Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES
SCHREINER.
CHARLES SCHREINER was born in Baden, Germany, in 1826, of Michael and Katrina (Hummel) Schreiner. The parents, with Charles and two other sons, came to America in 1849. Their son George had preceded them in 1845, and a son and daughter remained in Germany. The family settled on a farm in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. George settled in Boston, but after some years came to Wisconsin, and went into the boot and shoe business at Fort Atkinson. Martin, who came with the others in 1849, afterward became a contractor and builder in Milwaukee, and was killed by a fall from a building. The mother died in 1874, aged about seventy-five, and the father in 1879, aged eighty-five. The subject of this sketch was in the army of the Grand Duke of Baden from 1846 to 1849, and fought on the side of Prussia in the Schleswig-Holstein war; but in 1849 Baden was opposed to Prussia. He came to California in 1852, and went to mining on the Middle Yuba for the three months, doing fairly well, but losing in later ventures all he had made. He then went to Marysville and worked on a steamer, which was blown up three months later, while he was fortunately on shore through sickness. After getting well he came to the place he now owns, seven miles south of Sacramento, on the Freeport road, and went to work keeping cattle for the owner, a Mr. Blanchard, and in 1854 he bought the ranch comprising 160 acres. He also owns 320 acres near Elk Grove. He raises wheat and barley, and keeps a dairy of about thirty cows at the home place. In 1860 Mr. Schreiner was married in Sacramento to Miss Christina Klenk, a native of Wirtemberg, who died in August, 1887, aged forty-eight, and was buried in Sacramento. Three children survive her: Elizabeth, Charles, Jr., and Henry. Miss Schreiner has a good district-school education; and Charles was graduated from the Sacramento Business College. Henry has taken a course in the California Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, receiving his diploma June 8, 1886.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 610-611. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.