Douglas County
Henry F. Dangberg, Sr.
Biography
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Nevada Genealogy Trails Douglas County Henry F. Dangberg, Sr. Biography |
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HENRY FRED DANGBERG. SR., principal member and founder of the well known firm of H. F. Dangberg Land and Live Stock Company, in Gardnerville, Douglas county, Nevada, has had a characteristic western career, and his life history is best told in the successive enterprises to which he has devoted his energies from the time of boyhood. After coming to America he engaged in hard manual labor for many years; he came to Nevada in the early days, and from mining turned his attention to the stock business. in which he has progressed, oftentimes by leaps and bounds, until he is now one of the largest producers in the state, as well as one of its most honored and esteemed business men and public-spirited citizens.
He was born in Westphalia. Germany, September 16, 1830, being a son of William and Katrina (Duckweiler) Dangberg, the former also a native of Westphalia and a farmer by occupation. Henry Dangberg attended school in his native- land, and at the age of eighteen, in 1848, came to the United States, where his first work was in rafting logs on the Mississippi, that rough yet care-free life which Mark Twain has so interestingly described and left as a picture of past scenes never to be revived in real life. While in the old country he had worked in a flour mill, and while stopping in St. Louis secured employment in a mill, where he worked for a year. He was then on a farm in Illinois for three years, but in 1853 left the middle west and set out for the goal of his future endeavors and successes. He worked his way across the plains by driving two hundred head of stock, and landed in Dayton, Nevada, October 11, 1853. On the following day he went to the mines in Virginia City, and was engaged in mining until 1857. He made permanent location in Carson valley in that-year, and that has been the scene of his activities ever since. He started in stock-raising, which industry he has built up from small beginnings. The H. F. Dangberg Land and Live Stock Company was incorporated in 1902. and it now controls twenty thousand acres of fine land and is one of the largest stock-raising concerns in the state.
Mr. Dangberg was three times a member of the state lower house and twice represented Douglas county in the state senate. He is an independent in politics, and is a member of the Lutheran church. He married Miss Margaret G. Ferris, a native of Illinois, and they had the following children: Henry F. Jr.,; Albert, born March 22, 1868, died March 20, 1870: John B., born January 10, 1871; Eva K., born August 19, 1873; George F., born July 20, 1875; and Clarence O., born March 30, 1879.
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