. History of Sacramento 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; . advantages in that prosperous German city. Uponstarting out to make his own way in life, crossing the ocean toAmerica, he settled in St. Louis, Mo., about 1850 and there securedemployment at his trade of a butcher. However, the west was thenappealing to young men by reason of its great mines and otherpossibilities and in 1852 he joined an expedition that came acrossthe plains to Sacrament
. History of Sacramento 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; . advantages in that prosperous German city. Uponstarting out to make his own way in life, crossing the ocean toAmerica, he settled in St. Louis, Mo., about 1850 and there securedemployment at his trade of a butcher. However, the west was thenappealing to young men by reason of its great mines and otherpossibilities and in 1852 he joined an expedition that came acrossthe plains to Sacramento. After one unfruitful year in the mineshe located permanently in Sacramento and here engaged in thebutcher business. For thirty years he conducted a shop of his own,having his place of business at No. 418 K street, the present siteof the large department store owned by Weinstock, Lubin & he established his home at No. 2229 P street in 1892 andhere his death occurred August 12, 1898, thus bringing to a closea long and honorable identification with his adopted city. The marriage of George Philip Hartmann and Christine Nehr-bass was solemnized September 27, 1864, in San Francisco. HISTORY OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY 699 Hartmaim was born near Meutz, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. Atthe age of nine years she left Darmstadt for America in companywith her parents, Wendell and Christine (Fischer) Nehrbass. For abrief period before coming- to California they sojourned in Buffalo,N. Y., then a town of insignificant proportions and the market townof a near-by tribe of Indians. When twenty-two years of age, in1859, she came to California via the Isthmus of Panama, and afterher marriage began housekeeping in Sacramento, where now shecontinues to reside in the home acquired by Mr. Hartmann manyyears ago. One of her brothers, Jacob Nehrbass, is still a residentof Sacramento, where for many years he was connected with theSouthern Pacific Railroad Company. It was the privilege of
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