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HENRY C. THIESSEN, JR.
Henry C. Thiessen, Jr., was born in Lutgen, Dortmund, Westphalia, Germany, September 1, 1887, a
son of Henry and Fredericka (Sprienkemper) Thiessen, both natives of Germany, whose sketch appears
elsewhere in this work. Henry C. is the
eldest son of their family of twelve children.
Henry C. received a public school
education in his native country and was fifteen years old when his parents
removed to Taylorville, Illinois, where he worked in the coal mines. In 1904 the family came to California, and he
has followed farming, being interested with his father in a ranch of 320 acres
located north of Woodbridge, as well as 188 acres in the Brack tract.
The marriage of Mr. Thiessen
occurred in Oakland on May 26, 1921, which united him with Miss Ethel Tanner,
born at Sutter Creek, California, a daughter of Charles and Anna (Cosgrove)
Tanner, the former a native of McHenry County, Illinois, and the latter of
Angels Camp, California. Her father, a
veteran of the Civil War, after which he came to California, was a teamster in
hauling provisions from Angels Camp, Ione and Jackson to the mines. Mrs. Thiessen was reared and educated in
Sutter Creek and then taught school there; she also taught in Tulare County
schools, and was teaching her second term at the Ray district school in north
San Joaquin County when she was married to Mr. Thiessen. Mr. Thiessen has just completed a fine
residence on his ranch, where they make their home. In politics he is a Republican. Mrs. Thiessen is a member of the Rebekahs, in
which she is a past noble grand, and is a member and past president of the
Native Daughters of the Golden West.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1626. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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