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.
"[3] 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".
[4] 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 put on sale the first lager beer introduced into Los Angeles, importing the same from San Francisco, of which enterprise the genial German was proud; but Schumacher acquired even more fame for a drink that he may be said to have invented, and which was known to the early settlers as Peach and Honey.
[2]For a time in the late 1870s, Schumacher had a vineyard "opposite the site of the city gardens", and earlier he was in partnership with Jacob Bell in raising sheep.