Sacramento County Biographies

ANDREW FAHRENBAKER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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LEE TOWNSHIP. 
Page 265.
 
	Post Office, Walsh Station; lives fourteen miles from 
Sacramento, on the Jackson road ; was born in Germany in 1822, and lived there 
until 1851, engaged in carpet weaving: was in the Prussian war of 1848; 
emigrated to the United States in 1851, and lived three months in Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania ; built a Catholic church in that city; while in course of 
construction he fell from it and broke his shoulder. From Pittsburg he went to 
Cincinnati and remained there two years, then to Dayton, Ohio, and then to 
California in 1856. Came to Sacramento and worked six months; took sick, and his 
wife did washing. Then moved to the country, paying $900 annual rent for dairy 
ranch, milking fifty cows. Took up a tract of three hundred and twenty acres of 
land on Stockton road, and lived on it till 1860, when he moved to his present 
home, and has followed farming since. Married Theresa Arnew in 1853. They have 
three boys living, one dead, and two girls living. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.