California Biographies, Alameda County 
Joseph Dieves

History of Alameda County, California
Publisher: Oakland, Calif : M. W. Wood

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Joseph Dieves�Whose portrait appears in this work�was born in Heimerzheim,
on the Rhine, Germany, August 24, 18 16. where he received a common school
education; served his apprenticeship to the cabinet-maker's trade, and resided until he
attained the age of twenty-five years. He then was absent three years in Belgium,
France, and Holland, during which he improved himself in the mechanical departments
of his trade, and on his return home worked at his calling till the year 1847,
in which year he emigrated to the United States, settled in Boston, and resided there
until 1848, when he located near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and followed his own occupation
combined with farming. In 1853 he came to the Pacific Coast, arriving in
San Francisco on the 15th of April, and proceeding directly to the mines at Sonora
City, there remained three months, at the end of which time he came to Alameda
County, settled in the city of Oakland, and engaged in carpentering until 1856. At
that period he opened the Eagle House, then the principal hotel there, situated on
Second Street and Broadway, and there remained until 1861. He then moved to the
Three-mile House on the San Leandro Road, where he remained three years, after
which taking charge of the Continental Hotel in San Francisco for three months.
Mr. Dieves next took the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Oakland, and conducted it until
1868, when he returned on a visit to Germany. On coming back to California he
built on Ninth Street, Oakland, and subsequently purchased an interest in the Oakland
Brewery, a history of which will be found in its proper place. Married in April,
1846, Miss Gertrude Gette, a native of Germany, and has two children, Joseph P.,
born January 2, 1847; and Mary, born" September 29, 1849.