Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN HERINGA

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Walsh Station; lives twelve miles from Sacramento, 
on the Jackson road; was born in Holland in 1819, and lived there until 1868, 
engaged on the police force; emigrated to California in that year, and followed 
farming and dairying in Yolo County until 1872; he then settled in this county 
and engaged in farming; owns one hundred and sixty acres, worth, with 
improvements, about $3000. He was married in 1857 to Gertie Joustra, also a 
native of Holland, born in 1835; they have four sons and a daughter Peter, born 
1859 ; Joseph, born 1861; John, born 1863; Sister, born 1866; Charlie, born 
1877. Four of the children were born in the old country ; Charlie born in this 
State. Mr. H. served nine years in the army before leaving Holland. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.