Yolo County Biographies

ABNER ABELE

Abner Abele, a farmer of Yolo County, is a son of Joseph and Francisca (Yeager) 
Abele, natives of Germany.  He was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, August 7, 1826, 
lost his parents when fourteen years of age, and when twenty-five years old 
emigrated to this country.  The first five years here he spent in Buffalo, New 
York, following his trade as cooper; spent one year in Canada; returned to 
Buffalo, and next was in Erie, Pennsylvania, two years, where in 1856 he married 
Theckla Heemle, also a native of Wurtemburg.  After following his trade two 
years in the latter place he went again to Canada and conducted a cooper-shop of 
his own three years, when he came to California, by the Isthmus route.  Going to 
Yolo, he first worked as a day laborer until 1862, and then purchased a place of 
his own.  He now has 1,120 acres two miles west of Cacheville.  He has three 
sons and three daughters living, namely:  Joe, Alois, John, Francisco, 
Josephine, Mary and Ragena.  Two of his children are deceased, -- Adolph and 
Agata, besides a grandson named Joe Abele.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891

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