Mendocino County Biographies

William Wallach

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Born in Austria March 8, 1837. When fifteen years of age he 
emigrated to Philadelphia, where he spent about fifteen months. He then went to 
St. Louis, where he spent six months. We next find him in the coal mines of 
Alabama, where he remained about fifteen months. He next went to Illinois, where 
he followed the same occupation until 1867, when he came to this State and mined 
in Nevada county until June 1868, when he came to Mendocino county and settled 
on his present place, consisting of six hundred and forty acres, located on the 
road from Ukiah to Booneville, where he follows wool-growing and farming. Mr. 
Wallach married July 2, 1862, Miss Catherine Prillar, a native of Germany, born 
March 16, 1843. Their children are: Frank, born June 28, 1864; John, born May 
29, 1869; William, born November 14, 1870; Jacob, born September 19, 1875; Kate, 
born January 25, 1866; Mary, born December 26, 1872.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 516