Mangels Family Contributes to Suisun Val...

Three generations in the Mangels Family: Bompa, Louis Mangels, and Uncle Claus. Louis Mangels arrived in New York City in 1866, with his parents. At 14 years of age, he had just emigrated from Germany and immediately left for the West Coast, by way of Panama. There was a distant connection to the Spreckles, another German family that was already experiencing financial success in San ...

The Earliest History of Grape Growing in...

[Image courtesy of Gary Mangels] Mae Fisher Purcell wrote for the Eighteenth Anniversary Edition And All County Chamber of Commerce Atlas of Solano County, Information-Section 4-1935, in a story entitled, “Claus Mangels Renowned Solano Winery and Notable Estate is Beauty Spot of Suisun Valley: When Omar Khayyam, poet-tentmaker, wrote in his immortal Rubalyat the lines…...