Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Sieber, Chris 1847 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

CHRIS SIEBER, proprietor of the Pacific House at Woodland, is an example of
those who came from a foreign land to young America and have attained affluence
under our benign institutions. He was born January 29, 1847, in Germany, in the
Kingdom of Wirtemberg, a son of Ludwick and Rosa (Linck) Sieber. His father, a
farmer, came to America and to California in 1886, and died the next year, in
Woodland, at the age of sixty-seven years. The subject of this biographical
mention remained at home on the farm until he was fifteen years of age, when he
commenced to learn the tinsmith trade. After completing that he sailed from
Liverpool to New York city, where he remained a year working at his trade. In
1866 he came by the Nicaragua route to California, worked a year in his vocation
at Sacramento, and then two years at the same in Woodland, when he engaged in a
bakery and saloon, which he ran successfully for three years. He then disposed
of his bakery and continued the saloon until 1881, when he purchased the Tackney
House. He afterward changed its name to the Pacific House, under which name he
is now running it, with magnificent success. He is also interested in the
Woodland brewery, the electric light system of the city, the Woodland street
railway and various other enterprises. He was elected in 1878 a member of the
City Council, and he served also as City Treasurer two years. He is a member of
Woodland Lodge, No. 111, I. O. O. F., and also of the O. C. F.

  He was married in 1874 to Miss Frederica Buod, a native of Germany, and their
children are Frieda, Christ, Louie, Elsie and Bertha.


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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