Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN KLEES

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	of the firm of Nash & Klees, manufacturers of Nash & Cutts' Grain 
Separator, 906 K street, Sacramento, was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, in 
1832, and in 1845 he moved with his parents to Ohio, and soon after to 
Wisconsin. In 1849, he came overland to California, arriving at Weaverville, 
October 2, 1849, where he mined for a while, and then moved to Sacramento and 
engaged in wood cutting and teaming; he then kept a hay-yard for some years in 
connection with a ranch. In 1854 he went back to the mines in Grass Valley and 
vicinity; he kept hotel and mined. In 1857 he went to Orleans Flat; in 1860 he 
returned to Sacramento and kept a feed store and hay-yard; burned out in 1864, 
and two years later moved on to the Norris ranch; was burned out there in 1867; 
came back to the city and started in the teaming business, and in 1870 entered 
his present business. In 1871 he moved to the present stand, and in 1877 he and 
Hiram Nash became sole proprietors. In 1860 he married Victoria Cooper, a native 
of Canada; they have had six children, of whom one son and two daughters are 
living. 

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