Napa County Biographies

EDWARD VON PESSL

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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            EDWARD VON PESSL is the intelligent and gentlemanly superintendent 
of the Sebramsburg wine cellars, Napa County.  He is a native of Bavaria, 
Germany, born on the 2d of April, 1862, a son of Edward and Eva (Schieffmann) 
Von Pessl.  Commencing his education in the government schools of his native 
land, he received their training until fourteen years old, then attended college 
at Amberg for five years, and was graduated in 1881.
            In 1883 he came to the United States, and to Napa Valley, 
California, direct from New Orleans.  Having selected the wine business as his 
field of operation and determined to learn it from its fundamental principles 
up, he entered the employ of Mr. Schram as a workman in the vineyard.  He next 
went into the cellar, and was placed in charge thereof in 1887.  There is no 
detail in cellar handling of the Schramsburg wines that does not receive the 
benefit of his intelligent supervision, and some of the credit for their great 
reputation must be conceded him.  Mr. Von Pessl has a ranch of his own in 
Douglas County, Oregon, near Rossburg, comprising 250 acres, which is operated 
by his brother John.
            Hosts of visitors to the Schram vineyards and cellars are under 
obligations to Mr. Von Pessl for courtesies and kindness shown them there.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891