Sonoma County Biographies

JOHN F. GRATER

Transcribed Sally Kaleta, July, 2007

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

                     Was born in Germany, June 28, 1836. Emigrated to America 
when eighteen years of age. Settled in Philadelphia, where he resided until 
1859, when he emigrated to California via Panama. Settled in Santa Rosa, this 
county, in 1860. Here he remained, being engaged in the hotel business until 
1862. He then bought the Union Bakery at Healdsburg; this he remodeled into what 
is now the Union Hotel, which he has since conducted. He is also the owner of 
two large stores in Healdsburg. Mr. Grater married Miss Catherine Deolin June 1, 
1865.
 
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 
1880, p. 507.