Sierra County
Biographies
C. A. Heringlake
He was born in Westphalia, Germany, July 3, 1827. When fourteen years old he began to learn the trade of baker and confectioner, at which he worked until he came to the United States in 1855. After his arrival in this country he spent three years at his trade in Dayton, Ohio. Part of the years 1858-59 he spent in Indiana, and from 1859 to 1861 in Illinois. At that time he came to California, worked one year at his trade in San Francisco, coming to Downieville in the spring of 1862. Here he ran a bakery for a year; then in company with A. C. Busch, opened a hotel. In 1865 he bought an interest in the Gold Bluff Mining Company, and worked with it for a year, when, with A. C. Busch, he bought the Sierra City ranch. They kept the hotel till 1872. At that time they opened a store, which they are now running.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 490
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
Dr. Alemby Jump
was born April 10, 1821, on the bank of the Ohio river in Belmont county, Ohio, where his parents resided on a farm. His father removed to Richland county in the fall of that year, where the doctor was raised, attending school during the winter months. At the age of twenty he went to a school at Norwalk, Ohio, under the direction of Dr. Thompson, a Methodist clergyman. Here he taught school during the winter months, and also assisted on his father’s farm. He commenced the study of medicine in May, 1846, in the office of Dr. Bushnell, at Mansfield, Ohio, and graduated February 21, 1849, from the medical department of the Western Reserve college at Cleveland. He then began practicing at Bryan, Williams county, Ohio; but on the twenty-third of April, 1850 started across the plains to California, arriving in October, and began mining at Logtown, El Dorado county. He was one of the party who discovered the Eureka mine in Plumas county, in the spring of 1851, and gave the name to the company. He remained at the mine until October, 1852, and then went to Plum valley, Sierra county, where he spent the winter. July 18, 1853, he bought the office of Dr. D. P. Durst at St. Louis, and practiced medicine there eleven years, being burnt out three times during this period. He removed to Downieville October 7, 1864, and took charge of the Sierra county hospital, to which he had been appointed by the board of supervisors. With the exception of five years, when Dr. Chase was county physician, he has held this position ever since. He was elected coroner in 1865, and served six years. In 1873 he was re-elected, and held the office until March, 1880. Dr. Jump was married October 20, 1863 at St. Louis, to Miss Mary E. McCrory of Pennsylvania. They have one son, Robert L., born September 1, 1864, now a student at Berkeley. The doctor is interested in a hydraulic mine at American hill, and several others, having spent $30,000 in mining without drawing a dividend. He enjoys a large practice in Downieville and the surrounding country.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 491
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
F. L. Fischer
was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1849. When fourteen years old he worked in a brewery, and learned the trade at which he worked until 1869. In 1870, upon the breaking out of the Franco-Prussian war, he went into the army, where he served until 1874, when he was discharged, and emigrated directly to California. He located at Sierra City, worked one year there in the mines, and then went to Downieville. Here he was employed five years in the brewery. In October, 1881, he purchased an interest in the Sierra Brewery, which he owns at present, in company with William Junkert. Mr. Fischer was married in 1877 to Mrs. H. Fischer of Sierra City.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 488
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004