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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 865
secretary of the Gold Hill Company. Mr.
Fletcher is married to Miss Farrell, and has
four children, two boys and two girls.
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HILIP TEUSCHER, prominent among
the old California pioneers of 1849, has
been a resident of El] Dorado County over
forty years, and has continuously followed mining since his advent into the State. Mr. Teuscher is a German by birth, born in Bavaria, .
September 4, 1827. He was reared in his native country until 1840, when his parents emigrated to America, locating at Akron, Ohio.
Here our subject learned the stone-cutter’s
trade and followed it until 1849, when he
started across the plains by the old emigrant
route to California. At Salt Lake City the
party rested for a week or ten days, and gave
the Mormons the first news of the election of
Zachariah Taylor as President of the United
States. Previous to this, however, our party
had met a company of Mormons going East .
with the mails. They had been attacked and
robbed of their provisions and stock by a band
of Crow Indians. When discovered by our
party they were descending the Platte River on
a rudely constructed raft. Our party gave
them clothing and provisions, and two days
later were attacked by the same Indians, but,
owing to superior numbers, repulsed the Indians without loss of life, and. lost only a few
head of stock.
days, hoping to surprise them, but our party
knew well their mode of warfare and gave them
no opportunity of advantage. Seeing that the .
emigrants were on thealert they finally withdrew.
On their arrival in El Dorado County, California, our subject, with two or three of his
former companions, engaged in mining at once,
but were not successful. They took a contract
for chopping saw-logs for the Sutter Mill, and
fulfilled it within six weeks. They purchased
provisions and an outfit, and again engaged in
. bachelors and reside together.
The Indians followed them four .
mining, this time on Weber Creek, when Mr. .
Teuscher was more fortunate, and for a time
took out from one to one and a half ounces of
gold dust daily. Of this he sent a portion East °
. to his brother, as previously agreed upon, to induce him to come West.
In 1861 Mr. Teuscher enlisted in the Fourth
Regiment of California Volunteer Infantry,
serving first as a private, next as a bugler and
_ later as a mechanic on detached service, for
which he received extra pay. He was engaged
in erecting ordnance buildings and other structures for Government uses, while at Fort Yuma,
with adobe or sun-burnt bricks, and Los Angeles, at which latter point he was discharged
in 1864,
He immediately returned to El Dorado
County, where he has since been engaged in
mining, although Mr. Teuscher and his brother
Daniel are joint owners of a nice little fruit
ranch of sixteen acres of good and productive
land on the bank of the American River, adjacent to the town of Coloma, and in full view of
the now famons monument of J. W. Marshall,
renowned for having been the firat discoverer
of gold at this place on January 19, 1848.
The parents of our subject were Philip and
Catherine Teuscher, both natives of Germany.
In all there were sixteen children, of whom our
. subject is the sixth. His father died in 1858,
and his mother the first year after coming to
America. They were long-lived and_ prolific.
Mr. Teuscher and his brother Daniel are both
The former isa
prominent member of the G. A. R., Post No.
108, of Placerville. Politically he is a Demoerat, and takes an active part in political matters. Daniel Teuscher attiliates with the F. &
A. M., Lodge No. 90, of Coloma. Politically
he is a Republican.
— See
ONATHAN L. WYKOFF, one of the old
J and respected pioneers of 1853, was born
¢ in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, December 8, 1826. When a lad of ten years he