Sacramento County Biographies

HENRY TREICHLER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 292-293.
 
	who resides in Sacramento, was born in Staffa Canton, Zurich, 
Switzerland, March 19, 1821, and remained there until 1842, engaged in 
tailoring, then went to France and worked at some business until 1845, when he 
came to the United States, at New Orleans and Memphis, Tenn. Worked a short time 
at his trade, and at San Antonio, Texas, and Baton Rouge, carried on the 
business for himself; leaving the latter place in 1849 he came to California. On 
the Isthmus, he suffered very severely with the fever, which induced him to 
decline a very tempting offer to stay there and embark in sugar manufacture. 
Arrived in San Francisco, December 27, 1849, and soon after embarked on a sail 
vessel, which on account of the great flood was more than a month in reaching 
Nicolaus, in Sutter county. From there went into Auburn mines, afterwards mined 
on the Yuba and worked elsewhere, part of the time farming, until August, 1850, 
when he came to Sacramento. Ranch life for three years near Sacramento was 
rendered disastrous by the floods, and in 1853 he bought a small building, which 
he kept as a hotel until 1860, when he built the Mechanics' Hotel on the same 
site, and kept it until 1869. In 1874, built his present brick residence, cor. 
20th and H. Mr. Treichler married Emma Zimmerman, January 31, 1863, a native of 
Switzerland. There were born to them seven children. They have now living two 
sons and two daughters. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.