Sacramento County
Biographies
LEONHART ROPCKE
LEONHART ROPCKE.--Among those of
foreign birth who have profited by the excellent opportunities for advancement
presented in Sacramento County
is Leonhart Ropcke, who was
born in 1869, in Germany,
the son of William and Doris Ropcke. He was educated in the schools of his native
country, and learned to be a cook. After
serving his time in the German Army, he came to the United
States at the age of twenty-one, and was
employed on the government transports as a cook. He left the service of his adopted country,
and settled in Reno, where he has
resided for ten years and engaged in hotel work. In 1912 he came to Sacramento
and conducted the hotel in the Harvey House.
Selling out, he ran the Graser Hotel in
Williams two years. In 1917, he
established the firm of the Golden West Pickle Works, and enjoys a most
lucrative wholesale business in and about Sacramento.
In
1906, at Reno, Nev., Leonhart Ropcke was united in
marriage with Miss Mary Church, who was born in Ireland. She passed away in 1915. He was married a second time, in Sacramento,
to Miss Annie Mosselwhite, of England,
in 1917. Politically, Mr. Ropcke adheres to the Republican party;
fraternally he is a Moose; and he is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce. He is very fond of
horses and is deeply interested in the advancement and future of the community.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 1001. Historic Record
Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.