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Heinrich Dockweiler

American politician

Field	Value
name	Heinrich Dockweiler
image	Heinrich Dockweiler, 1887.jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Contwig, Kingdom of Bavaria
death_date
death_place	Los Angeles, California
office	Member of the Los Angeles Common Council for the 3rd ward
term_start	December 9, 1870
term_end	September 28, 1871
term_start1	June 8, 1871
term_end1	December 18, 1874
spouse
children	4, including Isidore

Heinrich "Henry" Dockweiler (1824 – April 12, 1887) was a patriarch of pioneering family in American Los Angeles, California as it was growing from the Mexican Pueblo de Los Ángeles era of Alta California.

Biography

Dockweiler was born in Contwig near Zweibrücken, in the Rheinkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria (now in Rhineland-Palatinate). He emigrated to the United States, landing in Brooklyn. He was known commonly after emigration as Henry Dockweiler.

California

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1852.

Dockweiler married Margaretha Sugg in La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles on the Los Angeles Plaza, on 13 October 1861. He and his wife had 4 sons: John Henry, Joseph, John, and Isidore.

He was opposed to slavery and secession, was one of the first 25 people in Los Angeles to support Abraham Lincoln. He was elected to serve as a member of the Los Angeles Common Council from 1870 to 1874.

Henry Dockweiler died in 1887. He was interred in the old Calvary Cemetery of Los Angeles, and later reinterred in the new Calvary Cemetery (New Calvary Catholic Cemetery) in East Los Angeles.

References

Cooper, Angus C. (O.F.M.). (1993). "Dockweiler - An Adventure Becomes a Saga: From Bavaria to California (1750-2000)".
Ellen A. Schneider Kay, June 1970,''The Varied Worlds of Isidore B. Dockweiler'', Dr. John Baur Studies In California, University of Southern California (USC).

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