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


A. P. KLUIT.  Was born in Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands, March 27, 1847. In 1870 he came to 
New York and thence to California, arriving in June of that year. He then traveled all over California and 
Oregon in the interest of the Scientific Museum of the Netherlands. In 1872 he went to Yale College 
and became the private assistant of Professor O. C. Marsh. At the end of seven months he returned to 
San Francisco and engaged in the photograph business for eighteen months. In 1874 he made a trip to 
Europe and returned to San Francisco in October of that year. He then opened a real estate and 
collection office on Montgomery street. In June, 1878, he came to Napa County and first located at 
Calistoga. At the end of eighteen months he came to St. Helena and engaged in the livery business, 
which he still follows. November 24, 1874, he married Johanna L. Lunterwasser, a native of 
Amsterdam. They have one living child, Johanna L., born June 22,1880.