Yolo-Placer-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Bitzer, Urias 1826 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

URIAS BITZER, farmer at Woodland, was born March 11,1826, in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, a son of John and Elizabeth (Royer) Bitzer, natives of
Pennsylvania. The father was a farmer all his life, and died in the same house
where he was born, in 1877, at the age of eighty-one years. The subject of this
sketch remained at his parental home until he was twenty-six years of age. He
then followed farming four years in St. Clair County, Illinois, and then, in
1856, came on to the Pacific coast by the Nicaragua route, sailing from New York
April 8, on the steamer Orizaba, and on the Pacific side on the Sierra Nevada.
They lay four weeks at Granada, then General Walker's headquarters. Out of 558
passengers on board, 138 died. Mr. Bitzer landed at San Francisco June 6 and
proceeded immediately to the mines at Iowa Hill, but in a few days went on to
Grass Valley, and a few days after that to Marysville, near which place he
engaged in a harvest field; next he spent a month in Plumas County, then a few
days in Nevada City, and then worked during the month of August in a harvest
field in Napa County; next chopped wood three months on the Norris grant, near
Sacramento; January 27,1857, he went to Shingle Springs, El Dorado County, where
he remained until 1877 engaged in mining and in a vineyard. In mining he was
reasonably successful. Then he went to the Black Hills, but in three days
started back to Sacramento; and then he set out to find a location, and after
traveling around a good deal; he settled in July, 1877, in Woodland, near which
point he purchased five acres of land, and he is now making that place his home.
At present he has twenty acres, just outside the western limits of town, and he
has 200 acres of farm laud five miles west of Black's Station. On his ranch he
raises principally grain and hay. Twenty acres of the home place is in grapes
and clover; seven acres of this vineyard are in Flaming Tokays, nine acres in
Zinfandels and one in raisin Muscats. He is a characteristic old-timer who is
always found busy, as the character of the improvements upon his premises
demonstrate. In 1871 he visited the East, after an absence of about twenty
years, and he returned to his Californian home more contented than ever. He is a
member of the O. C. F.

  July 31, 1877, he was married to Fianna Palmer, a native of Ohio, and they
have one daughter, named Mary.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

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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