Lake County Biographies

MARTIN WALDFOGEL

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Is a native of Switzerland, and was born September 15, 1835.  When about 
eighteen years of age he went to France, where he spent about fifteen months, 
and then came to New York.  After visiting New York, Pennsylvania, and 
Indianapolis, he settled in St. Louis, where he remained about fifteen months.  
He then went to New Orleans, and shipped for California.  Crossing the Isthmus 
of Panama, he arrived at San Francisco in the spring of 1855.  Mr. Waldfogel 
went at once to Marysville, where he remained about four months; then went to 
the mines, where he followed mining until the spring of 1857, when he came to 
Lake County and located in Long Valley, where he resided about twelve years, and 
then settled on his present place, consisting of two hundred acres, located 
about three miles from Upper Lake, on the road to Bartlett Springs.  He married, 
in August, 1871, Miss Emma Hoffner, who died in October, 1873.  He married, 
secondly, June 13, 1877, Miss Caroline Gerr, a native of Prussia.
 
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California, publ. 1881 � pg. 285-286