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Originally Posted by oldstuff
THE SPANISH BEAUTY
The woman known as the Spanish Beauty, Lena (also found as Erolina) Junge was born in December of 1868 in Los Angeles, the daughter of Adolph Junge and his wife Tomasa Boscio (or Coscio). Tomasa was born in California in about 1830. Adolph was born in Germany in about 1829. Adolph was a druggist in Los Angeles when the children were being born and one of his sons Ramon (called Ray in the article regarding Adolph, Jr) was later a druggist.
According to Harris Newmark’s book “Sixty Years in Southern California”, Adolf (also spelled Adolph) is mentioned: “In 1861, Adolph Junge arrived and established a drug-store in the Temple Block, his only competitor being Theodore Wollweber; and there he continued for nearly twenty years, one of his prescription books, now in the County Museum, evidencing his activity. For a while, F. J. Gieze, the well-known druggist for so many years on North Main Street, and an arrival of '74, clerked for Junge.”
Adolph appears in the 1870 Census when he is found living in Los Angeles and working as a druggist. The address listed for his drug store was at 99 Main Street. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, in their exhibit "Becoming Los Angeles" has an original prescription book belonging to Adolph Junge.
Adolph was married to Tomasa around 1866 or so ,and he died in April of 1879. His will was probated on May 5, 1879 and lists sons Adolph and Ramon as well as daughter Erolina. They were the only children listed but Adolph and Tomasa apparently had five children, although some may have been her children from a prior marriage or born to her and someone else after Adolph’s death.
They appear in the 1880 census with Tomasa listed as widowed and children Lena, Ramon (Ray), Charles. Fito and Rosa. Ramon was working as a druggist at that time, having probably taken over his father’s store.
The elder son, Adolf is not listed in that census with the others. He apparently still lived in Los Angeles at the time of his death as he is listed in a death index here in 1933 as Adolf J. Junge.
As for Lena, there are quite a few last names for her that can be found. In addition to her maiden name of Junge, she also went by Goodwin, Warren (apparently the father of Flora Warren) Burke (there is a marriage to Robert Burke in 1899), and also possibly Mendez and Potter. Since her father had apparently been of very good repute in the city, it is possible that her being much-married in the years after his death gave her a bad reputation, or worse than deserved.
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Very many thanks,
oldstuff! My mind was fixated on the spelling "Junger" in one of the articles, so I didn't even think of "Junge," which family I had some notes on (your info adds to what I had; and I didn't have any record of Erolina . . .
unless . . . see below).
For Tomasa Cosio: My notes have that she married one Antonio Journeaux in 1861; and that, when he abandoned her a few months later, she took up with Adolph Junge. I don't have that they married (maybe because she was still the wife of the absent Journeaux?). This on Journeaux from the interesting book
Negotiating Conquest, by Miroslava Chávez-Garcia, 2004.
My notes on the Junge family:
Junge, Adolfo Francisco 1871, born in L.A.
Junge, Adolfo Manuel 1877, born in L.A.
Junge, Adolph or Adolf; alias Young; ca. 1829, born in Germany; November 3, 1860, published (
Los Angeles Star): a “qualified druggist” hired by H.R. Myles; 1861, starting a drug store in the New Temple Block, store lasting nearly twenty years; 1861, living with Tomasa Cosio, with whom children until at least 1877; 1870, present in L.A. as a druggist with savings of $3,000; 1872, 99 Main St. and apothecary opposite U.S. Hotel Main St.; see also F.J. Gieze, Joseph Kurtz.
Junge, Carlos Francisco 1869, born in L.A.
Junge, Carlos Francisco 1873, born in L.A.
Junge, Ramon Antonio 1863, born in L.A.
Junge, Ramona E. 1867, born in L.A.
Much of the family info
also from
Negotiating Conquest. I suspect that Ramona E. above is our Erolina (Lena), and that your data on Erolina (Lena) getting herself born in December 1868 corrects the book's 1867.
As for my "see also" names: Your info already tells what I have on Gieze; but, as to Kurtz:
Kurtz, Joseph (Dr.) ca. 1841, born in Germany; February 3, 1868, arrived in L.A. on the encouragement of Adolf Junge; associated at times with Junge and Rudolphe Eichler in druggery; ca. 1869-1870, hosted at his office preliminary meetings concerning organization of the Los Angeles Turnverein; 1870, present in L.A. as a physician with savings of $500; October 25, 1871, coroner at the inquest concerning the Chinese Massacre; 1872, coroner, 74 Main St., office in the Lanfranco Bldg.; ca. 1877, practicing medicine in L.A. (fetched to attend to the wounded Fonck); June 22, 1924, died.
And I hear demands as to
Who was the "wounded Fonck"?. I hear, and obey:
Fonck, John Victor ca. 1827, born in Holland; 1870, present in L.A. as an upholsterer; 1872, 139 Main St; 1870, present in L.A.; “October 10, 1877, Victor Fonck was shot in the leg by C.M. Waller, keeper of the Land Company’s bath-house at Santa Monica. The latter claimed to be acting under instructions from — Parker, agent of the land company. At the time of the shooting, Fonck was erecting a private bath-house on the beach, in defiance of warnings not to. He died two days afterward from the effect of the wound” (
Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, p. 252). His wife was Henrietta, born in Germany circa 1834.
So what happened to C.M. Waller?: Waller was found guilty of involuntary homicide, and was sentenced January 25, 1878, to one year in the penitentiary.
Edit add: Tomasa Coscio or Cosio is a problem as being unrecorded as to birth. There
was a male Tomas a Cora Cosio, May 18, 1842, baptized at Mission San Gabriel; parents: Jose Maria Cosio and Magdalena Calderona. Jose Maria Cosio was one of the Hijar-Padres colonists arriving in California in 1834 on the
Morelos; it wouldn't be surprising if a family with a child Tomas also had a child Tomasa. Still, if Tomasa was born in California about 1830, that wouldn't quite fit this family . . . unless it was
Baja California she was born in. Hmmm.
Magdalena Calderona is likely Magdalena Candelaria Calderon, another Hijar-Padres colonist, and wife, in 1834, of Victoriano Vega . . . the latter known to me as being one of the memoirists in a recent book having the unlikely title
With My Own Eyes, by one Brent C. Dickerson, whoever that might be.
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