Inyo County Biographies

GUSTAVE SANGER

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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now of Inyo County, is one of the well known pioneers of central California.  
His great energy and enterprise have made him a leader among business men, and 
brought him a large fortune.  He was born in Saxony, Germany, October 18, 1832.  
He learned thoroughly the trade of butcher, and emigrated to America in 1847.  
He first engaged in the butchering business in Cincinnati, Ohio; from there he 
went to St. Louis, Missouri, and later he pursued the same business in the 
District of Columbia.  He came to California in 1853, and located on Paso creek, 
where he engaged in sheep and cattle raising.  He continued in the same business 
until 1880, with phenomenal success, and was regarded at that time the owner of 
more stock than any other man in Kern County.  In 1881 he took his family, and 
with 23,000 head of stock went to Montana, where he sold his stock, and finally 
returned.  He was at that time running an extensive butchering business at 
Bakersfield, and afterward sold the same to H. L. Borgwart, Jr., his son-in-law. 
 He owned a considerable amount of land in Kern County, which he also sold, and 
took up his residence in Inyo County, where he has 5,000 acres of choice lands, 
and is raising stock and grain on a magnificent scale.
	Mr. Sanger has been twice married.  His first wife was Miss Johanna Peterson, 
a German lady, and by her he has two daughters and one son.  Mr. Sanger died at 
Bakersfield.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 � p. 808