California Biographies, Alameda County 
Maas Luders

History of Alameda County, California
Publisher: Oakland, Calif : M. W. Wood

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Maas Luders.�Was born in Holstein, Germany, January 27, 1837. At the age
of fifteen he commenced a seafaring life and after six years of a "life on the ocean
wave" with all its concomitant disadvantages he found himself in New York Harbor.
On July 26, 1858, he shipped on board the Mary Brigham from Savannah, Georgia,
bound via Cape Horn to San Francisco, California. In the Bay City Mr. Luders
arrived November 11, 1858, and now trying a shore-going life he came to Alameda
County and first found employment for six months in Washington Township, then
with Cornelius Mohr, Eden Township, until September 15, 1861. In this year Mr.
Luders rented land near Haywards and resided on it until 1865. In 1863 he rented
a portion of the Dougherty Ranch, which he farmed while residing in Haywards.
Finally, in the fall of 1865, he came to the place where he now lives, about two and a
half miles west of Livermore, where he has been engaged in farming extensively up to
the present time. In 1881 he purchased a tract of land of Wm. M. Mendenhall; a
portion of the Rancho El Valle de San Jose, also a part of the Santa Rita Ranch,
where he intends to make his permanent home in the future. He married November
21, 1872, Maria Hagemann, also a native of Holstein. The family consists of a stepson
named August Hagemann. A portrait of Mr. Luders will be found in this work.