Alameda-Solano-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Fath, Adam 1821 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

ADAM FATH, a general farmer near Livermore, was born in Bavaria, Germany,
November 20, 1821, and when twenty-one years of age he emigrated to America, the
land of golden opportunities, and first found employment in Buffalo, on board of
a steamboat plying between that city and Chicago. At the end of two years he
went to West Troy and enlisted in the United States army, serving five years in
the Ordnance Department, being discharged after he came to Benicia, this State,
in 1852. After spending two years in the vicinity of that place, he was employed
three years in the quartermaster's department, taking charge of stock by
contract and not as an enlisted man. Then for two years he was engaged in the
dairy business in Solano County, and then, in 1857, he came into Alameda County
and was employed in stock-raising until 1864, when he unfortunately lost all his
animals by starvation in consequence of the excessive drouth. In 1865 he went to
Livermore and located 160 acres of land on a land warrant granted to him for
services rendered to the United States during the Mexican war; and here he has
since remained engaged in general farming. In his political views he is a
Democrat, and has been active in local politics. He was sent as a delegate to
the State Convention, and has been county delegate a number of times; but he has
never held office.

  He was married in 1855, at Vallejo, to Miss Mary Fehily, and they have had
eight children, five of whom are living, named, John A., Valentine, Mary M.,
Annie M. and Louisa L.


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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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