JACOB SCHULTZ

Sacramento County

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JACOB SCHULTZ

Jacob Schultz was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1851, his parents being Henry and Gesche (Wobeke) Schultz, both of whom are still living in Germany. Grandfather Schultz was about seventy at his death; and grandmother Eliza Schultz survived him many years, dying in 1859, aged eighty-two. Jacob Schultz received the usual education of his county between the ages of six and sixteen, working in the summer months when old enough, chiefly at farm work, which he continued until he came to America in his eighteenth year. He came direct to San Francisco, arriving in July, 1869, and thence to Sacramento, where he worked in a brick-yard two months. In October he went to work for a farmer in Sutter County at $1 a day for some months when he returned to the brick-yard for a season. In 1871 he came into Franklin Township where he worked on Mr. Kerth’s ranch at $26 a month for five years. In 1876 he rented the place he now owns from Mr. Korn, carrying on a dairy business with about forty cows and raising some cattle. In 1880 he rented the Stone place of over 1,100 acres, dairying with about eighty cows; about ten years in both places. In 1887 he bought the Korn ranch of 800 acres, just before the boom in farm lands. He runs a dairy as before, of about thirty cows, raises a few cattle for the market every year, and sows a few acres to barley. Mr. Schultz was married in Sacramento, April 6, 1883, to Miss Eliza Zarnig, who is also a native of Holstein, a daughter of Wilhelm and Anna (Kurtz) Zarning, both deceased, the father at the age of forty-eight and the mother at fifty-seven. They are the parents of Annie and Katie, twin sisters, born July 8, 1886.

Transcribed by Karen Pratt.

Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 534-535. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.

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