Plumas-Nevada-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Knoll, Matthias 1821 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

MATTHIAS KNOLL is a German by birth, and was born at the town of Landan, on the
Rhine, August 3, 1821. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a cooper,
and worked at the trade for two years. He then worked three years in a brewery,
and in another brewery in Switzerland five years. In 1848 he came to Cincinnati,
brewed the amber fluid a year at that place, and two years at St. Louis, and
then started overland to California. He mined three months in Nevada county, two
years on Bear river, six months at Auburn, Placer county, three years in Yuba
county, and eight months in Sierra county. From here he went to British Columbia
and Washington Territory, and from there to Yuba county, finally bringing up in
Plumas. After moving around considerably he started a brewery near Crescent,
which he still owns and runs. He also owns the adjoining ranch of 600 acres. He
was married October 11, 1867, to Mrs. Geiss, by whom he has had two children,
Gustavus, born August 4, 1868, and Christina, June 4, 1870. Three children of
Mrs. Geiss, born prior to her marriage with Mr. Knoll, were named Josephine,
Jacob, and Mary Louise. Two died in 1862, and one in 1864.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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