California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


A. J. HONIGSBERGER. Among the active and progressive business men of Visalia is A. 
J. Honigsberger, proprietor of one of the leading clothing establishments of Tulare county. 
A man of good impulses and strict integrity, careful and conscientious in all of his dealings, 
he is observant of those high moral principles that have gained for him the respect of the com- 
munity and the good will of his fellow-men. 

Born, reared and educated in New York City, A. J. Honigsberger began life as a wage-earner 
at the age of thirteen years, finding employment in a jewelry store. His health failing, he came 
to San Francisco, Cal., in 1876, and was there engaged in the wool business for a number of 
years. Locating in Visalia in 1891, Mr. Honigsberger opened a gentlemen's clothing and fur- 
nishing goods store, and has since built up an extensive and lucrative trade. Beginning on a mod- 
est scale, he enlarged his operations as demanded by his patronage, and has now a fine location 
on the corner of Church and Main streets, having moved to this building on its completion, in 
1897. By good management and thrift Mr. Honigsberger has accumulated a competency, a 
part of which he has invested in real estate, having a peach orchard of ten acres lying a mile 
and a half southwest of the city. He is identified with the business progress of this section 
and is a member of the Visalia Board of Trade. Politically Mr. Honigsberger supports the 
principles of the Democratic party. Fraternally he was made an Odd Fellow in San Jose, and 
now past grand of Visalia Lodge, past chief patriarch of Visalia Encampment; a member 
of the Rebekahs, and of the Visalia Canton; and belongs to the Woodmen of the World.