California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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


HENRY MEISNER. � Beginning life under the unfavorable conditions 
prevalent in the old country, Henry Meisner has become a landowner and 
prosperous rancher in the country of his adoption, and by his own efforts 
has attained comfort for his declining years. Born in Bobofgina, Samara, 
Russia, July 22, 1872, he is a son of Adam and Margaret (Summer) Meisner, 
both now deceased in their native land, and the parents of five children. 

The youngest of the family, Henry was reared on the home farm in Rus- 
sia, and attended the public schools of Bobofgina. When twenty-one, he 
entered the Russian army in the artillery, and served at North Rastof for 
three years and eight months. On his return home he married there, in July, 
1898, Miss Marie Buschel, also a native of that province. After marriage, 
Mr. Meisner engaged in farming in Russia for a time, but in 1903 he made 
the journey to the land of greater opportunity, and located in Fresno, his 
family joining him a year later. For the first five years he worked in a plumb- 
ing shop. In 1911 he bought his ranch of forty acres on Barstow Avenue, 
and engaged in the dairy business ; he now is a viticulturist also, setting out 
Thompson seedless grapes, and meeting with the success made possible by 
habits of industry and thrift for which the Russian people are noted. 

Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Meisner: John, who died, 
aged two years, in Russia; Marie, born in Russia, is now Mrs. Sipe of Bars- 
tow ; John ; Henry ; and Adam. The family attends the Lutheran Church in 
Fresno and enjoys the comfort made possible by the parents' early planning. 
Mr. Meisner is a member of the California Associated Raisin Company, and 
a worker for the further upbuilding of his district.