Andrew Hoeppner

One article in my series Sonoma County, California

Andrew Hoeppner aka Andreas Hoeppener

http://books.google.com/books?id=Yt1dmLKBfXwC&q=hoeppener&dq=hoeppener&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w5zaT9qCF6Pm2gXzt6GJBg&ved=0CL0BEOsBMBU

"A German-Balt from Estonia", a bookkeeper for the Russian-American Company

http://books.google.com/books?id=cnD9c4MpaLUC&lpg=PA189&dq=hoppener%20%20vallejo&pg=PA189#v=onepage&q=hoppener%20%20vallejo&f=true

Married a half-breed wife

Pioneer in Sonoma County, California

http://books.google.com/books?id=ibgUAAAAYAAJ&dq=andrew%20hoeppner&pg=PA453

Pioneer of 1844

http://books.google.com/books?id=HCfsLzefuVIC&q=andrew+hoeppner&dq=andrew+hoeppner&hl=en&ei=ElrZT_iUFKTi2QX5zoW9Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=19&ved=0CLgBEOsBMBI

Arrived at Vallejo's house in March 1846

http://books.google.com/books?id=Nne4L9h27RsC&lpg=PA558&dq=andrew%20hoeppner&pg=PA558#v=onepage&q=andrew%20hoeppner&f=true

Andrew Hoeppner was a German who had lived at Sitka, Russian America (Alaska) for a number of years. He signed a contract with Vallejo to provide piano lessons to the entire family for five years in exchange for a large concession of land from Vallejo's Agua Caliente tract

Vallejo agreed to give him 1000 acres of land, but apparently Hoeppner never completed his end of the bargain, and so the land was never fully vested in him. The situation produced a couple court cases which went to the California Supreme Court.

http://books.google.com/books?id=cnD9c4MpaLUC&lpg=PA189&dq=hoppener%20%20vallejo&pg=PA189#v=onepage&q=hoppener%20%20vallejo&f=true

defeated Vioget in an eating contest

http://books.google.com/books?id=Zco1AAAAIAAJ&dq=andrew%20hoeppner&pg=PA667#v=onepage&q=andrew%20hoeppner&f=true

Andrew Hoeppner's medical springs near Sonoma (a mile away) advertised in San Francisco papers from May 1847

http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590622.2.14&cl=search&srpos=2&e=-------en-Logical-20--1-byDA--IN-hoeppner----#

22 Jun 1859 "As early as 1847, a Russian gentleman named Hoeppner, then residing in Sonoma, gave notice that he had opened a house of entertainment, with suitable bathing rooms, at the Warm Springs, three miles from the place we have named and to which he gave the name of 'Annenthal.' We perceive in a recent advertisement of the Union Hotel at Sonoma the announcement that carriages are always in waiting to convey its guests to the Agua Caliente or Warm Springs, 'which are in the immediate vicinity.' We presume this to be Hoeppner's Annenthal."

http://books.google.com/books?id=G3I8AAAAIAAJ&q=andrew+hoeppner&dq=andrew+hoeppner&hl=en&ei=ElrZT_iUFKTi2QX5zoW9Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=26&ved=0CNoBEOsBMBk

June 1847 he was on a jury in Sonoma

http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=CS18480101.2.8.1&cl=search&srpos=153&e=-------en-Logical-20--141-byDA--IN-sonoma----#

Agent at Sonoma for the weekly Sloop Stockton, commanded by Briggs

http://books.google.com/books?id=kL0UAAAAYAAJ&dq=andrew%20hoeppner&pg=PA668#v=onepage&q=andrew%20hoeppner&f=true

28 Oct 1848 he was appointed second alcalde of Sonoma

http://books.google.com/books?id=9aQWAQAAIAAJ&dq=andrew%20hoeppner&pg=PA226#v=onepage&q=andrew%20hoeppner&f=true

Had a San Francisco lot mortgaged to him in 1849

http://books.google.com/books?id=DxRx06NyD0oC&lpg=PA123&dq=andrew%20hoeppner&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q=andrew%20hoeppner&f=true

March 1849, sold 800 acres he owned in Sonoma, to San Francisco Alcalde Leavenworth

http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=DAC18540311.2.21&srpos=1&e=-------en-Logical-20--1-byDA--IN-hoeppner----#

11 Mar 1854 he "disappeared several years ago, and Mrs Hoeppener is, so far as I know, the only relic of the Russian Colony at Bodega. She has tasted deeply of misfortune since her husband's reverse of fortune and desertion..."

http://books.google.com/books?id=cnD9c4MpaLUC&lpg=PA189&dq=hoppener%20%20vallejo&pg=PA189#v=onepage&q=hoppener%20%20vallejo&f=true

Left his wife and went to Honduras and Chile "where he is said to have died about 1855"