Sacramento County
Biographies
HENRY SCHAEFER
HENRY SCHAEFER.—Business enterprise and
progressiveness find manifest expression in the career of Henry Schaefer, the
successful proprietor of the Vienna Bakery. He grew up in his native county
of Germany practically self-trained
and has been self-reliant and able to do for himself since his fourteenth
year. His birth occurred in Germany,
Januar7 27, 1874, a son of August and Philipena
Schaefer, and both parents were deceased when Henry was a lad of fourteen
years. Previous to coming to the United States, he had spent three years
learning the baker’s trade in Germany; and when he was left an orphan he came
to the United States and direct to Nevada, where he lived with an aunt for
three years; then he removed to San Francisco, where he worked for four years
in a bakery, receiving five dollars a week for his services. His uncle in
Nevada having died, he returned to Nevada and took charge of his aunt’s ranch,
which he operated for four years; during this time he had saved some money and
returning to San Francisco, he went to work in a bakery for a year in order to
become more proficient at the business, then removed to Santa Rosa and bought a
bakery business which he held for only ten weeks and sold to good
advantage. He next purchased business in Woodland
which he operated for four years, when he sold it and removed to Sacramento. On
September 15, 1908, he purchased the Vienna Bakery and Restaurant, which he has
built up to the largest business in this line in the
city.
The
first marriage of Mr. Schaefer occurred in Woodland on
March 4, 1909, and united him with Miss Lucy Dole, a native daughter of California;
she died October 4, 1913. Subsequently, on December 28, 1920, Mr. Schaefer
was married to Miss Erma Wingard, a native daughter of
Sacramento, and they are the
parents of one daughter, Carolyn. Mr. Schaefer is a Republican in
politics, and fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons and Elks of
Sacramento, and locally gives his support to the Chamber of Commerce and the
Retail Merchants’ Association.
Transcribed 8-20-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 997. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.