Sacramento County Biographies

WILLIAM DETERDING

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Routier; lives fifteen miles from Sacramento, 
on the Placerville road, at what is known as the �Fifteen-Mile House;� was born 
in Germany, in 1818, and lived there until 1846; emigrated to the United States 
in that year, and was engaged in carriage and wagon-making, in St. Louis,- 
Missouri, until 1850; he then came to California, and was in the mercantile 
business, in Placer County, until 1857, when he moved to this county; he owns 
five hundred and eighteen acres, worth, with improvements, about eighteen 
thousand dollars. He was married, in 1844, to Miss Wilhelmina Rosenburg, also a 
native of Germany, and who has borne him four sons and five daughters; three 
sons are deceased. An illustration of his place may be seen elsewhere in this 
work. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.