Sutter County CA Archives Biographies.....Bihlman, George 1826 - 1894
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Author: Peter J. Delay

    GEORGE BIHLMAN. — A prominent pioneer rancher of Sutter County, George
Bihlman is remembered throughout this section and justly classed among its
representative citizens of the past. He was born June 24, 1826, in Baden,
Germany, where his youth was spent, and where he learned the tanner's trade. In
1848 he came to Pennsylvania, and ten months later removed to St. Louis, Mo.,
where he worked until 1852. In 1852 he entered the employ of the government and
drove an ox team across the plains to California. After his arrival he worked
for a time in the mines at Dutch Flat. Not meeting with the success he expected,
he came to Sutter County in 1855, and near Live Oak worked for a time on a
ranch, after which he purchased a squatter's right to 280 acres of unimproved
land three miles west of Live Oak, upon which property he resided until 1875,
when he purchased 480 acres lying one mile south of Live Oak. Later he added
eighty acres to the original purchase, making a place of 560 acres, upon which
he erected good buildings, and upon which he made his home until his death,
which occurred November 12, 1894. 

    Mr. Bihlman was married here on October 24, 1864, to Mrs. Sophia (Eberman)
Plattner, who was born in Germany, and came to the United States with her
parents when thirteen years of age. For a time the Eberman family resided in St.
Louis, Mo., afterwards removing to Fort Madison, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. George
Bihlman were the parents of six children, four of whom are deceased, three
having died in childhood, and a daughter, Dora B., at the age of twenty-three
years. Those living are Anthony William, and Mrs. Christina Rothney, both
ranchers on the old Bihlman ranch at Live Oak. Mrs. Bihlman survived her husband
until May 8, 1914. 


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HISTORY OF YUBA and SUTTER COUNTIES 
CALIFORNIA 
WITH 
Biographical Sketches OF 
The Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified with Their
Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present 

HISTORY BY 
PETER J. DELAY 

ILLUSTRATED 
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME 

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1924


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