HENRY REINHARDT
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SURNAMES: WEISS, MUNCH, DeWITT, FRUHLING<
Henry Reinhardt,
deceased, one of the early settlers of the Hamilton District, was born in
Mulhausen, Province of Alsace, Germany, July, 1818. In his native land, in
1844, he married Miss Rosalie Weiss, who was born in the same province in 1822.
Mr. Reinhardt was reared to a farm life in Germany. In 1849 he visited the
United States, spending some time in New York city and Albany, but not finding
an opening to suit him he returned to the old country after a few months. There
he was engaged in dairying and farming until 1857, when, with his wife and six
children, he embarked for America, landing at New York city. After spending
three months in Philadelphia they came by way of the Isthmus to San Francisco,
reaching that place in the autumn of the same year. Two years, as a renter, he
occupied the family homestead where he lived so long, his crop of grain raised
in 1859 paying in full for the land which he bought in 1860. The 160 acres (the
homestead) fronts on the Santa Clara and Los Gatos road, three miles south of
Santa Clara. All the improvements on the place were made by Mr. Reinhardt. He
was a systematic, frugal, and energetic man, living a most worthy life,
respected and esteemed by all who knew him. He was at the time of his death a
member of the German Methodist Church. He died December 1, 1883. His widow now
resides at No. 78 South Third Street, San Jose. She is the mother of sixteen
children, six of whom are living: Mrs. Lena Munch, Santa Clara; Emile, a
resident of Salinas City, Monterey County; Otto A., who resides upon the old
homestead; Mrs. Emma DeWitt, of San Jose; Mrs. Matilda Fruhling, of San Jose;
Martha F., lives with her mother. Mrs. Reinhardt owns a number of residences
and other city property in San Jose.
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.
Pg. 371-372
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy
AMOS ROBINSON
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SURNAMES: MARCH, CLINE,
Amos Robinson was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio, February 6, 1833. His parents were Kinsey and Hannah (March) Robinson, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Ohio. His father came from Scotch ancestry. His grandfather, Jonah Robinson, a resident of Virginia during the Revolutionary War, and a soldier in the army, received wounds from which he subsequently died. His wife was Johanna Daniels, and while her three brothers were in the Revolutionary War, she had the entire care of their families.
Amos Robinson was reared in his native town until seventeen years of age, when he went to Pomeroy, Ohio, and learned the tinner’s trade. After remaining there three years he started for California across the plains, being 131 days on the trip, and a rough trip it was. He went at once into the mines at Camptonville, where he remained eight years, working at Camptonville, Indian Hill, and Jamison Creek. He worked two years at Timbuctoo, and two years at Marysville, and for two years had a shop at La Porte. He then sold out and went East. Upon his return to California, in the fall of 1867, he located in Gilroy and engaged in the hardware business. After being alone one year he took in a partner, the firm being Robinson & Hitchcock. Four years later Mr. Robinson bought out his partner’s interest, and has since continued in the business alone. He erected his present building in 1868, the dimensions being 21x100 feet, with a two-story warehouse in the rear, 30x20 feet. Mr. Robinson carries a stock valued at about $6,500; does a general hardware and stove business, and makes a specialty of the manufacture of dairy work and dairy supplies, well casings, etc., his trade, in some lines, extending as far south as Bakersfield, and sends well casings to all the towns and cities within reach of Gilroy. He made up over thirty tons of iron in this line in 1887.
He was married in
Wisconsin, October 21, 1869, to Miss Matilda Cline, a native of Pennsylvania, by
whom he has one child, Herbert. Mr. Robinson is a charter member of No. 54, I.
O. O. F., and of A. O. U. W., No. 26. He has passed through the chairs in the
I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. Lodges, and has represented both in the Grand
Lodge. He is also a charter member of the Vigilant Engine Company, and the only
charter member left. He has been Foreman three years, and First Assistant six
years, which office he holds at present. In politics he is a Republican.
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.
Pg. 340-341
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy
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