Contra Costa County Biography

GEORGE E. NETHERTON (deceased)

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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                  George E. Netherton was one of the representative ranchers who 
resided near Martinez. He was a son of John S. Netherton, one of the respected 
pioneers of eastern Contra Costa County, who now resides at Santa Cruz, 
California. George E. Netherton attended the Excelsior School, near Byron, and 
afterward went through business college. He assisted on the home place, and was 
married on July 31, 1895 to Clara  Hoffman, a daughter of William Hoffman, who 
died in 1891. Mr. Hoffman for many years operated a tannery in Contra Costa 
County. Mr. Hoffman started a tannery in Alameda County in 1853. From there he 
went to Sacramento and worked at his trade until the spring of 1856, when he 
came to this county. He had eighty acres and did general farming, besides having 
about three thousand vines of choice grapes and many varieties of fruit. Mr. 
Hoffman was born in Prussia in 1821. He came to America in 1845, and to 
California in 1851. He then went to the mines, remaining there one year. Mr. 
Hoffman was married to Elisa A. Myers, a native of Prussia, in 1858, and their 
children were Hermann, who died in 1894; Ferdinand, who died in 1892; and Clara, 
who married George E. Netherton, the subject of this sketch, and his death 
occurred on January 31, 1916.  To Mr. and Mrs. Netherton were born two children 
- Hertha and Clarence P. Mr. Netherton for some years operated a dairy. After 
his death his wife disposed of the stock and rented the ranch.
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California," Elms Publ.  Co., 1917, 
p. 622.