Sacramento County Biographies

CHRISTIAN MIERS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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COSUMNES TOWNSHIP. 
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	Lives twenty-five miles from Sacramento, and eight miles from 
Michigan Bar, his Post Office; was born in Germany in 1834; emigrated to the 
United States in 1840, and lived in Missouri until 1852, engaged in butchering 
and farming. He then came to California, across the Plains, and followed farming 
and stock-raising; owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, worth about $5 per 
acre. Mr. Miers went back to Missouri in 1863, but returned to this State in 
1864. He was married in 1864 to Miss Elizabeth Snyder, a native of Missouri, and 
who has borne him seven children, six of whom are living, three sons and three 
daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.