Alameda County Biographies

JOHN FRICK

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson  August 2004

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	JOHN FRICK, of Livermore, was born in Monroe County, near Waterloo, New York, 
December 24, 1843, and in 1861 came to California by way of Panama.  For the first two years 
after his arrival in this State he engaged in the butchering business at San Francisco; for the 
next four years, in the same business at San Jos�, and finally, in 1867, he located near Livermore, 
where he is cultivating 160 acres in grain.  He has also another quarter-section of land, nine miles 
southeast of Livermore, which is devoted principally to grazing.
	He was married in Livermore, in 1867, to Miss Louisa Whitney, now deceased, and by 
that marriage there were four children:  John R., Louisa, Charles F. and Katherine.  In 1880 Mr. 
Frick was again married, and by this marriage there are also four children:  Etta M. Susan M., 
Herman and William.

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis Publishing Co., 1891