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John Schumacher (about 1816–1885) was a German immigrant who became a wealthy landowner in Los Angeles, California, and was a member of that city's governing council. ==Personal== Schumacher was born in Germany about 1816 and died in Los Angeles on March 2, 1885, at the age of sixty-nine, of apoplexy, reported Harris Newmark, in his book ''Sixty Years in California.''〔("Pioneers Passing Away", ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 13, 1885, page 1 )〕〔 Newmark called Schumacher "A good-hearted, honest German of the old school, and a first-class citizen", who had come from Wurtemberg to America. Newmark wrote that Schumacher arrived in California with Jonathan D. Stevenson's 1846 expedition to California,〔 but a ''Los Angeles Times'' obituary of Schumacher's son, John, in 1885, stated instead that the elder John had been "one of (C. ) Fremont's veterans, who followed him in his historic trek to California."〔 Schumacher settled in Los Angeles in "1847 or 1848", Newmark wrote, and in 1849 he went to Sutter's Creek, where he "found a nugget of gold worth eight hundred dollars".〔(Harris Newmark, ''Sixty Years in California'' )〕 He returned to Los Angeles in 1853,〔 where he purchased "100 feet of ground on the west side of Spring street, just off First street and extending through Broadway."〔("Los Angeles Pioneer Dies", ''Los Angeles Times,'' October 10, 1926, page 2 )〕 In 1882 he built a two-story residence on Fort Street, between Franklin and First Streets.〔("About Town", ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 19, 1882, page 3 )〕 Schumacher was "proficient in languages, and as an interpreter, often gave his time and services in serving his less-gifted neighbors, particularly the poor and unfortunate, to straighten out their affairs."〔 He was married in 1855 to Mary Uhrie, and they had six children, including three sons, John, Frank G. and F.F., and a daughter, Carrie.〔〔 "The eldest daughter became Mrs. Edward A. Preuss." His wife died in 1880 when "at the railway station in Merced, she was jolted from the platform of a () car and was instantly killed."〔 The Schumachers bought one of the first pianos to be seen in Los Angeles, they having to be shipped from the East around Cape Horn. The family also owned a "spring wagon with a cover" made by local craftsman John Goller, which though "only a one-horse affair, but probably because of the springs and the top() which afforded protection from both the sun and the rain, it was looked upon as a curiosity."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Schumacher (Los Angeles pioneer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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