Contra Costa-El Dorado-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Hamburg, Frederick L. 1824 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

FREDERICK L. HAMBURG.—The subject of this sketch is a native of Hesse Cassel,
Germany, born March 5, 1824, and there attended school until fifteen years of
age, when he was apprenticed to the trade of harness-maker for four years. He
followed that business until twenty-one years of age. He then enlisted in the
army for three years, and in the Fall of 1850 emigrated to the United States,
first locating in New York city, where he followed his trade and resided until
his coming to this State. In June, 1853, he sailed, via the Nicaragua route, for
California, and arrived in San Francisco in July of the same year. He then went
to the mines of El Dorado and Calaveras counties, where he followed mining until
1858, when he came to Contra Costa county, locating in Alamo, where he found
employment at his trade. Remaining but a short time, he again returned to the
mines; and in 1860 came back to Contra Costa and to Alamo, when he bought his
former employer's harness establishment, engaged in business for himself, and
there continued until the Spring of 1876. He then sold out, and with his family
paid a visit to his old home in Germany. There they sojourned about two years,
and again returned to California, remaining in San Francisco about one year. In
May, 1879, we once more find him in this county, having purchased his present
farm in Alamo of one hundred and sixteen acres, which he has leased, but still
retains his residence, and is now living on the fruits of a well spent and
prosperous life. Married in Alamo June 21, 1863, Miss Maria Korman, a native of
Germany. They have two children— August and Frederick L. Jr.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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