San Joaquin County Biographies


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CHRISTIAN NEUMILLER.
 
        Prominent among the sturdy progressive pioneers of Stockton who will 
long be pleasantly and gratefully remembered as the representatives of a 
public-spirited, widely-respected family in the front rank of Californian 
settlers, was the late Christian Neumiller, who died at his home in Stockton on 
November 3rd, 1919. He was born at Wolfersheim, Canton Zweibruecken, in Rhenish 
Bavaria, Germany, on February 16, 1835, and when twenty years of age came to the 
United States and served an apprenticeship to the baker's trade. When a 
full-fledged journeyman, he worked as a baker in Baltimore, Md., Alexandria, 
Va., and Washington, D. C., and in 1858 migrated westward to California, via the 
Isthmus of Panama. He arrived in San Francisco on October 18, 1858, and after 
six days in the Bay City moved inland to Stockton where, on New Year's Day, 
1859, he entered the employ of the State of California, becoming chief baker in 
the bakery department of the State Hospital at Stockton. From the beginning he 
gave satisfaction to everybody; and he continued to discharge that 
responsibility, at times not altogether light, until September 1, 1908, when he 
retired, rounding out an enviable record, especially for almost continuous 
service, for he was with the State Hospital all the time, with the exception of 
about five years, or from 1867 to 1872, when he was engaged in farming in San 
Joaquin County. On his retirement, therefore, he completed about forty years of 
honorable service in the state, during which time Stockton continued to be his 
home �excepting, of course, the period when he was on the farm, near 
Collegeville, about ten miles from Stockton.
        In June, 1865, Mr. Neumiller was married to Miss Marie Mey of 
Sufflenheim, Alsace, then a part of France, who had come to the United States 
twelve years before and had reached California for the first time in 1863. She 
died at Stockton on August 18, 1905, esteemed and beloved by all who knew her, 
the revered mother of two daughters and two sons, Mrs. Mary E. Minta, widow of 
the late Judge Wesley Minta, of Stockton; Miss Emma C. Neumiller; William C. 
Neumiller, treasurer and tax collector of San Joaquin County, and Charles L. 
Neumiller, a member of the law firm of Neumiller & Ditz, elsewhere written of in 
this work. These worthy representatives of one of the worthiest pioneer families 
hereabouts continue to reside at Stockton, Charles L. Neumiller and the two 
daughters making their home at the old Neumiller homestead, and William C. 
Neumiller maintaining his own home with his family.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p    888      
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.