Shasta-San Francisco-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Pleisch, Theodore 1849 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

THEODORE PLEISCH. - Among the prominent business men of Anderson are none more
worthy of mention than the gentleman whose name heads this biographical sketch.
His parents, Theodore and Josephine (Angler) Pleisch, were natives of
Switzerland and emigrated to America in 1850, locating in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He also is a native of Switzerland, dating his birth October 7, 1849, and during
his parents' residence in Milwaukee he had the benefit of the public schools.
The family moved in 1859 to the State of Indiana, where the mother died. In 1860
the father recruited a company for the war, and received a commission as Captain
in the army, commanding Company A, Sixtieth Indiana Infantry, in which capacity
he served actively until 1863. While in action before Vicksburg he received a
wound which incapacitated him for service, and he was discharged in 1864, but
never fully recovered from his injury, and died in 1867.

  Our subject has also an army record. He was enlisted in 1861 as a drummer boy
in the Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and war engaged in many battles,
serving until 1865, when he was discharged. During his term of office the family
had moved to Philadelphia. When dismissed from the service he also went to that
city and engaged as clerk to E. Stipina & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, leaving
their employ in 1868, when he came, via Panama, to San Francisco. Here he
remained until the spring of 1869, then went to Sacramento and became engaged in
handling stock in the interest of George Leet for two years, and followed the
same business two years for Clarke & Cox. In 1872 he commenced stock-raising on
his own account, in Lassen County, and was successful in that enterprise until
the winter of 1876, when he lost most of his stock by severe weather and want of
food. In the spring he sold what remained of his stock, and took charge of
fourteen miles of road owned by A. M. Jackson, and known as the Montgomery Creek
& Burney toll road, running over the mountain districts of Shasta County. Mr.
Pleisch managed this enterprise until 1881, when he purchased ranch property,
but sold out the same year and came to Anderson, where he engaged in the real
estate business, buying and selling town property the first year. His next
enterprise was the building of a large livery and sale stable, and he has since
conducted the livery business, having also connected with his stables a large
corral for loose stock, and accommodation for teams hauling to and from the
mining districts. He is the owner of residence property in Anderson and farm
lands near town, and has been connected with several of the public enterprises
of this section of the county, being one of the incorporators of the Anderson
Canning establishment in 1890.

  Mr. Pleisch is a man of family, being joined in marriage at Montgomery Creek,
Shasta County, November 1, 1881, with Miss Arabella Bainbridge, a native of
California, and daughter of John P. Bainbridge, of Colusa County, who was a
pioneer of 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Pleisch have three children, viz.: John T., Eliza
and an infant son.


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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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