Guide to the Volle Family Collection, 1838-1978

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Guide to the Volle Family Collection, 1838-1978

California State Library

Sacramento, California

Contact Information:

California History Room
California State Library
Library and Courts Building II
900 N. Street, Room 200
P.O. Box 942837
Sacramento, California 94237-0001
Phone: (916) 654-0176
Fax: (916) 654-8777
Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/

Processed by:: The California State Library staff
Encoded by:: Xiuzhi Zhou

Descriptive Summary

Title: Volle Family Collection,

Date (inclusive): 1838-1978

Box Number: 2027-2029

Creator: Volle Family

Repository: California State Library

Sacramento, California

Language: English.

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Volle Family Collection, California State Library.

Access Points

Citrus Heights (Calif.)--History

Germans--United States

Parks--California--Sacramento

Rusch, Frederick H., 1881-1977

Rusch, Julia M., 1878-1973

Rusch Park (Citrus Heights, Calif.)

Rush family

Volle, Frederick W., 1824-1888

Volle, Julia Dora, 1829-1916

Volle family

Contents

Family papers including correspondence, greeting cards, business papers, newspaper clippings, diary, graduation and birth announcements, wedding invitations, Golden Sheaf Awards, deeds, naturalization paper, wills, newspapers, photographs, and genealogy notes.

Biography

The Rusch and Volle families were pioneer residents of Citrus Heights, California. According to family records, Ernest Heinrich Volle and his family emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1846 and settled in Evansville, Illinois. In 1851 their son, (August) Frederick W. Volle married Julia Dora Heimroth, a native of Elberfeld, Germany. In 1853 Frederick and Julia journeyed to Sacramento, California by covered wagon. In 1858 they moved to Center Township (Citrus Heights, Calif.) and established a 480-acre ranch.

Herman H. Rusch emigrated from Prussia in 1868. In 1872 he married Louisa M. Volle in Sacramento. In 1916 their children, Frederick Herman and Julia Matilda Rusch, inherited 320 acres from their grandmother, Julia Volle. In 1950 the Rusches donated 15 acres of the land to establish Rusch Park.

Correspondents

Bleckman, Martin
Citrus Heights Senior Citizens Club
Lauppe, Ethel
Lyon, Shirley
Steinmetz, Adeline
St. Angelo, Lillian Salat

Material Transferred from the Collection

Certificate

Baptism: Rusch, Louisa Dora

Oil painting

Rusch, Louisa M. Volle

Photographs

Bleckman, Martin
Blueher, Lizzie
Brown, Lorena
Brown, Orin
Bum, Lily Rusch
Burgett, Belle
Burgett, Will
Demuth, Gladys Gardner
Fertig, Mrs.
Gardner, Albert
Gardner, Frank Albert
Gardner, Julia Volle
Gardner, Leroy
Gum, Glen
Gum, Irwin
Gum, Lily
Gum, Wilma
Heimroth, Ann
Heimroth, Henry
Heimroth, Herbert
Heimroth, Ida
Heimroth, Jules
Heimroth, Louie
Heimroth, Sam
Heimroth, Ted
Heimroth, William
Hoehner, Mr.
Hoehner, Mrs.
Holfilter, Emma
Larson, Myrtie Gardner
Lauppe, Charles
Lauppe, Sadie
Miller, Mrs.
Peck, Ada Lauppe
Pilcher, Alice
Pilcher, Bertha Rusch
Pilcher, Lester
Pilcher, Ruth
Pilcher, Will
Risley, Victoria
Rusch, Amelia
Rusch, Fred
Rusch, Grover
Rusch, Herman H.
Rusch, Julia M.
Rusch, Laura
Rusch, Louisa Volle
Rusch, Will
Salat
Salat, Dominicus
Salat, Will
Sanders
Sanders, Carrie
St. Angelo, Mr.
Strader, Verna Lauppe
Thomas, Rosemary
Valinricous[?], Maggie
Volle ??
Volle, Avis
Volle, Cary Sylvester
Volle, Charles
Volle, Emma Brown
Volle, Eunice
Volle, Fred
Volle, Julia
Volle, Lena
Volle, Reuben
Volle, Viola

Box Box 2027

Incoming correspondence

Greeting cards

Business papers

Certificates

Clippings

Box Box 2028

Diary

Ephemera

Genealogy notes

Memorials

Box Box 2029

Legal papers

Newspapers

Photographs

Sylvan Recollections

Miscellany