Heiken Family History: Last Name Origin & Meaning

04/05/2008

Death Ends Long Life
YUBA CITY (Sutter Co.), September 29 - Henry Bantas HEIKEN, aged 82, a
highly respected rancher, died yesterday afternoon at his home near Tudor.
He was born in Hanover, Germany, February 8, 1824, and came to the United
States in 1851. He arrived in California in 1854. Besides his wife, he
leaves three sons - Hobart W., John B. and Frederick HEIKEN - and one
daughter, Mrs. Josephine M. MINDEN. He was a member of Enterprise Lodge, No.
70, F. and A.M., and the funeral services will be conducted by that order at
1:30 to-morrow afternoon. The interment will be made in the Yuba City
Cemetery.

Henry died September 28, 1906. His surviving wife is Margaret(Egan) Heiken.

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FRED H. HEIKEN

An efficient, trustworthy public official who enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens, is Fred H. Heiken, the treasurer and tax collector of Yuba County [Sutter County]. He was born on a farm in Sutter County, on August 16, 1890. His father, Henry B. Heiken, came to California in 1854, while his mother, who was Margaret Egan before her marriage, reached the Coast as a young girl; and in Sutter County they were married. Prior to his coming to California, Mr. Heiken had been in New Orleans, and had gone through the cholera plague. After coming to California, he spent some years transporting freight to and from the mines, and then spent the remainder of his life in farming. He homesteaded land in Sutter County, and part of what he homesteaded is still held by the family. He died in 1903 and the following year Mrs. Heiken breathed her last.

Fred Heiken obtained his early training in the public schools. He remained on the home ranch until he was seventeen years of age, when he added to his schooling by attendance at a business college. He then worked for a while, and afterwards went back to the college, and took a postgraduate course. Next he entered the employ of the Natomas Company, and was with them, in their accounting department, for five years. In the meantime, also, he was in business for himself in Folsom. For another five years he engaged in general merchandise trade at Tudor, in Sutter County; and on selling out, he was appointed to serve as county treasurer and tax collector for the unexpired term of C. D. O’Banion, deceased, being appointed on January 3, 1922, and in the fall of 1922 he was elected to the same office for a four-year term. Mr. Heiken is the owner of a peach orchard, which he developed from a grain-field. Interested in civic improvement, he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

In Berkeley, on August 20, 1922, Mr. Heiken was married to Miss Ora F. Ferguson, a native daughter of Sacramento County; and they have two sons, Robert and Henry. He is a member of Enterprise Lodge No. 70, F. & A.M., Yuba City, and also of Marysville Lodge No. 783, B.P.O.E. He belongs to the Sutter Gun Club, is fond of hunting and fishing, and of the pleasures of out-of-door life, and is one of the enthusiasts for Yuba City and Sutter County, claiming for both many attractions and advantages not to be found elsewhere. His influence in his community makes for the general good.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924

p 860

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JOHN B. HEIKEN

Reared to farm life on his father’s ranch of 400 acres, where he was born, John B. Heiken has spent his entire lifetime in agricultural pursuits. His father, Henry B. Heiken, a venerable and highly respected farmer, now deceased, was born in Hanover, Germany, February 8, 1824, and was there reared and educated. Left fatherless at the age of eight years, Henry B. Heiken began life for himself at an early age, for many years working as a wage-earner on a farm. Coming to the United States in 1851, he crossed the Atlantic in a sailing vessel, being ten weeks on the ocean, and landed in New Orleans. Proceeding directly to the Red River district, in Texas, he remained there a short time and then went to St. Louis, Mo., where he worked as a farmer and teamster for three years. Taking the Nicaragua route for California in 1854, he came to San Francisco and spent a brief time there, after which he went to the mines and worked by the day for a while. Not liking this, however, he next went to Sacramento, and from there to Marysville, where he secured a position with a farmer, in whose employ he continued for fourteen months. The following two years, he worked at ranching and hay-pressing; and with the money thus earned he purchased a six-mule team, and for three years thereafter was engaged in freighting to the mines.

Giving up teaming, in 1860, Henry B. Heiken located on government land in Sutter County, but in the course of four or five years had to give it up. He subsequently purchased a squatter’s claim to the present homestead, and there engaged in general farming and stock-raising. Later he added to his original purchase, increasing his acreage to 400 acres. He made substantial improvements on his farm, which became one of the best in its appointments of any in this part of the valley, being a credit to his industry, skill and sound judgment.

On December 10, 1867. Henry B. Heiken was married to Miss Margaret Egan, who was born and reared in Queens County, Ireland, coming from there to Sutter County with her father when about seventeen years old. Of the nine children born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Heiken, four are living, namely: Hobart W.; John B., the subject of this sketch; Josephine M.; and Frederic. Henry B. Heiken was a Republican in politics, and fraternally he was identified with Enterprise Lodge, No. 70, F. & A. M., of Yuba City, to which his two older sons also belong.

John B. Heiken was always associated with his father in ranching operations, and he is now counted as among the substantial and prosperous citizens of his locality. In 1920 Mr. Heiken was elected supervisor of the fourth supervisorial district of Sutter County; and he is now serving as chairman of the board. In national politics he is a decided Republican.

Mr. Heiken was married in Yuba City to Miss Inga Hess, who was born in Santa Rosa, and whose parents were well and favorably known pioneers of Sonoma County.

(History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924-pg 602)

Today his descendants live in the Sacramento and Yuba City/Marysville areas.

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