Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE PETERS
GEORGE PETERS, rancher, was born on one
of the Azores Islands, April 26, 1833, and was reared
upon a farm. In 1848 he emigrated to the United
States, landing in New York;
but he followed the life of a sailor for four years on American
vessels. He then left Boston on board the clipper New
Flying Fish for California, landing in San
Francisco and arriving in Sacramento
in the fall of 1852. Here he found employment in a flour warehouse, at a
salary of $8 a day, and remained there two months. For
the ensuing fourteen years he followed mining, with some success. In 1865
he purchased his present ranch of 140 acres of choice river land on the Sacramento,
six miles south of the city. It is the best in his neighborhood, and is
devoted to general farming and stock-raising. He was married November 12,
1862 to Belle Nevis, and they have six children: Joseph, Anton, Manuel, Belle,
Eliza and Mary.
Transcribed 9-6-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Page 627.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.