Sacramento County Biographies

LOUIS J. LITHAUER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	wholesale and retail dealer in clothing and gentlemen's 
furnishing goods, 418 J street, Sacramento; was born in Hartford, Conn., in 
1852, and remained until 1860; then moved to New York with parents, and attended 
school until 1868, in which year he came to California alone, by the Isthmus 
route, and engaged in book-keeping in San Francisco until 1872, then started 
business corner Post and Kearny streets, San Francisco, which he still carries 
on in connection with his business in Sacramento; established in May, 1879. With 
the exception of an absence of eight months in 1878 (in which he visited the 
Sandwich Islands, Japan, Australia and South Sea Islands), he has been closely 
confined to his business since first established. 

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