L.H. Sweitzer

L.H. Sweitzer -Was born in Iowa September 3,1838. When he was nine years of age his parents moved to Atchison County, Missouri. In 1849 he, with his parents, crossed the plains to California. The first year after arriving was spent in the mines. In the fall of 1850 they settled in Suisun Valley, and in 1862 the subject of this sketch began farming on his own account. This he followed in Solano County for five years, when he came to Napa County and settled in Berryessa Valley. After following the same business there for eight years he returned to Solano County, where he resided until 1879, when he returned to Napa County and settled on his present place, consisting of two hundred acres located in Pope Valley, where he is engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Sweitzer married, April 19, 1863, Miss Emma V. Stanton, by whom he has three children: Lewis H., born July 2, 1865; Charles H., born July 26, 1868, and Edith L., born February 21,1874.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February, 2007 Page 555

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