California Biographies, Alameda County 
Charles A. Klinkner

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

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Charles A. Klinkner.�The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in
this work, is the son of John and Catharine (Hermann) Klinkner and was born in
Ausen, Germany, June 25, 1852. When our subject was only two years of age his
parents emigrated to the United States, and on arrival proceeded to Iowa and located in
the town of Cascade. Here his father followed the shoemaker's trade, while Mr. Klinkner
attended school. At the early age of eleven years he entered a mercantile establishment
in that place, subsequently removing to Worthington, where he remained
three years. For a year previous to his coming to the Pacific Coast he followed farming.
August 19, 1872, he started for the Golden State, arriving in San Francisco on
the 28th of that month. He first found employment in the auction house of Van
Shaack, on Kearny Street, where he remained eleven months, at the expiration of which
time he proceeded to Solano County, followed farming for four months, and subsequently
started and continued a huckstering trade throughout the country for two
years. In the fall of 1875 he engaged in and laid the foundation of his present prosperous
business, in canvassing for Hollister & Co., and at the end of one year opened a
factory at No. 103 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, for the manufacture of rubber
stamps. Here he prospered until he found his quarters too limited, when, in 1878, he
moved to his present place of business at No. 320 Sansome Street, San Francisco,
where he is engaged in the manufacture of all kinds of rubber stamps�a business
that with small beginnings has grown into one of vast proportions. Married in Vacaville,
Solano County, November 23, 1875, Miss Catharine Parke, a native of Alameda
County, and has three children, viz.: Charles A., Frederick G., and Herman.