California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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H. R. Bussenius

H.R. Bussenius - The subject of this sketch was born in Hanover, Germany, Province Hanover, August 
31, 1820, and there received his education at the Gymnasiam in Luneburg, and afterward graduated 
from the Johanneum College, in the spring of 1840. The following five years Mr. Bussenius spent in 
visiting different parts of the globe, arriving in San Diego in March, 1841, and spent some two years on 
this coast and in Central America. In 1845 he returned to his native country. He graduated as apothecary 
in Hanover, and engaged in the drug business for three years. In February, 1848, Mr. Bussenius again 
crossed the ocean to America, first locating in Wisconsin, and engaged in farming, where he resided for 
one year; but the climate proving too cold and severe for him, he then, in company with his brother, 
started for California, crossing the plains and arriving September 20, 1849, and first located in Nevada 
County, where he was engaged in mining and afterward in a drugstore in Nevada City, until 1873. We 
next find Mr. Bussenius in St. Helena, Napa County, engaged in his present business of druggist, on the 
corner of Main street and Railroad avenue. Mr. Bussenius was united in marriage in Nevada County, at 
Blue Tent, December 26, 1861, to Miss Johanna Gebhard, daughter of Mrs. Dr. Pfeiffer Stone, Oakland, 
a native of Mainz, Germany. The names of their children are Robert, Adolph, Lillie, and Ernst.