{geni:about_me} From Peter Rohel's Rootsweb site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~...hek-hoenig.html#mrfh

"The [Hönig] family could be traced to Sagan, in Upper Silesia (Germany) from where one of the descendants, Salomon Hoenig, moved to Nove Mesto, just across the Prussian border, probably soon after the Napoleonic wars. He was first a tenant farmer who in the course of years became the owner of good property. For the processing of the potato crop he built a mill and refinery for spirits, which he later expanded to a liquor factory." [From AutobiographicalSketches of [http://www.geni.com/people/Margaret-Honig/6000000014264844244 '''Margaret Hönig'''].]