Plumas County Biographies

Antone Bacher

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004

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was born January 6, 1832, at Baden, Germany. At the age of fourteen he left home 
to learn the baker’s trade, and after an apprenticeship of two years he worked 
as a journeyman for three years. In 1851 he came to America, and lived three 
years in Clinton county, Pennsylvania. He then removed to Jackson county, Iowa, 
where he bought a farm and lived on it seven years. In the spring of 1861 he 
came overland to California, arriving at Indian valley, Plumas county, September 
22, 1861. In the fall of 1865 he bought the Ross ranch, first containing 86 
acres, to which he has added 338 acres. In June, 1851, he was married to 
Elizabeth Weshing of Germany, and to them have been born the following children: 
Joseph, Andrew, Sarah, Albert, Frank, Levy, and George, all of whom are living.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 307