmer northwest of Davisville, in Yolo County, was born January
9, 1828, in the Kingdom of Wirtemberg, Germany, a son of Franz and Margaret
Heinz, natives of Germany. He was brought up on a farm in the old country; his
father being a blacksmith he learned the same trade, and at the age of twenty,
being the only son and his father over sixty years old, he was exempt from
further army service. In 1849 he sailed from France to America on the vessel
Havre, and was thirty-six days on the voyage. Landing at New York he remained
there for a short there for a short time and went to Philadelphia, and engaged
at farm work near by in Chester County, in the employ of a man named Robert
Brown, for one year at $87. He then was employed at his trade, blacksmithing and
boiler-making, in Philadelphia until the fall of 1852, when he sailed from New
York on the steamer Uncle Sam for California, by way of the Isthmus, on the
Pacific side taking the steamer Cortez, and landing in San Francisco January 6,
1853. In that strange city he endeavored to find employment for a month, but in
vain, and as he was without means he became sadly discouraged. Board was $13 a
week, even for the plainest kind. At length he obtained a position in a
manufactory of iron doors and shutters, at $5 a day; but in a month he concluded
to go with some friends to Australia and gave up his situation; but the trip was
given up and his occupation gone. He went to Sacramento and then started to the
mines near Colusa on a steamer, which broke a shaft on the way, and while it was
lying to for repairs Mr. Heinz met some miners returning who gave discouraging
accounts. He returned again to Sacramento, heart-sick and discouraged. He went
to the mines again, only to meet further discouragement, and even opposition.
After hunting around for some time for employment, he was engaged by Wallace
Barnes, at $50 a month, and he worked for him six months, but never received a
cent of money for it! Next he engaged in a manufactory of iron doors and
shutters at Sacramento; next in a vegetable garden for Mr. Muldrow until spring,
when he again went to Sacramento and engaged in the manufacture of iron doors
and shutters for Radcliff & Company. Thus he was employed until the fall of
1854, by which time he had accumulated about $400. Placing this in a bank, he
struck out for the mines at Iowa Hill, where he worked for awhile, only for poor
returns. In the spring of 1855 he went again to Sacramento, only to find that
the bank had failed and all his hard-earned money gone! This almost
uninterrupted series of disasters were enough to drive any common man insane,
but Mr. Heinz still held up his head, and hired himself to a Yolo County man
named Alexander Manor for the summer. He worked for various parties until the
fall of 2860, when he with a band of sheep, located where he now lives, upon a
half section of land, which he obtained of a squatter, at a cost of $800; and
three years later he bought it a second time with school warrants of the State
of California. He has, however, continued courageously on until long since he
has made a fine home. His farm is one of the best kept in that section of the
county, and comprises 337 acres. What an example we have, in the sketch of such
a noble citizen, of patience and perseverance!

  Mr. Heinz was married December, 1862, to Miss Caroline Weimer, and they had
two sons —Charley and Theodore. Mr. Heinz was married again in the fall of 1871,
to Miss Lucia Kuehnel, a native of Germany, and they have three children,
namely, Julia, August J. and Lucia.


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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