Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANK
MECKFESSEL
FRANK MECKFESSEL, of Sacramento, is a native of Germany, born ten miles from Bremen, Hanover, on the 8th day of December, 1838, his parents being Frederick and Gretchen Meckfessel. He was reared at his native place until he had finished his education, at the age of fourteen, and, his mother having died when he was only ten years, he came to the United States in 1852. He sailed from Bremen to New Orleans on the German vessel “Rebecca,” then proceeded to St. Louis, when he again commenced attendance at school, this time for something over a year. He then served an apprenticeship with Weston & Herrish, hatters, at the corner of Third street and Washington avenue. He remained with them until 1861, when he came out to California, via New York, which city he left in April, on the steamer “Champion.” Crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he resumed his sea voyage on the steamer “Golden Gate,” and landed at San Francisco April 26, 1861. He came at once to Sacramento and has resided here ever since. Since 1869 he has been engaged in trucking and by fair and honest dealing and prompt attention to the calls of business, he has built up a large and permanent trade, and a solid and lasting reputation. Mr. Meckfessel was married in this city on the 25th of January, 1865, to Miss Eliphalet Skelton, a native of England. Mr. And Mrs. Meckfessel have reared one son —Frank, Jr., a young man of much promise, now engaged with Huntington, Hopkins & Co., as stenographer. Mr. Meckfessel is a member of Schiller Lodge, No. 105, I. O. O. F.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 723-724. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.