Never married.
He was born and raised on the farm, attending school during the winter months. After a season's work at Illinois Wesleyan University to qualify himself for teaching, he taught two years in McLean Co., Ill., then in company with George B. and Chester Rowell he started for California. They left Atchison, Kansas, April 12, 1865, each man driving a wagon with six mules, carrying freight to the West. In their train were thirty wagons, and each man was armed with a Winchester repeating rifle. In crossing the plains they were at all times in danger of attack by Indians, and one night narrowly escaped a marauding band, which wiped out the train at the first camping place beyond them on the trail. On July 5, 1865, they arrived at Salt Lake City, having been nearly three months on the way. Here the three boys bought a span of mules and a wagon, laid in a grub-stake or provisions, and started to the mountains prospecting for gold and silver. Nathaniel soon became tired of the prospector's life, sold his interest to the Rowell boys, and took the first stage for California. Upon arrival at San Jose, Cal., he at once began to teach, his first certificate being issued in Santa Clara County on Jan. 5, 1866. At the State Examination of teachers held at San Francisco Jan. 28, 1867, he received a state certificate, and on June 9, 1868, he received a life State Educational Diploma. He met his death by accidental drowning in the Bay of San Francisco near Alviso, Cal., where he was engaged in teaching at the time. [History of the Gerberich Family in America]
He was born and raised on the farm, attending school during the winter months. After a season's work at Illinois Wesleyan University to qualify himself for teaching, he taught two years in McLean Co., Ill., then in company with George B. and Chester Rowell he started for California. They left Atchison, Kansas, April 12, 1865, each man driving a wagon with six mules, carrying freight to the West. In their train were thirty wagons, and each man was armed with a Winchester repeating rifle. In crossing the plains they were at all times in danger of attack by Indians, and one night narrowly escaped a marauding band, which wiped out the train at the first camping place beyond them on the trail. On July 5, 1865, they arrived at Salt Lake City, having been nearly three months on the way. Here the three boys bought a span of mules and a wagon, laid in a grub-stake or provisions, and started to the mountains prospecting for gold and silver. Nathaniel soon became tired of the prospector's life, sold his interest to the Rowell boys, and took the first stage for California. Upon arrival at San Jose, Cal., he at once began to teach, his first certificate being issued in Santa Clara County on Jan. 5, 1866. At the State Examination of teachers held at San Francisco Jan. 28, 1867, he received a state certificate, and on June 9, 1868, he received a life State Educational Diploma. He met his death by accidental drowning in the Bay of San Francisco near Alviso, Cal., where he was engaged in teaching at the time. [History of the Gerberich Family in America]
Never married.
He was born and raised on the farm, attending school during the winter months. After a season's work at Illinois Wesleyan University to qualify himself for teaching, he taught two years in McLean Co., Ill., then in company with George B. and Chester Rowell he started for California. They left Atchison, Kansas, April 12, 1865, each man driving a wagon with six mules, carrying freight to the West. In their train were thirty wagons, and each man was armed with a Winchester repeating rifle. In crossing the plains they were at all times in danger of attack by Indians, and one night narrowly escaped a marauding band, which wiped out the train at the first camping place beyond them on the trail. On July 5, 1865, they arrived at Salt Lake City, having been nearly three months on the way. Here the three boys bought a span of mules and a wagon, laid in a grub-stake or provisions, and started to the mountains prospecting for gold and silver. Nathaniel soon became tired of the prospector's life, sold his interest to the Rowell boys, and took the first stage for California. Upon arrival at San Jose, Cal., he at once began to teach, his first certificate being issued in Santa Clara County on Jan. 5, 1866. At the State Examination of teachers held at San Francisco Jan. 28, 1867, he received a state certificate, and on June 9, 1868, he received a life State Educational Diploma. He met his death by accidental drowning in the Bay of San Francisco near Alviso, Cal., where he was engaged in teaching at the time. [History of the Gerberich Family in America]
He was born and raised on the farm, attending school during the winter months. After a season's work at Illinois Wesleyan University to qualify himself for teaching, he taught two years in McLean Co., Ill., then in company with George B. and Chester Rowell he started for California. They left Atchison, Kansas, April 12, 1865, each man driving a wagon with six mules, carrying freight to the West. In their train were thirty wagons, and each man was armed with a Winchester repeating rifle. In crossing the plains they were at all times in danger of attack by Indians, and one night narrowly escaped a marauding band, which wiped out the train at the first camping place beyond them on the trail. On July 5, 1865, they arrived at Salt Lake City, having been nearly three months on the way. Here the three boys bought a span of mules and a wagon, laid in a grub-stake or provisions, and started to the mountains prospecting for gold and silver. Nathaniel soon became tired of the prospector's life, sold his interest to the Rowell boys, and took the first stage for California. Upon arrival at San Jose, Cal., he at once began to teach, his first certificate being issued in Santa Clara County on Jan. 5, 1866. At the State Examination of teachers held at San Francisco Jan. 28, 1867, he received a state certificate, and on June 9, 1868, he received a life State Educational Diploma. He met his death by accidental drowning in the Bay of San Francisco near Alviso, Cal., where he was engaged in teaching at the time. [History of the Gerberich Family in America]
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