El
Dorado County
Biographies
LOUIS J. SCHEIBER
Louis
J. Scheiber, who for a number of years has been successfully engaged in
business in Diamond Spring and has a host of admirers throughout his section of
El Dorado County, was born in Switzerland on the 22nd of September,
1863, and is a son of Joseph and Josephina (Gusch) Scheiber. The father died in his native land and
subsequently the mother came to the United States with her family, locating in
Diamond Spring, California, where her death occurred. Louis J. Scheiber was a lad of eight years
when, in 1871, he came to El Dorado County, and in the rural schools of this
locality he secured his educational training.
For a number of years he was employed in dairies in this section of the state,
and later worked in the woods for a lumber company. He then engaged in the liquor business and in
1895 came to Diamond Spring, where he has carried on mercantile pursuits to the
present time, meeting with success.
Mr.
Scheiber was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Schneider, whose father, Henry
Schneider, crossed the plains in an early day and became one of the pioneer
butchers of this locality. Mr. and Mrs.
Scheiber are the parents of six children:
Clarence, Pearl, Roy, Ernest, Mrs. Grant and Lula, a school teacher.
Politically
Mr. Scheiber is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party and fraternally is
a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots,
the Order of the Eastern Star, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Loyal Order
of Moose, and the Foresters of America.
He has shown a commendable interest in those things which have to do
with the welfare and progress of his community and is regarded as one of its
capable, progressive and enterprising citizens.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Pages 64-65. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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