Yolo County Biographies


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L. CRAMER
 
L. Cramer, a farmer at Cacheville, is the son of Lawrence and Mary (Barbary) 
Cramer, both natives of Germany.  The father, a farmer, came to the United 
States in 1803; and both parents died in Hamilton County, Ohio, the mother in 
1876 and the father in 1881.  Mr. Cramer, of this sketch, was born in Covington, 
Kentucky, June 25, 1836, and when but two months old he was taken by his parents 
to Ohio, in their immigration to that State.  At the age of sixteen years he 
came across the plains to the gold country in California, with a train of ninety 
wagons, leaving Ohio on February 1, 1852, and landed at Grizzly Flat, about 
sixteen miles from Diamond Spring, Placer County, where he mined that winter.  
After spending three months at Sacramento he came to Cacheville, Yolo County, 
where he has ever since remained, and where he has a fine farm of 100 acres two 
miles from town, on Cache Creek.  He also owns 11,000 acres, partly in Yolo 
County and partly in Colusa County.  On the home ranch he raises grain 
principally, and the large tract is devoted to stock-grazing.  He is a member of 
Yolo Lodge, No. 81, F. & A. M., and of the Knights Templar Lodge, No. 22.
 
He married Miss Mattie Pace in Yolo County, whose father, Russell Pace, was born 
in Kentucky and whose mother was a native of Virginia.  Mr. and Mrs. Cramer have 
five children, as follows:  Lawrence E., born in 1872; Bertha S., 1874; Mattie 
V., 1876; Charles V., 1878; and Greta G., 1886.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler