California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


GETZ, SOLOMON. Was born in Prussia, January 29, 1850. When fourteen years of age he started for 
America, and in March, 1866, we find him in San Francisco, and soon after in Lower Lake, where he 
engaged as clerk for his brother Joseph, in a general merchandise store. After following this 
occupation for one year he went to South America, where he engaged in the fur trade until 1870. The 
succeeding two years were spent in traveling, and in 1872 he returned to Lower Lake, where he still 
continues to run the store so early established by his brother. Mr. Getz married, March 1, 1874, Miss 
Dora Tobias, a native of New York. By this union they have four children : Albert, Edgar, Jacob and 
Mabel.