Sacramento County Biographies

BARNEY GERMAN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 277.

	machinist, farmer, and fruit-grower, lives two and one-half 
miles from Sacramento, his Post Office; owns ten acres of land, valued, with 
improvements, at about $2,500; born in Ireland in 1830; came to America in 1850, 
and settled in Vermont, where he followed the machinist trade; came to this 
State in 1866, via the Isthmus of Panama, and lived in Sacramento until 1878, 
when he moved to the place where he now resides; is in the employ of the Central 
Pacific Railway Company as a machinist. Married Miss Anna Powers in 1863; she is 
a native of Jersey City, New Jersey. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.