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ERNST MAXIMILIAN LOUIS TSCHIERSCHKY
ERNST MAXIMILIAN LOUIS
TSCHIERSCHKY, foreman of the Moore & Smith lumber-yard in Stockton, was
born in Prussia, October 3, 1836, a son of Charles and E. H. Tschierschky. The mother died young and the father but a
few years older, leaving two daughters, still living in Prussia in 1890, and
the subject of this sketch. The grandparents Tschierschky
outlived their son Charles and reached an advanced age.
E. M. L. Tschierschky
attended school to the age of fourteen, served as clerk in a store two years
and then went to sea, following a seafaring life until he was thirty-two. He
made his first voyage to America in 1857, on a vessel bound for New York from
Marseilles. In 1863 he was employed on the steamer Delaware, chartered by the
Government to carry supplies to various points, with headquarters at Port
Royal. In 1864 and in 1865 he was employed on the steamer Liberty engaged in
the New York and Havana trade, filling the position of quartermaster. In 1868
Mr. Tschierschky came to California, by the Panama
route, arriving in Stockton October 1, 1868. Early in 1869 he went to work for
the late W. M. Baggs in his lumber-yard,
and before the close of that year began the construction of a home on Pilgrim
street, which he has not ceased to improve from time to time ever since. In
1870 he went to work for his present employers, Moore & Smith, and was soon
afterward promoted to the position of foreman of their lumber-yard, a position
he still retains in 1890. He owns 480 acres in Dent and 240 in Elliott
Township, both worked by renters.
Mr. Tschierschky
was married in New York city, in 1868, to Miss Meta Gesina Carolina Beneker, born in Lehe by Hanover, Germany, May 7, 1850, a daughter of H. W. Beneker. Mr. and Mrs. Tschierschky
are the parents of ten children, nine alive at present. The record is: William
Theodore, born April 11, 1870; Laura Rebecca, December 3, 1871; Maria Carolina,
July 20, 1873; Louis Ernst Maximilian, July 21, 1875; Frederick Johan Heinrich,
June 4, 1878; Wilhelmina Henrietta, May 31, 1880; Meta Carolina, May 6,
1882; Maria Henrietta Augusta, February
26, 1884; Herbert Otto, February 18, 1886; Fredericka Carolina, February 9,
1888.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 482-483. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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