Butte-San Francisco-San Joaquin County CA Archives Biographies.....Mindermann, John 1835 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    JOHN MINDERMANN is a son of Herman and Adelphite Mindermann, and was born in
the kingdom of Hanover, May 12, 1835. When at the age of fifteen years, he came
to the shores of America and was employed in New York as a clerk in a wholesale
grocery store, until 1854, when he took sail on the steamer George Law, via the
isthmus, for California. He was engaged at San Francisco in clerking and other
pursuits, and also at Stockton. He had saved up several hundred dollars, which
were sunk in profitless ventures. At Sacramento he fell in with some miners
going north, and with them journeyed to Oroville, then Ophir. Here he followed
mining in company with George C. Perkins, A. M. West, and Thomas and George
Faulkner. He mined for a time at White Rock, and was one of the party who sank
the first shaft near the depot site. From Oroville he went to Sierra county,
where he realized better results for his labor, and returned to the valley in
1860 with limited means. He located on the place he now owns, in company with a
friend, and endured many reverses and privations; but perseverance had its
reward and prosperity came to them. In 1871, Mr. Mindermann returned to Europe,
and while there married Eliza Hoopes, a native of the province of Holstein,
after which they came to his home in Butte county. In 1876, they visited, the
centennial exposition, and he accompanied his wife to Europe, where she remained
for three years. In 1879, he again crossed the Atlantic for her, and brought her
to his home, where they have since resided. His farm, near Biggs, has 440 acres
under cultivation, which he rents. His family consists of three children. He is
a member of the Oroville Lodge, No. 59, I. O. O. F. He is now engaged in loaning
money and looking after farm interests.

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HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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