Santa Cruz County Biographies

HENRY DAUBENBIS

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        This gentleman is well known in this county, prominent in politics and 
conspicuous in all measures that have for their aim the best interests of the 
community in which he resides. He is at present a member of the Board of 
Supervisors from the Soquel district. He owns a farm of one hundred acres of 
choice land near Soquel, five acres of which are devoted to a variety of choice 
fruits, the balance used for agricultural purposes. He is the youngest of seven 
children and a brother of John Daubenbis.
        Henry was born on the Rhine in Germany, August 28, 1828. He came to New 
York in 1853, arriving on the 16th of October. He arrived in San Francisco on 
the 19th of the same month in the following year. He came directly to Santa Cruz 
and settled at Soquel, where he has since resided. He was first elected as a 
member of the Board of Supervisors in 1882, and has continued in the office ever 
since, serving from 1886 to 1888 as chairman of the board.
        He was married, in 1858, to Miss Margaret Gamar, of Newark, New Jersey. 
They have had seven children, three of whom are married: Clara L., Henry J., and 
Esther. Charles, Julia, Edward, and Louis comprise the balance of the family. 
Mr. Daubenbis can be pardoned for being proud of his family, as he has an 
unusually bright, industrious, and steady lot of boys, and the girls possess all 
these attributes, and are pretty, too.
        Henry is thoroughly Americanized, full of life, vigor, and jollity, fond 
of a joke, and the smile which it sometimes provokes. That he is respected and 
esteemed by his friends and neighbors is best indicated by his official record 
of ten consecutive years on the Board of Supervisors.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891