Tuolumne County Biographies

W. G. RUDORFF

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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Among the pioneers of �49, is the one whose name ap�pears at the head of this 
sketch.  Mr. Rudorff is a native of Prussia, and was born May 3, 1825.  Mr. 
Rudorff rounded the Horn on the old ship "Talisman," landing in San Fran�cisco 
on September 12, 1849. Here he remained until February, then went to the mines 
at Dutch Bar, near Coloma.  After mining here during the Summer season, and then 
working and prospecting in various mining districts thereabouts, he bought a 
ranch in Mokelumne Hill, in 1851, on which he settled.  This farm he sold in 
1852, and in the Summer of that year settled at Springfield, in this county, 
where he kept the old Union Hotel, then settling at Sonora in 1860.  On 
September 12th of this year Mr. Rudorff will have been a resident of the State 
thirty-three years, and of Sonora twenty-two years.  He married, while residing 
at Springfield, Henrietta Schleicher, a native of Saxe-Weimar, Germany, on July 
23, 1854.  They have four boys and four girls.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Pg. 401.