Sacramento County
Biographies
PETER B. GREEN
Peter B. Green was born in Bretzenheim,
in the Rhein province
of Prussia, his parents being
Philip and Christina (Yaeger) Green. His
grandfather, Joseph Green, was over seventy when he died, and his grandmother
Green was well advance in years when she died, through an accident. P. B.
Green was educated in Prussia.
He left home direct for California in 1858, on the ship
Triton, via Cape Horn, and arrived in San Francisco in
1859, whence he came to a point on the Sacramento River near
where Courtland now is, and went to work on a farm. In 1862 he went to
school at Walnut Grove, to perfect himself in the English language. In
1864 he tried mining in Inyo and Mono counties, and also did some mining at Aurora,
in the State of Nevada. He
helped to form the county of Inyo,
was appointed justice of the peace at Inyo, and was afterward elected his own
successor in 1867. He studied law for a time, and also took a course of
instruction at E. P. Heald’s Business
College in San Francisco,
and worked for a commission house in that city in 1869 and 1870. Mr.
Green settled permanently on the Sacramento River in
1871, and by different purchases he became the owner of the place he now
occupies on “Randall Island.” which is no longer an island, though when first
he saw it in 1859 there were perhaps twenty feet of water in the slough which
formed its southern water front. His land is well adapted for fruit
culture, and that is his chief industry. He has erected on his place a
handsome residence of fourteen rooms, making a very comfortable and elegant
home. Mr. Green was married October 17, 1871, to Cynthia L., daughter of
Austin and Mary Ann Sims, and a native of Greene County,
Illinois. Her (Mrs. Green’s) parents
reside at Courtland. Both were born in Kentucky
in 1805, and are well preserved both mentally and physically. Mr. and
Mrs. Green are the parents of six children, of whom five are living viz.:
Delma, Ulmer, Bernice, Boyd and Lestenna.
Both parents, with their children, attend the service of the Richland Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County,
California. Page 541. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2006 Karen Pratt.
Sacramento
County Biographies