Sacramento County
Biographies
LOUIS GERBER
LOUIS GERBER, wholesale butcher, of Sutter Township, was born in 1854, in Buffalo, New York. His parents, Pantalion and Sybil Gerber, were natives of Germany, and came to the United States in 1837; they lived twenty-three years in Buffalo, where Mr. Gerber was engaged in the butcher business, to which he had been brought up in the old country. In April, 1860, he came to California, by way of New York and the Isthmus, and located in Sacramento; and here he followed his favorite calling until his death in 1878, in Germany, whither he had gone on account of ill health. His widow is still living, at the age of seventy-five years, with her sons, on the ranch. In their family were four sons and one daughter: John, Henry, William E., Louis and Anna M.,—all residents of this county. William E. is a director in the California State Bank in Sacramento, where he is employed; Henry is in the butchering business and in the hop trade; and John and Louis have their cattle ranch in Klamath County, Oregon. In the home ranch here, two miles from Sacramento, they have 110 acres; and they also have 800 acres near Florin. It is all very fine property. Mr. Louis Gerber is a member of lodge No. 42, K. of P., of Sacramento. He and his brothers, John and Henry, are yet unmarried.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 650-651. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.