Sonoma-Nevada-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Schetter, Otto 1832 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Schetter, Otto. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 27, 1832. After receiving
his education he remained on his father's farm till the death of both his
parents in 1851. Emigrated to California in December 1852. Arrived in San
Francisco about the 1st of February, 1853, and spent a few months mining near
Grass Valley. Came to Sonoma in July, 1853, and has resided there at intervals
ever since. In the Spring of 1854 he went into the hay and grain business in San
Francisco, having considerable trade with Sonoma. In 1857 he returned to Sonoma
and engaged in sheep-raising. In 1861 he returned to San Francisco and engaged
in a general commission and grain business, and with the exception of a three
years' absence, principally in Alpine county, California, he continued in that
business until 1870, being the first of the firm of Schetter & Pearse, and
afterward of the firm of Schetter & Piquet. In 1870 he returned to Sonoma, and
the same year engaged in farming and sheep-raising in Berryesa valley. Napa
county, returning to Sonoma in 1874. In 1877 he was appointed United States
Internal Revenue Store-keeper, at Sonoma, which position he resigned in June
1879. In 1878 he was appointed by the Legislature one of three commissioners for
the Pueblo of Sonoma, to settle its affairs and procure a patent for its lands,
which office he now holds. He is at present and has for some years been engaged
in the livery stable and staging business in Sonoma, the firm being Schetter &
Carriger. He was married in Sonoma, April 11, 1860, to Elizabeth J., daughter of
N. Carriger of that place; they had nine children: Mary J., Rosina E., Nicholas
H., Delia, Cynthia L., Ada, May, David T., and Francis E.; lost one, Nicholas
H., died in May 1870.

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Sonoma Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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