Alameda County Biographies

SAMUEL K. HASSINGER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Was born in Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, April 27, 1826, where he resided until 
he reached the age of twenty-two years, his boyhood having been passed on his father�s farm.  
He then learned the carpenter�s trade and followed it until 1849.  In the month of March of 
that year he emigrated with his wife and family to Marion County, Missouri, where, working at 
his trade, and farming, he resided three years.  In April, 1852, accompanied by his wife, he s
tarted with ox-teams across the plains to California, arriving at Stockton six months afterwards.  
Here Mr. Hassinger located for about three years and a half, subsequently removing to where now 
is the town of Copperopolis, and there engaged in mining for about a year, at the end of which he 
transferred the field of his operations to Knight�s Ferry, there mining also.  While a resident 
of this place, in 1857, he held the office of Justice of the Peace, being afterwards Deputy 
Sheriff.  In 1862 he left the place for San Francisco, and followed his trade until 1867, when he 
came to Oakland, where he now resides.  Mr. Hassinger has filled the office of Deputy Township 
Assessor under the administration of Messrs. Whetcher and Robinson, and in October, 1881, was 
elected to the position of Sanitary Inspector of the Health Office, which he held for eighteen 
months.  His present residence, No. 611 Seventeenth Street, he built in 1872.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 1001