Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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P. P. KIEFER, 

senior member of the firm of Kiefer & Company, wholesale dealers in imported and 
domestic liquors, is a native of Germany, and was born in Bingen on the Rhine, 
January 11, 1835. His parents emigrated to America during his early childhood 
and located in the State of Wisconsin, near Milwaukee. During his boyhood he 
attended the common schools, and upon reaching manhood engaged in the grocery 
business in Milwaukee. In 1856 he went to St. Paul and engaged in business there 
until 1860, at which time he came to the Pacific Coast and landed in San 
Francisco on May 1, of that year. He was first employed in a store, and the 
following year he went to Tulare County and engaged in hotel and mercantile 
business and stock-raising, successfully carrying on a large business there for 
many years. He still owns a large ranch property in Kern County. He came to Los 
Angeles January 1, 1882, and afterward associated with his brother John, in the 
present business of Kiefer & Company; and since his brother retired from the 
business, January 1, 1887, he has been the head of the house. This firm deals in 
all kinds of imported and domestic wines and liquors. Until two years ago they 
handled their own wines. This company is one of the most reliable in Southern 
California and has a large established trade. Mr. Kiefer was married in 1874 to 
Miss Edith M. Barr, a native of Placerville, California, and daughter of J. B. 
Barr, one of the pioneers of '49. Mr. and Mrs. Kiefer have one son living�James 
Paul; and one son, Oren A., is dead.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 527
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler