MICHEL REISSINGER

Prominent among the wide-awake, hustling business men of Yuba and Sutter Counties is the progressive Michel Reissinger, president and manager of the Star Ice Cream & Butter Company of Marysville, an establishment of which both town and county may well be proud.  A native of France, Mr. Reissinger was born at Balbron, Alsace, on June 5, 1860, the son of Conrad and Salome (Bodemer) Reissinger, worthy parents who are now resting from their earthly labors.  They did their duty, in their day and by their generation, and were held in high esteem by all who knew them.

Educated in the excellent schools of his home town, Michel Reissinger studied and became proficient in French, and later in German.  He grew up in that long-established country, and only when he was twenty-three years of age did he break away from his Gallic fatherland and cross the Atlantic Ocean to America.  He continued westward until he reached Monroe County, Ill., where he spent half a year.  Coming on then to California, he settled for a while at Petaluma, and there, during eighteen months, learned the brewer’s trade.  Removing to San Francisco, he took up malting, and for three years applied himself to that; and then, for six and a half years he was proprietor of the French liquor store on Fifth Street, between Folsom and Harrison, in San Francisco.  In 1896, in partnership with Max Hoefle, he bought the California Brewery, in Marysville.  In 1898 he bought his partner out, and thereafter he conducted the plant alone until the Eighteenth Amendment came into effect, when he sold the property to the Ellamoore Candy Company, retaining an interest in the new company and for two years acting as its treasurer and director.  They remodeled the plant for the manufacture of ice cream and continued the business under the same name until February 1, 1923, when it was changed to the Star Ice Cream & Butter Company, in which Mr. Reissinger still retains his interest and of which he is now president and manager.  They manufacture ice cream, butter and soft drinks, the plant being fully equipped with the most modern machinery for turning out their excellent line of goods, which are shipped up and down the Sacramento Valley.  Mr. Reissinger is also interested in horticulture and viticulture, and owns a ranch of forty-seven acres in District No. 10, three miles north of Marysville, thirty-three acres of which is in bearing vineyard and the balance in prunes, Mr. Reissinger having made all the improvements on the property.

In San Francisco, in 1893, Michel Reissinger and Miss Bertha Schroen, of Columbia, Ill., were married.  She is a daughter of Frederick and Dorothea (Mund) Schroen, both natives of Nordhausen, Germany, who came to the United States when very young and grew up in Monroe County, Ill., where their parents were pioneers.  Mr. Schroen enlisted in the United States Army and served through the Mexican War.  He became a successful contractor and builder in Columbia, Monroe County, and continued there until his death, in 1893, at the age of seventy-five years; his widow survived him and spent her last years with Mr. and Mrs. Reissinger, in California, her death occurring in 1914.  Mr. and Mrs. Reissinger’s happy domestic life has been blessed in the birth of three children: Bernice was educated at Cogswell Polytechnic in San Francisco, and now assists her mother in presiding capably over the Reissinger home; Manilla was educated at the Jenkins School of Music in Oakland and is now Mrs. Coates of Marysville; and Dorothy studied at Barnard’s Kindergarten School at Berkeley and is now engaged in teaching in the Kindergarten at Marysville.