Sacramento County Biographies

A. W. TAPPER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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NATOMA TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Folsom; lives eight miles from that town, and 
twenty-two miles from Sacramento; was born in Prussia, December, 1829; emigrated 
to the United States in 1854, and came direct to California, by way of the 
Isthmus; he at once settled in this county, and engaged in mining, which he 
followed about twenty years, but was at the same time engaged in farming and 
stock-raising, which now receives all of his attention; his stock business is 
confined principally to sheep and horses; owns six hundred and forty acres of 
land, worth about $3,000. He was married, in 1861, to Miss Amelia Kummer, a 
native of Switzerland. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.