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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 OALIFORNIA. 427
Red Hill mines.
Lodge, F. & A. M.
William Vollmers, with whose name this
sketch commences, was reared in Weaverville.
In 1876 he went to Virginia City, Nevada,
and after some four or five months there, during
which time he was engaged as clerk in a hardware store and afterward in a butcher shop, he
returned to Weaverville. He engaged in mining one season, then entered the employ of
Morris Gritin. the banker, after which he served
one year as Postinaster. He then bought the
Trinity Center Hotel, and the ranch of sixty
acres belonging to it, and he has managed
these interests since 1881.
Mr. Vollmers was married in this county,
March 27, 1881, to Miss Lucy Allison, a native of Nevada County, and daughter of
Edward Allison. They have five children,
viz: Arleta, Otto, Alberta, Jefferson and
Adella. Mr. Vollmers is a member of Trinity
Lodge, No. 27, F. & A. M., and of the A.
O. U. W., at Weaverville, and is also Vice
Grand of Comet Lodge [. O. O. F., Trinity
Center. He is an enterprising, active man,
and though comparatively young in years is
@ prominent figure in the county. As a member of the County Board of Supervisors he
has made a very creditable record.
SEE ee
RBRETER DECKER, deceased. It is common
4 in after years for communities, not less
than nations, to remember and record with
special interest and honor the lives of their
founders. It is a natural and laudable sentiment, for in most instances such honors are
well bestowed. There are some whose efforts
have been so prominent and whose successes
have been so assured in the work of giving
vitality and character to the community of
which they form a part, that they meet with
the ready acknowledgment which their fellowcitizens of the present give to unusual efforts
bearing unusual fruits.
He was a member of Trinity is found largely mingling with the pioneer element of California, and such a man was Peter
Decker. He follows the scenes of his business
career, and sees on every side evidence of prosperity which he aided in founding and developing.
Peter Decker, son of M. Decker, was born
November 29, 1822, on the Manada, West Hano
ver, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. His ancestors on both the paternal and maternal sides made
enviable reputation in the early days of America, and served long and honorably in the Revolutionary army. Living on his parents’ farm,
Mr. Decker early acquired the habit of industry, and had instilled into him that erystal integrity which has been so instrumental in placing
him in the van of his fellows. He remained in
Dauphin County attending school until 1838,
when he, with his family, removed to the then
far West, and located in Columbus, Ohio, where
his elder brothers had previously located. He
attended Covert’s Academy for Young Men in
that city for a time; and it may here be noted
that one of the teachers in that model academy
was Lorenzo Sawyer, then a young student in
the oftice of Justice Noah H. Swayne, and now
and for some time past the able Judge of the
United States Circuit Court of California. Mr.
Decker later obtained a thorough knowledge of
the business in the establishment of A. S.
Decker & Bros., and Decker & Eberly, dealers
in general merchandise, in which store his elder
brothers were the principal partners.
When the Califurnia fever” broke out, he,
being animated with a spirit of adventure, assisted in organizing a company of thirty men,
of which he was secretary and treasurer, and
Hon. John Walton, president. They lett
Columbus early in April, 1849, via Cincinnati,
St. Louis, St. Joseph, Forts Kearney, Laramie,
and I[all, entering California through Carso1
Cafion. The mules nsed by the company were
too young for the service in that emigrantcrowded wilderness, and only endured the trip
because all hands walked most of the way to
Such a class of men . lighten the loads, and of course had to take