Sacramento County
Biographies
ALEXANDER
GOLDBERG
ALEXANDER GOLDBERG, farmer and orchardist, near Sacramento, was born in Berlin, Prussia, March 18, 1833, and remained with his parents until he was eighteen years of age. From the age of fourteen he worked at the baker’s trade. After visiting Hamburg, London and Liverpool, in 1850, he sailed for New York, arriving in December. First he was employed for four months in a brick-yard in New Jersey, near Washington eight months; then for two years he was cook for seventy-five men employed in the brick-yard where he formerly worked; for the next nine months he was proprietor of a bakery on Montrose avenue, in Williamsburg, during which time he was married to Margaret Horn; and finally he came to California by the Nicaragua route, landing at San Francisco July 3. For the first three months he was employed in Winn’s confectionery and ice-cream saloon, on Kearny street, that city; next he was employed in mining three weeks on Gutcher’s Bar, on the Yuba River; then nine months at the Metropolitan Restaurant and ice-cream saloon, on Montgomery street, in San Francisco; mined awhile at Omega, Nevada County, where he erected a building for a hotel, restaurant and bakery. A year and a half afterward he sold out this establishment, came to Sacramento and kept a saloon on Third street for a time. Selling out this, he entered a quarter-section of land in Yolo County, near Buckeye, now Winters. Following farming there about ten years, sold out, went to New York and to Europe on a visit to his old home. Returned to Sacramento in 1867 and bought 640 acres four miles east of Elk Grove, and followed agriculture there about eighteen years. In 1880 he again visited Europe. A year and a half after returning he sold his farm and moved into Sacramento and resided here one year. Then, in 1885, he bought Swiss Station, on the upper Stockton road, about a mile and a quarter from the city limits, and this is his present residence. The ranch contains 119 acres, and is devoted to fruit and grain; twenty acres are in grapes. Considering what little he had to start with, the expenses he has incurred in visiting distant countries, etc., it is indeed a wonder how well he has managed. He is a member of Schiller Lodge, No. 105, I. O. O. F., of Sacramento. His children are: Fritz, Emma, Amelia and Gustave.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 652. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.