Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Stening, Fred Victor 1877 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

FRED VICTOR STENING

    A native of Dortmund, Westphalia, Germany, this successful and artistic
merchant tailor was born February 21, 1877, a son of Herman and Louise
(Gronenberg) Stening, natives of Germany, who lived out their lives in the
Fatherland. The father, who was a merchant tailor, passed away in 1907. Of their
nine children Fred Victor was the fifth in order of nativity. The years of his
childhood and boyhood until he was fourteen were passed in acquiring such
education as he was afforded in the public schools. Then he served a three
years' apprenticeship to the tailor's trade under his father. After that he was
a journeyman tailor in different German provinces and in Austro-Hungary, Italy,
Switzerland and other parts of Europe until 1897. His service in the German army
followed, and for two years he was a member of the First Company, Second Guard
Grenadiers, Emperor Francis Joseph Chief of Honor Regiment. In 1901 he came to
America and for two years worked at his trade in Chicago, Ill. From there he
went to Denver and other places in Colorado, including Colorado Springs, but
working most of the time in Denver, till he moved on to Goldfield, Nev. After
working there three months he came, in October, 1905, to Sacramento, and from
Sacramento he came to Woodland in March, 1906. Soon after his arrival he opened
a merchant tailor's establishment and from the first was so liberally patronized
that the growth of his business was a foregone conclusion. Carrying a large line
of woolens, foreign and domestic, and employing only the best help and keeping
in touch with the styles from year to year, he has proven himself to be the
truly up-to-date tailor of his city. In 1911 he bore the expense of time and
money incidental to a trip to Chicago in order there to study the latest methods
of the most advanced tailors in the art of garment cutting. His patrons are
among the really good dressers of Woodland and vicinity. His location at No. 433
Main street is one of the most attractive in the town.

    Since coming to Woodland Mr. Stening has married one of Woodland's native
daughters, Miss Harriette Aronson. She has borne him a daughter whom they named
Clara Louise. Socially Mr. Stening is an Eagle. He is a member of the Woodland
Merchants' Association.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]




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