Yolo County Biographies This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm C. MEZGER C. MEZGER, proprietor of the bakery and restaurant in Woodland, was born in Europe, in 1846, and in 1856 he was brought to America, landing at New York city. Within seven years he learned his trade in the Pine Bakery, and then came by water to San Francisco, in 1866, and a short time afterward to Yolo County, where he was first engaged upon a ranch for three years; and then he went to Woodland, worked for Otto Sloan. Fourteen years afterward he bought the place on Main Street in Woodland, which he now occupies, near the Bank of Woodland. He married Mary Orlner, who was born in 1870, and they have six children: Otto C., Max J., Bertha M., Harry, Ernest and Lawrence. Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891 Transcribed by Betty Wilson