Yolo-Placer-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Mosbacher, Jacob 1820 - 1903
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Author: Tom Gregory

JACOB MOSBACHER

    One of the most courageous pioneers of the west was Mr. Mosbacher, who
passed away near Madison in 1903, survived by his four daughters and his wife.
The latter was formerly Mrs. Mary Cooper, whose birth occurred in Ireland and
who died at the old home November 23, 1904. Mr. Mosbaeher was born August 22,
1820, in Bavaria, Germany, where he received his education, immigrating in 1842
to Miami county, Ohio, where he resided eight years. In 1850 he came to San
Francisco via Panama, arriving at his destination with no capital save his own
determination, which later proved fully adequate to meet the trials which ensued.

    Stopping for a short time at Dutch Flat, Mr. Mosbacher continued his way to
Hangtown, where he was a prospector and overseer in mines for the succeeding
eight years. With his earnings of $2,000 he settled in 1858 in Yolo county,
where he filed on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, two and one-half
miles south of Madison, happy in the knowledge that the hardships which he had
endured as a miner were gone forever. Later he purchased a quarter section in
Napa valley, also a similar tract adjoining his homestead, and still later added
to his holdings one hundred and eighty-four acres near Woodland, the larger
portion of which is fine bottom land, thus at the time of his death owning five
hundred acres of fine land.

  To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Mosbacher five children were born: John,
deceased; Eva, Mrs. Mulcahy, who resides in San Francisco; Margaret, now the
wife of H. T. Lynch of San Francisco, and a graduate of Holy Rosary Academy;
Rose, Mrs. Harry Han, of Madison; and Susie, who was educated at Holy Rosary
Academy and is now Sister M. J. Alenie of the Sisters of the Holy Cross,
residing at the convent at Fresno.

   Mr. Mosbacher was a Republican, intelligently interested in political issues,
and he endeavored at all times to exercise his rights as a progressive and
broad-minded citizen, his unquestioned business ability and genial temperament
having placed him among the most successful and popular men of the county.

   Harry Han, to whom Rose Mosbacher was united in marriage September 5, 1905,
is a native of Deedsville, Ind., and for the past sixteen years has been a
resident of Yolo county, where he is engaged in farming and stock raising. Mrs.
Han received from her father one hundred and sixty acres of land, a part of the
old homestead, two and a half miles south of Madison, and here she and her
husband make their home. An advocate of Republican principles, which he is
prompt to support, Mr. Han is well known as a citizen of the highest worth,
always among the first to aid in public enterprises of merit. His wife, who
maintains active membership in the Madison Catholic Church, lends practical aid
in the charitable work carried on by that institution and is known as a woman of
rare sympathies and kindly personality.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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