Marin County Biographies

MARTIN WEBER

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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              Born in Prussia, Germany, April 26, 1831.  When 
twelve years of age he came to the United States and settled seven miles from 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and there resided until he was seventeen.  Here he 
commenced learning the trade of a carriage painter, which he completed in 
Chicago, Illinois, and there labored at it until he came to California in 1853.  
Arrived in San Francisco January 6, 1853, and there remained until 1858, when he 
returned to Chicago, but came back to this State in the following year.  He 
sojourned in San Francisco until 1864, then came to Tomales; in 1867 he went to 
Petaluma, removing from there in October, 1872, and settled on his present 
place.  Three years thereafter he erected a shop on is farm, where he has since 
worked at his trade and followed farming.  Married Rosannah Champenosis, on 
August 16, 1856, a native of Hastings, Oswego county, New York, by whom he has 
William N., born May 29, 1857; Martin John, born May 29, 1862; Joseph Albert, 
born January 28, 1866.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880