San Joaquin County
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AUGUST MUENTER
AUGUST MUENTER, a lawyer of
Stockton, was born at Carolinensiel, Hanover,
Germany, March 8, 1835, a son of William and Frederika
Wilhelmina (Maurer) Muenter. The father came to
California in 1849, and sent for his family, consisting of his wife, two daughters
and the subject of this sketch, but died in San Francisco, October 30, 1850, at
the age of forty-five. The family left home for California a few days before
his death, and were five and one-half months on the voyage, per brig Reform,
from Bremen, around Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco, April 5, 1851. The
mother died in Stockton on January 1, 1880, aged seventy-five years.
The subject of this sketch came to Stockton in May, 1851, and was engaged in mercantile life until the age of thirty-four. He was elected County Clerk in 1869 for one term of two years, and had read law as opportunity offered for some time previously, as well as during and after his term of office, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1874. He was in partnership with Judge Baldwin from March, 1875, to March, 1877, under the style of Baldwin & Muenter, and with J. C. Campbell from 1881 to 1883, as Campbell & Muenter. At all other times since his admission to the bar he has practiced alone.
He was married in Stockton in 1861 to his
cousin, Miss Antoinette Maurer, a daughter of Henry and Frederika
(Hildenbrock) Maurer, who came to America in old age
and settled in Iowa, where they died, the father aged seventy-six and the mother seventy-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Muenter are the parents of two children: August E., born
December 17, 1866, was graduated from the law department of the University of
Michigan, in Ann Arbor, June 28, 1888, and was admitted to practice as an
attorney at law by the Supreme County of California, September 1, 1888. Being
the owner of a large tract of land, and his health requiring out-door exercise,
he has abandoned the profession of law, and will devote himself to farming, his
lands. The second child of Mr. and Mrs. Muenter is
Antoinette B., born November 30, 1877, and is attending the public schools in
Stockton. On February 26, 1889, at Stockton, Mr. and Mrs. Muenter
lost their oldest son, Henry L., being at the time of his death nearly
twenty-seven years old. Henry L. had studied medicine in San Francisco, Philadelphia,
New York, Berlin, Munich and Vienna; graduated as an M.D. at the medical
department of the University of California, in November, 1882, and from
Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, in March, 1884; and in March, 1887,
after a thorough competitive examination, and upon his diploma from the
University of California, was selected and appointed as one of the volunteer
physicians in the university clinic for women at Munich, Germany, which
position he seems to have honorably and satisfactorily, according to the
testimonials given him by the director of the clinic. At the time of his death
he was engaged in the practice of his profession at Stockton.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 386-389. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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