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CHRISTIAN NEUMILLER
Prominent among the sturdy,
progressive pioneers of Stockton who will long be pleasantly and gratefully
remembered as the representatives of a public-spirited, widely-respected family
in the front rank of Californian settlers, was the late Christian Neumiller,
who died at his home in Stockton on November 3, 1919. He was born at Wolfersheim,
Canton Zweibruecken, in Rhenish
Bavaria, Germany, on February 16, 1835, and when twenty years of age came to
the United States and served an apprenticeship to the baker’s trade. When a full-fledged journeyman, he worked as
a baker in Baltimore, Maryland, Alexandria, Virginia, and Washington, D. C.,
and in 1858 migrated westward to California, via the Isthmus of Panama. He arrived in San Francisco on October 18,
1858, and after six days in the Bay City moved inland to Stockton where, on New
Year’s Day, 1859, he entered the employ of the State of California, becoming
chief baker in the bakery department of the State Hospital at Stockton. From the beginning he gave satisfaction to
everybody; and he continued to discharge that responsibility, at times not
altogether light, until September 1, 1908, when he retired, rounding out an
enviable record, especially for almost continuous service, for he was with the
State Hospital all the time, with the exception of about five years, or from
1867 to 1872, when he was engaged in farming in San Joaquin County. On his retirement, therefore, he completed
about forty years of honorable service in the state, during which time Stockton
continued to be his home; excepting, of course, the period when he was on the
farm, near Collegeville, about ten miles from Stockton.
In June, 1865, Mr. Neumiller was
married to Miss Marie Mey of Sufflenheim,
Alsace, then a part of France, who had come to the United States twelve years
before and had reached California for the first time in 1863. She died at Stockton on August 18, 1905,
esteemed and beloved by all who knew her, the revered mother of two daughters
and two sons: Mrs. Mary E. Minta, widow of the late Judge Wesley Minta,
of Stockton; Miss Emma C. Neumiller; William C. Neumiller, treasurer and tax
collector of San Joaquin County, and Charles L. Neumiller, a member of the law
firm of Neumiller & Ditz, elsewhere written of in this work. These worthy representatives of one of the
worthiest pioneer families hereabout continue to reside at Stockton, Charles L.
Neumiller and the two daughters making their home at the old Neumiller homestead,
and William C. Neumiller maintaining his own home with his family.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
888. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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