Kern County Biographies

A. C. ALBERTS

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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A. C. ALBERTS is a sturdy pioneer of California. He came to this State in 1849 
and was one of the original settlers of the town of Columbia, Tuolumne County.
   He was born in Hanover, German, May 25, 1824, the son of a clergyman of the 
Dutch Reformed Presbyterian Church, and one in a family of three sons and three 
daughters. At the age of twenty-six years he sailed to America, coming as second 
officer of a merchant sailing vessel. After mining until 1854, he went to 
Stockton and did carpenter work for a time. He then joined the United States 
coast Survey and served the Government four years. Next spent eight months in 
San Francisco, after which, in 1858, he went to Crescent City, California, and 
subsequently spent seven years at Jacksonville, Oregon.
   In 1861 Mr. Alberts married Jane Franklin, a native of Illinois. In 1865 they 
removed to Santa Cruz, California, and later to Ventura county, where he was one 
of the first settlers of the Santa Clara Valley. There they remained ten years, 
at the end of which time they came to there present home in the vicinity of 
Greenwich, where they own 700 acres of the best soil in Kern County. Mr. Alberts 
is interested in farming and stock-raising.
   He and his wife have an orderly family of four sons and three daughters, all 
reared to habits of industry and frugality. Mr. Alberts ranks among the best 
citizens of his locality.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 - p 337