Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

JOHN R. RICKERTS

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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Forty-five years of the active career of John R. Rickerts have been spent in 
California, where he has attained a fair degree of independence and has become 
well known for his honesty and uprightness of character.  He was born on the 
island of Fohr, Germany, September 30, 1863, the eighth of eleven children born 
to R. P. and Josie C. (Olafs) Rickerts, both natives of the island of Fohr.  R. 
P. Rickerts was a farmer by occupation, and his son John R. was reared to farm 
work.
John R. Rickerts attended public school until the age of fifteen.  Soon 
thereafter he left for the United States, and came direct to Nicolaus, Sutter 
County, Cal., in 1879, where he joined his brother Peter, who had preceded him 
to California in 1876.  J. R. Rickerts was employed as a ranch laborer for ten 
years, and then left for a visit to his old home, and visited his mother, who 
was still living.  While he was there, his mother passed away, in March, 1890; 
and in July of the same year his brother Peter passed away at Nicolaus, Cal.  In 
the spring of 1891, Mr. Rickerts returned to California.  For the past 
thirty-three years, Mr. Rickerts has served as chef on the Saylor ranch near 
Nicolaus.  He has been thrifty and economical, and has invested his means in 
bank stock, having stock in the First National Bank of Yuba City and also in the 
Farmers and Merchants Bank of Sacramento.  In 1897, Mr. Rickerts became a 
charter member of Von Moltke Lodge No. 24, order of the Sons of Herman, at 
Nicolaus, and in 1910 he was elected treasurer, a position he still holds.  
Since receiving his United States citizenship, Mr. Rickerts has supported the 
principles of the Republican party.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1007