Plumas County Biographies

Jacob Knuthsen

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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

 
He is a native of Holstein, Germany, where he was born September 9, 1827. At the 
age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a dyer, and worked at that trade until he 
was twenty-three, when he went into the German army, and was present at the 
battle of Idstedt in which the Germans were defeated. He got his discharge in 
two years, and in 1850 came to America, landing at New York. Here he embarked in 
the grocery business, which he followed until 1859, when he came to California, 
via Panama, arriving in San Francisco June 6. He went at once to Downieville, 
and was engaged in hydraulic mining for thirteen years. In 1872 he removed to 
Sierra valley and bought the Peter Schutte ranch of 860 acres, twelve miles 
north-west of Sierraville, which has since been his home. He was married January 
20, 1855, to Miss Regina Meyer of New York City, a native of Bavaria, born 
December 25, 1832. The children born to them are John Henry, March 17, 1856; 
Margaret Regina, September 11, 1857 (now Mrs. A. M. Haselton); George W., April 
5, 1860; Henrietta, December 9, 1870-all of whom are living. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 272