Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Fritsch, John B. 1829 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com January 12, 2006, 5:22 pm

Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JOHN B. FRITSCH, son of Antone and Elizabeth Fritsch, is a native of Alsace,
Germany, and was born February 26, 1829. At the age of eighteen he came to
America, stopping for brief periods at New York, New Orleans, and St. Louis,
spending two years and a half at the last place. Six months after, he came
overland to California, and commenced mining on Feather river and Nelson creek.
In the winter of 1856 he removed to Indian valley, and in the fall of 1857
purchased a portion of the Desch brothers' farm, 200 acres on the west side of
Indian creek, where he has since resided. In 1862 he added 160 acres. In the
spring of 1858 he built a log cabin on the farm, which still stands on the site
of the town of Crescent. At that time there was not a house within a mile of
him. On the fifteenth of May, 1877, he sold the farm to his brother Martin, but
still lives there with him.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/plumas/bios/fritsch293bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/cafiles/

File size: 1.6 Kb