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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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Liavid Binkleman is in Oakland, beingg unable to get across the bay. He i became alarmed for the safety of his . Wife and left for San Francisco. Tt lis helleved Mrs. Binkleman is now on jher wuy home, though no word has beech received from her. lO A LO LO Os ll Oa LO LO AOL OL LO hl hil ML MM . _ ny —_——_—_ ——_———— re 4/19/1906 David “Bink” Binkleman was in Oakland trying to get to San Francisco, and his wife, Mayme, was there after the great earthquake on 4/18/1906. 'San Francisco is gone', wrote Jack London in his first-hand account of the great 1906 earthquake that toppled San Francisco. Following the quake, nearly half the population was left homeless, and the resulting fires (which lasted for three days) destroyed nearly 30,000 buildings. He finally found Mayme. David “Bink” Binkleman returned home to run his mother’s business, the Binkleman Brewery, sometime in 1902. After his return to Grass Valley, he married the love of his life, Mayme Kelly, in 1903. He was later willed the Binkleman Brewery by its owner and his mother, Sophia Binkleman, in 1904. Even in the early 1900s, life was not easy for the Binklemans. Above, you see the article about Mayme being in San Francisco during the worst earthquake in San Francisco’s history. On the next page, you see they returned to Grass Valley a few days after Bink found Mayme. She was almost killed and averted robbery the night she returned. Fast forward a couple of years, and Mayme becomes pregnant with their one and only child. In a couple of pages, you see that she must have given a stillbirth, and the baby was buried the same day. About a year after this, she started having heart problems. In the article in the following pages, you will see that she finally succumbed to a rare heart disorder in May 1909. Bink never remarried. Bink’s mother, Sophia, died in 1915 at the age of 85. Bink would continue to run the Binkleman Brewery until Prohibition in 1919. He lived in the family home above the brewery on N. Auburn until he sold it in late 1941. He then moved to the Bret Harte Inn, Grass Valley, CA, and lived there until he died in 1958. He was the last of the male line of the Binkleman’s. 77