Sierra County Biographies

F. L. Fischer

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 
 was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1849. When fourteen years old he worked in a 
brewery, and learned the trade at which he worked until 1869. In 1870, upon the 
breaking out of the Franco-Prussian war, he went into the army, where he served 
until 1874, when he was discharged, and emigrated directly to California. He 
located at Sierra City, worked one year there in the mines, and then went to 
Downieville. Here he was employed five years in the brewery. In October, 1881, 
he purchased an interest in the Sierra Brewery, which he owns at present, in 
company with William Junkert. Mr. Fischer was married in 1877 to Mrs. H. Fischer 
of Sierra City.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 488