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 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


LOUIS HAECKL.  Son of George and Gertrude DuBoise Haeckl, born in Strasburg, Alsace, France, August 
2, 1832, and remained in his birthplace until he was thirteen years of age. His parents having died 
previous to this time, he went to Bavaria, locating in Munich, and engaged as waiter at the Golden 
Cross Hotel until 1849, when he engaged as curler aufamitte to Prince Giza, from Roumania en route to 
Bucharest, leaving after three months for Constantinople, where he was engaged to travel with a 
party of scientific men to Asia, Bagdad and the coast of the Arabian Seas, coming in turn through 
Palestine and Egypt, returning to Constantinople in the summer of 1851, and starting with the Russian 
Charge du Affaires, Mouss. Le Compt Covalevsky, for a trip around the Levant and Europe, also Egypt, 
and remained in his service till August, 1853, when he enlisted in the French Army, to go to the 
Crimean War, as a private, and was afterwards promoted as dragoman to Omeer Pasha, in which 
service he remained till the close of the Crimean War, when he removed to Cairo, Egypt, where he 
remained at Shephard's Hotel three years, and then moved to Melbourne, Australia, in 1858, where 
he got married August 6,1861, to Johanna Kelly of Scotland, and moved in 1866 to California, where he 
arrived in November. He remained two years in San Francisco, and came to Napa City in March, 1868, 
and arrived in Calistoga in March, 1873, where he still remains, and has run the Star Hotel since his 
arrival, and at present holds the office of School Trustee. He has a family of twelve children, six girls 
and six boys, named as follows: Mary, Justus, John, Louis, George, Theresia, Charles, Willie (died 
March 31, 1881), Annie, Laura, Eva and Mabel.