Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Kergel, August 1856 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

AUGUST KERGEL, a Yolo County agriculturist, is a native of Prussia. His parents
were Gotlieb and Anna Rosa (Veimert) Kergel, natives of that country; the
father, born in 1804, died in 1885, and the mother, born in 1811, died three
months after her husband, both in the old country. Mr. Kergel, our subject, was
born August 12, 1832, and September 22, 1860, he started for California and
arrived in San Francisco. Directly he took a boat from Sacramento and in a short
time went into Yolo County and began to work for John and Michael Bemmerly, and
was in their employ five years; and finally he purchased a ranch where he now
resides, being now the owner of 640 acres.

  His first wife, whom he married in 1868, died the next year, and subseqently
he married Miss Eslock, his present wife, and they have seven children, named
Lewis, August, Charlie, Joe, Agnes, Nettie and Annie.


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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