Marin County Biographies

FRED SCHOENEMAN

Transcried  12-23-04  Marilyn R. Pankey

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Fred Schoeneman, proprietor of a wine garden and summer resort in San Rafael, is 
a native of Berlin, Prussia, born January 1, 1833.  His parents were Joseph and 
Mina (Conladig), and he was the third of six children. On growing up he learned 
the trade of a gunsmith.  He came to America and located at Philadelphia in 
1851, where he followed his trade as a journeyman for ten months; thence he went 
to New Orleans, Louisiana, St. Louis and St. Joseph, Missouri, and in 1852 he 
crossed the plains to California.  He engaged in mining at Placerville and other 
points in El Dorado county until 1858, when he visited West Point in Tuolumne 
county, in 1889; went to San Francisco and worked as a journeyman some twenty 
months; Virginia City, Nevada, was his next stand, where he carried on 
gunsmithing from 1862 until 1876, when he returned to San Francisco and remained 
in business until 1888.  Then he came to San Rafael and purchased his present 
business.  The resort is located centrally, on Fourth street, near Collodion 
avenue, and consists of four acres of beautiful vineyard--all wine grape; he 
manufactures his own wines.  The hotel building is a large two-story frame 
structure, with modern conveniences, and is open to the public the year round.
     Mr. Schoeneman was joined in marriage at San Francisco, May 22, 1865, with 
Miss Athena Blumar, a native of Germany, and they have four children, viz. 
Clara, Fred, Amelia and Lenicia.
     Mr. Schoeneman takes an active interest in school matters, and affiliates 
socially with Virginia Lodge, No. 3, of Virginia City, Nevada.
 
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, pages 676-677, Lewis Publishing Co, 
1892.