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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
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I think that early on Hammel & Denker ran the United States Hotel on Main Street for Louis Mesmer...
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My notes have it that the partnership of Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker were lessors of the U.S. Hotel in 1874, and, ca. late 70s, owned the future site of the Wilcox Block at 2nd and Spring, which indeed they sold, via E.F. Spence, to Wilcox.
For Henry Hammel: ca. 1828-1834, born in Hesse; 1850, came to the U.S.; April 19, 1856, he and partner Marcus Flashner purchased the Bella Union; April 18, 1857, published (
Los Angeles Star): “Mr. H. Hammel having disposed of his interest in the Bella Union Hotel, and being about to leave this part of the State, [
those indebted are requested to pay up]”; Hammel evidently sold out said interest to J.B. Winston; December 31, 1859, officer of the new Teutonia-Concordia; 1860, present in L.A. as a cook at the Bella Union with savings of $2,000 and real estate valued at $4,000; ca. 1862-1863, managing (and residing at) the Bella Union Hotel, his co-manager being John King; January 3, 1863, published (
Los Angeles Star): daughter born on December 31, 1862, in L.A.; November 14, 1863, published (
Los Angeles Star): chosen as trial juror; April 23, 1864, published (
Los Angeles Star): on the Grand Jury; 1865, to Kern County; 1869, returned to L.A.; February 1, 1869, in partnership with Henry Bremerman, leased the U.S. Hotel from Louis Mesmer; 1870, present in L.A. as hotel keeper with savings of $2,000; then as above for Hammel & Denker; September 3, 1890, died, at which time the family residence was at 7th and Grand.