Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Fritsch, Martin 1838 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

MARTIN FRITSCH, son of Antone and Elizabeth Fritsch, was born May 10, 1838, at
Alsace, France, now in Germany. He came to this country at the age of seventeen,
and lived four years at Woodstock, Illinois. He served eighteen months in the
war in company A, Fifteenth Illinois regiment, and was honorably discharged at
Legrange, Tennessee, on account of sickness. While in service he was at the
battle of Pittsburg Landing. Upon recovering from his illness he came to
California, via Panama. He worked a year as blacksmith at the Crescent mine, and
two years at the Indian valley mine. Afterwards he was employed by the Kettle
Mining Company and the Bullfrog Company. He took a trip east in 1866, returned
in 1867, and settled with his brother, J. B. Fritsch, on the farm they now
occupy. February 28, 1867, he was married to Miss Christina Hafner of Eteka, New
York, by whom he has had one daughter, Lizzie, born July 13, 1871. He is a
member of Taylorville Lodge No. 132, F. & A. M.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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