Sacramento County Biographies

HANS P PETERSON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
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	farmer and fisherman; Post Office, Sacramento; lives six and 
a-half miles from Sacramento; he owns two hundred acres of land; was born in 
Denmark in 1845, and lived there until 1860; he then followed the sea until 
1865, when he engaged in mining in Australia for about a year. He came to 
California in 1866, and settled in this county, where he has since lived, 
engaged in farming and fishing. His land and improvements are worth about 
$5,000. Mr. Peterson was married in 1873 to Amelia Mucke, a native of New York, 
and by whom he has had three daughters; one is deceased. A view of his place is 
given on another page. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.