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My father, John Gerard Klumpke, American citizen who was born on February 26, 1825, in Suttrup, an English province, was raised in New Orleans, where he went to College and followed professional courses, as it was usual a long time ago in the colonies. He also followed courses in medicine.
He was intelligent, thriving, healthy and hard-working. He moved to the Far West at the age of 24, during the Californian 'Gold rush'. However, he quickly left the 'prospectors', in order to buy and sell real estates in San Francisco. The professional courses which he had followed, as well as the medical knowledge he had acquired, were very helpful to him in this early time in San Francisco.
He was registered on August 20, 1850, as one of the first 'territorial pioneers' and member of the 'Vigiland Society' of San Francisco. He lived there for nearly 70 years and died on December 16, 1916, at the age of 93, with full intelligence capacity. He had seen the extraordinary development of San Francisco, which was only a small Spanish mission on dunes when he had arrived in 1849. Until his death, he was considered by his fellow citizens as a first-class businessman, as the man who best knew the history of San Francisco, and who was always called for when there were conflicts or discussions about land trade.
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