Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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CHARLES F. HEINZEMAN 
 
is emphatically the representative druggist of Southern California, having been 
in the business in Los Angeles twenty-one years. His commodious store, at No. 
122 North Main street, is the most artistic and elegant in its finish and 
furnishings in this part of the State, if not on the whole Pacific Coast. The 
ceiling and walls are tastefully decorated with fresco painting, and the 
shelving and counters are of unique and ornate designs in rare finely carved 
woods, making the whole interior of the
place a real work of art and a thing of beauty. In the rear of the ample 
salesroom, and connected by arched aisles, are the laboratory and private 
office, and back of them a large, well‑filled store room, thus giving a 
completeness to one of the most attractive drug stores on the continent. Mr. 
Heinzeman does an extensive retail and prescription business, probably the 
largest south of San Francisco, in which the services of six men and a boy are 
required. Mr. Heinzeman was born in Wallmerod, in Central Germany, in 1841. He 
received a liberal education and a special training for the drug business in his 
native land, having attended the chemical school of Dr: Fresenius, one of the 
most eminent analytical chemists in the world.  In 1868 he immigrated to 
America, and, after a brief stay in New York and San Francisco, came to Los 
Angeles, embarking at once in his chosen pursuit; and has carried on the 
business for two decades, on the site of his present splendid new store, built 
during the season of 1888. Before leaving Europe, in the year 1868, Mr. 
Heinzeman was joined in marriage with Miss Antonia Preuss, an American lady, 
born in New Orleans. Three sons and five daughters comprise their family. The 
two oldest sons, Carl and Edward, are associated with their father in the drug 
business.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 503
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler