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Lost Grass Valley Gold Rush History of the Wilhelm & Binkleman Pioneer Families by Waldo C.F. Potter (2024) (374 pages)
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Tear, built high and approached by a ladder. 1 can still see Uncle
Bink in high rubber boots hosing down the brick floor. The edifice
was known as Binkleman's brewery, Grossvater having bought out his
partner.
The living quarters were in the rear of the building and above
the brewery. It was built on a side hill and the only room on the ground .
floor was the kitchen. A narrow, steep enclosed stairway led to the
upstairs living quarters -the dining living room and three bedrooms.
As a little girl I remember Bdeping in my great aunt Jule's big feather
bed -a memorable experience. The parlor with its horsehair furniture
was always closed, open only for funerals. A big porch looked over
the garden.
Grossvater was a happy congenial fellow with red hair. He was
lavish with gifts, especially for the staidontideen: of which my mother
was one. Grossmutter was a stern, unaffectionate woman. She wore
her hair pulled back tightly with a single bun on the back of her head.
There were thirteen Binkleman children in all. One story I've
always remembered was that the parents went to the cemetery to bury
one child who had died of diphtheria and came home to find two others
dead.from the same dread disease. One of the girls went to Chinatown
on Chinese New Year and someone threw a firecracker at her and it caught
her dress on fire. She ran howe but burned to death. Most of the other
children, with the exception of my grandmother were relatively long
lived. Uncle Bink was the youngest in the family and my mother's uncle,
although only a few years older.
I was eight when my great-grandmother died in 1915. Uncle Bink
continued to run the brewery until Prohibition forced him to close.
There were no male heirs in the family so the name Binkleman survives
only in the historic records of the pioneers of Grass Valley.
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