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WALDFOGEL, MARTIN. Is a native of Switzerland, and was born September 15, 1835. When about eighteen years of
age he went to France, where he spent about fifteen months, and then came to New York. After visiting New York,
Pennsylvania, and Indianapolis, he settled in St. Louis, where he remained about fifteen months. He then went to
New Orleans, and shipped for California. Crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he arrived at San Francisco in the spring
of 1855. Mr. Waldfogel went at once to Marysville, where he remained about four months; then went to the mines,
where he followed mining until the spring of 1857, when he came to Lake County and located in Long Valley, where
he resided about twelve years, and then settled on his present place, consisting of two hundred acres, located
about three miles from Upper Lake, on the road to Bartlett Springs. He married, in August, 1871, Miss Emma Hoffner,
who died in October, 1873. He married, secondly, June 13, 1877, Miss Caroline Gerr, a native of Prussia.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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