Santa Clara County Biographies


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FREDERICK W. TANTAU
SURNAMES: MILLER

FREDERICK W. TANTAU is the son of Mathew and Catharine Tantau. He dates his 
birth in New Orleans, April 23, 1849. He was a child of four years when his 
parents crossed the plains and established their residence in the immediate 
neighborhood of the place where he now lives. The property which he now owns and 
occupies, consisting of 247 acres, comprises a portion of his father's estate, 
and included the old family homestead which was established in 1858. It is 
situated in the Doyle District, on the Bollinger road, west of Campbell's Creek.

His education was that received in the district school, supplemented by 
attendance of two years at the University of the Pacific. In October, 1877, he 
married Miss Josephine Miller, the daughter of Fred Miller, of San Francisco. 
Their first-born, Freddie, died in 1881, in his third year. They have two 
daughters, Evelyn and Minnie. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tanau are members of the German 
American Church. Mr. Tantau has grown up with Santa Clara County, and has kept 
pace with the steady, onward march of progress which has carried the county 
forward to the front. He is thoroughly identified with all the interests of his 
community and neighborhood, and rejoices in the fulfillment of every enterprise 
which tends to advance the prosperity of the county. He is a Republican, as was 
his father, but has strong Prohibitionist tendencies.

SOURCE: Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World of Santa Clara County, 
California, Illustrated. - Edited by H.S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing 
Company, 1888. page 541 Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben