Alameda County Biographies

HARMAN EGGERS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Was born in Germany, April 19, 1823, and was there educated. At sixteen years of agae he 
commenced to learn the trade of bricklayer, and in 1844 emigrated to the United States.  
Locating in Perry County, Missouri, he there passed the winter of 1844-45, and in the spring 
moved to St. Louis, where he worked at his trade for a time.  In 1853 he crossed the plains to 
California with Mr. Blacow, and arrived October 21st, settling at once on his present estate, 
comprising one hundred and ten acres.  Married, in St. Louis in 1852, Miss Mary Durreng, a 
native of Germany, and has:  Louis H., Edward H., Matilda, Frank, Alice, and Helen.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 882