Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

C. J. HENRY MINDEN

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            The birth of C. J. Henry Minden occurred on his parents� ranch one 
mile southeast of Nicolaus, on March 31, 1872, the second eldest of six children 
in the family of Herman and Wibka (Dickmann) Minden.  Herman Minden was born in 
Germany in 1830, and on April 17, 1869, he was married to Miss Dickmann, also a 
native of Germany, born in 1850.  Herman Minden came to the United States in 
1854 and settled in Wisconsin; later he removed to Louisiana.  In 1856 he came 
via Panama to California and settled near Nicolaus and bought 320 acres of land 
which he farmed to grain the balance of his lifetime.  He served ten years as 
levee director of District No. 2. He passed away in 1881, survived by his widow 
and four sons and two daughters.  The mother of our subject resided on the home 
place until her death on March 17, 1917.
            C. J. Henry Minden finished the grammar school course at the old 
Nicolaus school.  The Minden brothers conducted the home ranch for their mother, 
raising grain, but later ran a dairy for fifteen years.  Recently they sold the 
dairy stock to good advantage.  The home place is now jointly owned and operated 
by our subject and his brother August Edward Minden.  
            On June 15, 1920, in Sacramento, Mr. Minden was married to Mrs. Mary 
Madeline (Hupp) Martin, native of Butte County, and daughter of John Hupp and 
Rosanna (Woolever) Hupp, natives of Virginia and Canada, respectively.  John 
Hupp came to California when he was nineteen years old and operated a sawmill in 
the mountains of Butte County; he brought the machinery for his first sawmill 
when he came in 1849, via Cape Horn to California.  Mrs. Minden has one son by 
her former marriage, Charles Edgar Martin.  He served in the U. S. Mail 
department of the A. E. F. for eight months and received his discharge with rank 
of sergeant; he is married and resides at Chico.  C. J. Henry Minden served for 
ten years as director of Levee District No. 2.
            August Edward Minden was born on the old Herman Minden homestead on 
August 6, 1876.  He attended the public school in Nicolaus, after which he 
joined his brothers in the care of the home place.  Gus Minden, as he is 
familiarly called by his many friends, is a member of Pleasant Grove Lodge No. 
269, I.O.O.F.  Politically the family are all Republican.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1136