Marin County Biographies

 ADOLPH GERICKE

Transcribed by Betty Wilson, September, 2004.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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             Born in Hanover, Germany April 26, 1832.  When he 
was twenty years old he came to the United States, and to California settling in 
Petaluma, and the June following settled on San Antonio creek in this county, 
and took up land then owned by James Black.  Here he lived till February, 1856.  
He then moved to Big Valley, Sonoma county, but only remained seventeen months.  
Again in 1857 he settled on land contained in the Blucher Rancho in Marin 
county.  In 1875 he came to his present ranch of three hundred acres, where he 
has since resided.  Married, January 9, 1858, Ellen Fallon.  She was born in 
Ireland, and came to the United States, when five years old, being raised in 
Boston, Massachusetts, and came to this State in 1857.  Mary Elizabeth, born 
Oct. 10, 1858; Otto William, September 1, 1860; George Frederick, May 13, 1863; 
James Robert, June 7, 1865; Adolph Mentor, May 24, 1868; Anna Matilda, May 13, 
1870; Nellie Ottilie, July 15, 1872; Augusta Louisa, June 14, 1874; Agnes 
Theresa, May 19, 1876; Juliette Loretta, September 3, 1878, are their children.
 
�History of Marin County, California�, Alley, Brown & Co., Publishers, San 
Francisco, 1880