Sacramento Valley Biographies

CLAUS EGGERT

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, June 2009.

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          Born in Holstein, Germany, September 21, 1843, Claus Eggert has
found his success in life as an agriculturist in California, being located
in the vicinity of Dixon, Solano County. His father, Johan Eggert, was a
native of Germany, where he lived and died, engaging as a farmer for a
livelihood. He and his wife, who also spent her entire life in the
Fatherland, were the parents of six children, three sons and three
daughters, of whom Claus Eggert is the third in order of birth. He received
his education in the common schools of his native country, where he remained
until 1869, engaging in farming with his father for a part of the time.
Deciding to immigrate to America, in 1869 he located in San Francisco, Cal.,
where he remained two weeks. Coming to Solano county, he found his first
employment as a farm hand in the vicinity where he now lives, and with the
passing years was able to save sufficient means to enable him to purchase
property. In 1892 he made his first purchase and since that time has
continued to add to his original acreage, until today he owns  nine hundred
and forty acres, of which six hundred acres are given over to the
cultivation of barley, two hundred acres to wheat and forty acres to hay,
the remainder devoted to pasturage for his stock. In 1895 he built a
handsome residence two stories in height and fitted it up in a modern style,
and also has erected large and convenient outbuildings, bringing his
property to rank with the best in this section.

          In 1883, in this vicinity, Mr. Eggert was united in marriage with
Mrs. Lena (Jahn) Stick, a native of Holstein, Germany, who died in 1903. She
was the mother of three children by her second marriage, Otto, Edmund and
Elda, all at home, and seven by her first marriage. Of these, Herman is
located in this vicinity; Lena is the wife of Jacob Rohwer of Dixon; and
Amanda is at home. Mrs. Eggert's first husband, John Stick, was a native of
Germany and came as a sailor to the United States. Taking French leave of
his ship in San Francisco harbor, he went to San Mateo County, later
locating in Solano county, near Dixon, where, in partnership with Henry
Saltzen, he was engaged in the cattle business. It was here that he met and
married Miss Jahn, and later bought the old place where the family now
resides. Here he carried on farming until his death in 1880. 

        Mr. Eggert is a member of the German Lutheran Church, and
politically is a Republican. For one term he served as school trustee and
takes an active interest in the betterment of the community in every
possible way.

"History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the
Sacramento Valley, Cal.," J. M. Guinn, The Chapman Publishing Company,
Chicago, 1906, Pages 530-531.