Sierra County Biographies

C. A. Heringlake

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
He was born in Westphalia, Germany, July 3, 1827. When fourteen years old he 
began to learn the trade of baker and confectioner, at which he worked until he 
came to the United States in 1855. After his arrival in this country he spent 
three years at his trade in Dayton, Ohio. Part of the years 1858-59 he spent in 
Indiana, and from 1859 to 1861 in Illinois. At that time he came to California, 
worked one year at his trade in San Francisco, coming to Downieville in the 
spring of 1862. Here he ran a bakery for a year; then in company with A. C. 
Busch, opened a hotel. In 1865 he bought an interest in the Gold Bluff Mining 
Company, and worked with it for a year, when, with A. C. Busch, he bought the 
Sierra City ranch. They kept the hotel till 1872. At that time they opened a 
store, which they are now running. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 490