Yolo-Sierra-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Schlieman, Fred. 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

FRED. SCHLIEMAN, a well-known farmer of Yolo County, was born in Germany,
December 15, 1825, a son of Fred and Helen Schlieman, natives of that country.
At the age of twenty-one years he emigrated to Texas, landing at the port of
Galveston, and served in the Mexican war. In 1850 he started with a mule team
and came through Mexico and Arizona to California, arriving at San Diego
September 17, 1850. Four months afterward he went to San Francisco and in a
short time to the mines at Park's Bar, on the Yuba River; next to Doty's Flat in
Placer County, where he was engaged in mining until 1856. He then spent a year
at his native place in the East, and on returning settled in Yolo County at the
place which he now occupies, containing three quarter-sections of land. He is a
prosperous farmer, and takes great interest in the welfare of his commnnity and
in the county. He was elected Assessor in 1879, served till 1884, was elected
County Clerk in 1885 for two years; was also Justice of the Peace in earlier days.

  He was married, in 1857, to Caroline Kuntze, a native of Germany, and they
have two daughters and four sons, namely: William A., Harry F., Ernest E.,
Adolph F., Louis F., Helen L. and Minnie C.


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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