Sacramento County
Biographies
FRED.
BIEWENER
FRED. BIEWENER.--Among the active business men of Sacramento is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is a native of Hanover, Germany, born May 4, 1847, his parents being Henry August and Elizabeth (Grothaus) Biewener. He comes of a mercantile family, his father, though retired, being still the head of a large mercantile house at Hoyel. Mr. Biewener attended the public schools at his native place from six to fourteen years of age, and afterward was instructed by private tutors until he had received a liberal education. He then entered his father’s store as assistant, but in 1867 came to America, landing at New York, and thence proceeding via Nicaragua to California, landing at San Francisco, November 27, 1867. He came directly to Sacramento, and commenced the butcher’s trade with Heilbron Bros. After sixteen months they sold out, and during the ten months following he was with Reinhart & Dold. On the 3d of February, 1870, he embarked in business at the Fulton market, in company with Christopher Doscher. A year and five months later the latter sold out to H. Hageman. In 1881 this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Biewener has since carried on the business alone. He was married in this city to Miss Henrietta Neuhaus, a native of Aldenburg, Germany. They have five children, viz: Helena, Katie, August, Fred and Henry. Mr. Biewener became a member of the Sacramento Turn-Verein in 1884. He was first elected trustee, and in 1888 was chosen president of the organization, taking the office in January, 1889. He is a trustee of Sacramento Stamm, No. 124, I. O. R. M., and a member of Sacramento Grove, No. 6861, A. O. F. He is also an officer of the Chosen Friends, and is president of the Butcher’s Protective Union since January, 1889. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Biewener is a good representative of the younger and more pushing class of businessmen, and is a very popular man with a large circle of personal friends.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 734-735. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.