Sacramento County Biographies

JACOB MEISTER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
 
	was born in the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, Aug. 15, 1828; 
in 1854, with considerable experience in the dairy business, he embarked for the 
United States, via New York and Panama, landing at San Francisco in the middle 
of June; after about one year's experience as a gold miner, he went into the 
dairy business at Sacramento with his brother John, who came to California in 
1852; in 1856 they bought 945 acres, 4 miles north of Sacramento, and in 1874, 
also, the farm near the Tivoli House, 105 acres, northeast suburbs, Sacramento. 
In 1876 they dissolved partnership, John keeping the dairy business and the 
Tivoli farm, and Jacob, the subject of our sketch, the farm of 945 acres which 
was changed from tule land into good farming land by the 1862 high water that 
left thereon five feet of sediment, (thereby making it a valuable vegetable and 
grazing farm). In 1879 he bought the N. E. corner lot of 17th and I streets, 
where this year he is putting up a good substantial two-story dwelling in a 
modern style, which is shown on another page of the work. Was married in 
Sacramento, May 22, 1862, to Miss Kathrina Kopp, of Baden, Germany; their 
children were: Minnie, Katie, Laura, Emma and Nellie, all living, except Miss 
Minnie, who died Oct. 22, 1879, near the age of 17 years. A view of his place is 
given elsewhere. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.