Sacramento County Biographies

FRED MEYERS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
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	lives twenty-five miles from Sacramento, and four miles from 
Courtland; he owns seventy-two acres of land; was born in Germany in 1822; and 
lived there until 1854, engaged in farming; he then emigrated to the United 
States, and engaged in farming in Ohio until 1866; he came to California in that 
year, and settled on Grand Island, where he has been farming ever since. He was 
married in 1859 to Katie Viburg, also a native of Germany, who has borne him 
three children one son and two daughters; one daughter is deceased. His land and 
improvements are worth about $6,000; Post Office, Courtland. A view of his place 
is given on another page. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.