Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Knuthsen, Jacob 1827 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JACOB KNUTHSEN.—He is a native of Holstein, Germany, where he was born September
9, 1827. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a dyer, and worked at the
trade until he was twenty-three, when he went into the German army, and was
present at the battle of Idstedt, in which the Germans were defeated. He got his
discharge in two years, and in 1850 came to America, landing at New York. Here
he embarked in the grocery business, which he followed until 1859, when he came
to California, via Panama, arriving in San Francisco June 6. He went at once to
Downieville, and was engaged in hydraulic mining for thirteen years. In 1872 he
removed to Sierra valley and bought the Peter Schulte ranch of 860 acres, twelve
miles north-west of Sierraville, which has since been his home. He was married
January 20, 1855, to Miss Regina Meyer of New York City, a native of Bavaria,
born December 25, 1832. The children born to them are John Henry, March 17,
1856; Margaret Regina, September 11, 1857 (now Mrs. A. M. Haselton); George W.,
April 5, 1860; Henrietta, December 9, 1870—all of whom are living.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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