Mendocino County Biographies

John Standacher

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, December 27, 1842, where he 
resided till he was eight years of age. He remained in that country, however, 
till 1865, when he sailed on the steamer Bavaria from Hamburg to New York. He 
came to California in August, 1871, and proceeded at once to the mines, where he 
spent a year and a half at Coloma. He then went to White Pine, Nevada, and was 
there during the great silver excitement at that place. He returned to 
California in 1875, and remained in Nevada and Yolo counties until 1876, when he 
came to Sonoma county, and in the same year to Mendocino county, and settled o 
his present place near Mendocino City, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, 
in the fall of 1878. He is unmarried. On the 26th day of December, 1878, Mr. 
Standacher filed his declaration of homestead in the Land Office for north of 
northwest, and south-east of north-west, and south-west of north-east, section 
three, township sixteen north, seventeen west.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 558