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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 481 barrels, etc. On the second floor are the malt kiln, the cleaning machine, the malt-grinding machine, and mash machine and tank, the barley-soaking tank and a space for storing malt; and on the third floor are the cooling vats and apparatus and condensing tanks. The market for the product of this brewery is in Vallejo, Solano, Sonoma, Napa and Contra Costa counties. Mr. Dininger was born in the city of Erlangen, Bavaria, where he learned the art of brewing. It is from that city and the neighboring city of Kulmbach that the heavy beera known in this country as the Kulmbacher are imported. After the completion of his school career Mr.. Dininger served an apprenticeship as b:ewer in Heliger’s establishment in Erlangen, and he there Jearned to make that celebrated becr. Next he worked a year and a half in Berlin, in the Kunphmeyer Brewery. He came to California in 1856, direct from Germany by the Panama route, and after three months spent in San Francisco breweries he went to Los Angeles, where he contracted to make beer fur Mr. Mason at the Columbus Brewery, at a certain price per brew, and remained there about a year. Understanding by this time the ways and opportunities of the country, he decided to start a brewery for himself, and went to Long’s Bar in Yuba County, a large mining camp at that time, started a brewery and conducted it to the year 1864. In 1858 he purchased 300 acres of land, which he also managed as a ranch, raising his own barley, besides some live-stock. The brewery was about five miles below Smartsville, and the ranch about nine miles below. In 1864 the high water overflowed his land and covered it with “slickins.” He therefore sold out his ranch and had to abandon his brewery. He next started a brewing establishment at Meadow Lake, Nevada County, near the summit of the Sierras, at that time a lively mining camp, and he continaed there until 1869, running at the same time a hotel, which he purchased at $1,000, its building having cost over $40,000! On a1 account of a rare peculiarity in the nature of the gold-bearing quartz, preventing its successful reduction, the mining there was discontinued, the town went down and Mr Dininger had to abandon both his brewery and hotel, as well as a quartz mill in which he was interested. He came then to Vallejo, which was on a boom at that time, and established his present brewery. For the last fifteen years he has had a good trade. He still has great faith in the future of Vallejo, and believes that all the Southern Pacific trains crossing the continent will yet pass near his property. He is a member of the San Pablo Lodge, No. 43, I. O. O. F., of Vallejo; he has be:n City Trustee for two terms, and is now a memer of the Board of School Trustees. He was married in 1858, to Miss Madelina Young. a native ot Baden, Germany, and they have nine children living: the son, Jacob bas now a half interest in the brewery; the daughters are Josephine, Louisa, Daisy, Mamie, Madelina, Maggie, Rosie and Emma. AMES BROWNLIE, one of the prominent citizens and business men of Vallejo, has been a resident of that place ever since 1858. Born at Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland, August 15, 1836, he learned there the trade of carpenter and joiner, exhibiting in his work the thorough traits of the Scotch character. After spending about two years at his trade in the Iumber districts of the north of Scotland, he then, at the age of twenty-two years, riamely, in 1858, emigrated to California in company with his brother, John Brownlie, who had come six years previously and was established in buriness at Vallejo, and thus he was at once thoroughly posted in the peculiarities of his newly adopted country. They came by way of New York and Panama, landing in San Francisco June 1, 1858, and in Vallejo the same day. After working a short time at his trade in this place, he went to the mines in Humboldt County, where he met