History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 160

Author: Armor, Samuel, 1843-; Pleasants, J. E., Mrs
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1700

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and blasted out the stumps with dynamite, for it was a timber slashing. He produced some wonderful crops from the land, and also engaged to clear land from the stumps for others under contract, clearing in all over 300 acres. After farming successfully for many years, in 1906 he decided to come to California, and he landed in Anaheim. Six years later he located on his present property and is content to remain here.

In 1884 Mr. Hartman married Miss Eline Sitzeman, a native of Wisconsin. They have had ten children, seven of whom survive: Matilda, Mrs. August Schumacher; Frederick, a railway mail clerk in Arizona; Theodore and Edward are ranching to- gether; Alfred, Emiel and Madeline are still at home. Theodore served as a member of the Three Hundred and Sixty-eighth Field Artillery in France and for his excellent record was made a corporal. Mr. Hartman is a member of the Fullerton Walnut Growers' Association, and both himself and wife belong to the Zion Lutheran Church in Anaheim. They are Republicans and have a large circle of friends who appreciate their worth as citizens.

EDWARD M. DOZIER .- The Garden Grove Citrus Association is fortunate in having an able secretary and manager in the person of Edward M. Dozier, who not only possesses unusually good business judgment, but has also an extensive and thor- ough knowledge of the citrus industry. He was born in the state of Iowa, near Argonia, Hardin County, June 19, 1878, and is the son of Thomas E. and Caroline Dozier, natives of North Carolina, who emigrated from Iowa to California in 1885, when their son Edward was seven years old. These parents had three sons: Ray is married, has three sons, and lives in Los Angeles County; Edward M., and Ernest. For some years the father has been in the real estate business at Orange, where he has made his home for the past fifteen years.

The Garden Grove Citrus Association was organized November 3, 1915, with Mr. J. O. Arkley as its president. It has grown steadily since its organization, and the first year shipped ten and one-half carloads of fruit, the second year thirty-seven car- loads were shipped; in 1919, 107 carloads, and, in 1920, 175 carloads. The association employs upward of thirty-five hands, its building covers nearly an acre of ground, and has 9,750 square feet in its ground floor. The association has everything in its favor in possessing the trees, the fruit and the right kind of men behind it, to make it an unprecedented success. Milo B. Allen is now president, and has an able second in the popular secretary and manager. . Mr. Dozier bought nineteen acres of raw land which he, himself, set to oranges and walnuts, owned the ranch thirteen years and sold in January, 1920, at a handsome advance over the purchase price.

Mr. Dozier's marriage, which occurred in 1904, united him with Miss Elva Boden- hamer, daughter of John and Mary Bodenhamer, and their union has been blessed by the birth of three sons: Paul Melvin, Leslie Myron and Stanley Robert. Mr. Dozier is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Garden Grove.

LOUIS ABACHERLI .- One of the largest dairymen of Orange County is Louis Abacherli of Hansen Station. His dairy consists of 200 head of three-quarters Holstein stock, and in addition to this he owns 100 head of young heifers. In each herd he has a sprinkling of Jerseys to raise the quality of the milk. His ranch embraces 200 acres and he produces almost 3,040 pounds of milk per day, which he markets in Los Angeles. He installed modern milking machines and employs two milkers.

Mr. Abacherli is a native of Switzerland, where he was born in the Canton Ob- walden, May 28, 1872. He is the son of Joseph and Josephine (Ambiel) Abacherli, who were the parents of four children, three of whom are living, Adelheid and Theresa being the daughters. Louis is the only one in the United States. Accompanied by his wife he came to this country in November, 1912, and when they came to Orange County they settled at Los Alamitos. In 1915 Mr. Abacherli leased his present ranch of Mrs. Hansen of Long Beach, and he has built up a successful and prosperous business through his own efforts, being well qualified for an undertaking of this magnitude. He also leases considerable land, having in 1920 about 800 acres, 110 acres planted to beets, the balance being in barley, corn and alfalfa.

Mrs. Abacherli is also a native of Switzerland, and before her marriage, which occurred on November 25, 1894, she was Rosalia Abacherli, the daughter of Balz and Mary (Rathlin) Abacherli. Four children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Abacherli, and three of them are living: Arnold, Louis and John, all living at home. Rosalie, the eldest child, died aged twenty-one years, November 20, 1916. They took a little girl, Helen Ambiel, when five months old, and are rearing her as one of their own children. She is six years old and is attending school. The family are members of the Roman Catholic Church of Anaheim.

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AUGUST LEMKE .- A good ranch manager, prudent alike as to his investment of money and time, who is not only a lovable father and an ideal husband, but is also in every respect a public-spirited citizen, is August Lemke, the walnut and citrus fruit grower, owning a handsome ranch-his home place-of twenty acres on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard, two and a half miles northeast of Olive, in one of the choicest and most promising sections of Orange County. He was born at Liptno in Russia Poland on February 13, 1874, and there attended local schools in which he was taught to read both the Russian and the German languages. He was also confirmed in the German Lutheran Church there. His parents were Carl and Minnie (Zoidtke) Lemke, both natives of Russia Poland, in which country they married. He was a farmer and attracted by the greater opportunities in the United States, came to America and the Golden State. They had five children, all of whom are still living. Mrs. Lemke passed away in California in 1900, and her husband is still enjoying life, at the age of seventy- three, in the home of our subject. When Carl Lemke left Russia in 1886, he sailed for New York, and then spent a couple of months in Philadelphia. On arriving in Cali- fornia in 1887, he went to Placentia; and such was his remarkable industry, that in two years he was able to send money back to Russia, to pay for the passage of his two sons, William and Angust.

The young men then sailed from Hamburg and landed in New York City in January, 1890. They were also not long in reaching Placentia, where they went to work immediately as farm hands. They were a year and half in the service of the Santa Fe Asphaltum Company, making asphaltum pipe, and building culverts, and then August Lemke worked for nine months as a section hand at Olive, at $1.25 a day. For two and a half years, also, he was zanjero for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Com- pany, but otherwise, he has always been employed at ranch and orchard work.

On November 3, 1896, Mr. Lemke voted for William McKinley, and having per- formed one good deed, the next day he was married to Auguste Lemke, also a native of Russia Poland, who came to California on January 1, 1890. Her parents Christian and Julia Meilke Lemke, were farmer folks in their native country. Christian Lemke migrated to the land of the Stars and Stripes in the fall of 1888, intending if he liked it to send for his family. After stopping a few months in Denver, Colo., he came on to Anaheim where his three brothers, Charles, August and John, were residing, and here his wife and five children joined him in January, 1890. He engaged in farming, eventually improving a ranch of twenty-five acres on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard, where he resided until his demise in March, 1909, being survived by his widow, who resides in Olive. This worthy couple were the parents of eleven children, eight of whom are living, Auguste being the oldest of all; she came to Orange County when she was twelve years old, thus having the satisfaction of completing her education in the Placentia and Orange schools. Seven children blessed this union: George K. C. Lemke was in the U. S. Navy during the late war, was honorably discharged, and is now at home. A twin brother, John Benjamin H. Lemke, married Ada Schmadeke, ot Iowa, and assists his father on the ranch. Alma, the third in the order of birth, is the wife of Walter Timken, the rancher, in the Olive precinct, and has one child, Law- rence. Emil A. E. Lemke attends Concordia College in Oakland, and Minnie, Edwin and Arthur are at home. One child died at birth.

Endeavoring to be thoroughly consistent in religions matters, Mr. Lemke helped to organize the Lutheran Church at. Olive, and now serves that useful body as one of its trustees. He has also been elected justice of the peace for Yorba township four times and is now serving his fourth term in that office-and while a Republican in mat- ters of national politics, is a good nonpartisan "hooster" in and for everything that per- tains to the development and advancement of Orange County. He helped to start the First National Bank at Olive, and is one of its stockholders, and is also a member of Olive Hillside Groves Association at Olive. Besides his fine home ranch, he owns two other ranches in the same canyon-one of seven acres devoted to Valencia oranges, and a third ranch of thirteen acres devoted to Valencias and walnuts.

HERMAN LEMKE .- An honest, studious, hard working and self-reliant rancher. who has become a highly respected citizen, is Herman Lemke, who owns eleven and a half acres of as fine and well bearing land, planted by himself in 1906, 1908 and 1916, as can be found anywhere in Orange County. He was born in Russia-Poland on Sep- tember 22, 1880, one of a family of nine children, eight of whom-four boys and four girls-are still living, and is the eldest son, and the second eldest child of the widow. Julia Lemke, who owns an excellent ranch of eleven acres in the Yorba precinct, hut lives in Olive, enjoying life at the ripe age of sixty-three. The father of our subject, Christian Lemke, died in his fifty-sixth year at the home ranch in the Yorba precinct. The parents were both born and married in Russia-Poland, and came to California with their five children in 1890. They settled first at Placentia, then went to Orange 53

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for a couple of years, and next lived for five years at Villa Park; from which place Mr. Lemke came to the Santa Ana Canyon and bought his twenty-six acres of barley stubble land, which he set out and improved.

The lad Herman attended the German Lutheran School at Orange and the gram- mar school at Placentia, at the same time that he worked on his father's ranch. He also served for three years in Company E of the Anaheim Home Militia. He was married in 1906 to Miss Emma Kolberg, a native of Orange and a daughter of the late Wm. Kolberg, the rancher; her mother, Joanna (Beske) Golberg died in 1912. Since marrying, Mr. and Mrs. Lemke have built a house on their ranch three miles northeast of Olive on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard, and they have continued active as mem- bers of the Lutheran Church at Olive. In national politics a Republican, Mr. Lemke lends his most cordial support to every good local movement and in doing so, excludes partisanship altogether.

Progressive to a high degree in every way, Mr. Lemke uses a Cleveland tractor, and a Buick roadster. He informs himself as to the latest scientific methods, and so operates according to the most approved and up-to-date ways. Naturally, he has not only succeeded in his own affairs, but he has pointed the way to others.

ROBERT LEMKE .- The identification of the Lemke family with the development of the agricultural interests of Orange County dates back to 1890, when Christ and Julia (Mielke) Lemke, immigrated from Russia-Poland to the United States and settled near Olive, Cal., where Mr. Lemke purchased twenty-five acres of land. He followed ranching in this section until 1909, when he passed away. His widow still resides at Olive. Mr. and Mrs. Lemke were the parents of nine children: Herman, Augusta, Millie, Ernest, Robert, Lena and Gustaf, twins, Henry and Tillie.

Robert Lemke, the subject of this review, was born. in .Russia-Poland, February 8, 1888, and when in his second year he was brought by his parents to America. He was reared in the neighborhood of Olive and attended the splendid public schools of Orange, from which he subsequently graduated. From boyhood he had always followed farming and he now owns and operates a splendid ranch of ten acres on South Magnolia Avenue, near Anaheim, which he devotes to Valencia oranges. His trees range from three to nine years of age, the place formerly being known as the Kennedy ranch.

In 1917, Mr. Lemke was happily united in marriage with Miss Emma Paulus, a native of San Luis Obispo County, the daughter of David and Marie Paulus, born in Port Washington and Milwaukee, Wis., respectively, who located in San Luis Obispo County in 1888 and in 1908, moved to Orange County and there spent the remainder of their days. One son, Elmer H., has been born to them. Mr. and Mrs. Lemke are members of the Lutheran Church at Olive, and politically, Mr. Lemke is a supporter of the Republican party. He is recognized as one of the successful ranchers of his com- munity, where he is held in high esteem for his integrity of character.

MANLEY C. CHASE .- A resident of Cypress, well known throughout Orange County, not alone because of his business dealings, which were extensive, but also because of his sterling worth as a citizen, is Manley C. Chase. A native of Maine, he was born at Bingham, Somerset County on May 16, 1852, the son of Calvin S. and Martha J. (Andrews) Chase, both old residents of Maine, where the father died in 1855, when Manley C. was a lad of three years. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Chase, two of whom, Manley C. and his sister, Mrs. Mary Hollister, are residents of Orange County. Mrs. Martha Chase married for her second husband, B. J. Hanna- ford, and soon after they went to Pawnee County, Nebr., where they lived and where Mrs. Hannaford died in 1868. She had six children by this marriage.

In 1861, M. C. Chase located in Waupun, Wis., then seven years later he went with the family to Kansas. He later spent some time in Mexico, 1891 to 1894, when he was a director in the Kansas Investment Company, under whose improvements the American Colony was fostered. The work of the company was to develop water for the colonists. In those days conditions were fairly well settled compared to the present, and American capital was finding its way there in the development of a number of projects. While living in Kansas, Mr. Chase served as a deputy sheriff of Osborn County, also as a constable. He has always been intensely interested in school matters and served as a trustee for many years.

For about twenty-five years Mr. Chase has been interested in drilling water wells in California and Nevada. For a few years he was in partnership with Dr. Gobar, though he personally superintended the work in hand. He has sunk many wells that have meant so much to the settlers in both states where water is "king." Since settling in California he has been an eyewitness to the wonderful changes that have been enacted in Southern California and has profited by the increase in land values.

Unfortunately, however, in the year 1918 Mr. Chase met with an accident which incapacitated him for active service in the field of work to which he had given so many

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years of his time and endeavor, but he at once turned his attention to the poultry business at Cypress, where he has lived since 1912. He has a thriving flock of a thousand fowls, equally divided between Rhode Island Reds and White Leghorns. He has suffi- cient land to raise all the green feed necessary for his flock, and buys grain by the carload for feeding. He formerly owned a forty-acre ranch north of his present resi- dence, but this he sold in 1918.

In 1879 Mr. Chase was united in marriage with Miss Sarah L. Reed, a native of the state of Missouri, the daughter of Levi and Mary Reed, and three daughters have blessed their home: Nellie, Mrs. S. J. Scally, living in Orange County; Stella, wife of J. A. Hollingsworth of this county; and Luella, wife of M. W. Sawdey, and they live in Anaheim. Mr. Chase is a man who stands high in the estimation of his fellow citizens, rising, as he has, by his own efforts, coupled with honesty and integrity.

JOHN W. STUCKENBRUCK .- A well-known and highly respected citizen of Orange County who, as a pioneer at Newport Beach, has the utmost faith in this resort for the future and is therefore influential frequently in inducing others to share his optimism and to pitch their tents in this most favored spot, is John W. Stucken- bruck, who was born in Mansfield Ohio, on December 31, 1852, and was taken to Iowa when he was two years of age by his parents, Frederick and Jane (Sperry) Stucken- bruck. For the second time his mother became a widow, and she is now living, in good health and active, at Lodi in her ninetieth year.

Mr. Stuckenbruck grew up in Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa, remaining home until seventeen years of age and then worked two years on farms and after that for seven years clerked for one man, J. L. Sherman, the storekeeper at Tipton in that state. There, too, he was married to Miss Alice D. Wirick, a native of Iowa who died at Tustin twenty-seven years ago, esteemed and beloved by many as an excellent woman, a devoted mother of two children. Eva E. became Mrs. A. J. Hadley, the rancher at Tustin, and the mother of three children-Emma, Johnny and Woodrow W .; while Allie May is the wife of B. C. Killifer, the section foreman for the Salt Lake Railroad Company, an old and trusted employe at Pasadena. They have one child, Allie May.

When Mr. Stuckenbruck came to Newport Beach in 1887, it was only a sand- spit; and the next year he worked for James McFadden, then a butcher, and drove the meat wagon and attended to customers in the meat market. Now he owns the building where the Newport Restaurant is located, and also the house at the rear, and he will soon put in a substantial store building with a brick front. In making such an invest- ment as this, he is giving proof of the faith long in him that Newport Beach has natural attractions, and enjoys a superior location bound to make it one of the great summer and winter resorts along the Coast, as it is now the favorite with those familiar with its advantages. He was elected and served as the first city marshal of Newport Beach, and he is now the oldest settler living here, having been here many years before the town was started.

HENRY G. HEINEMANN .- Not everybody has been able to bring along to California such a neat sum as that of Henry G. Heinemann, $35,000 available, when he migrated hither from Nebraska, nor has everyone shown equal courage and common sense in investing what he had at Olive, among the most rapidly developing communi- ties of promising Orange County. Now he owns an excellent orange ranch of nine- teen acres under a high state of cultivation, and lives in a beautiful new, up-to-date bungalow. erected in 1920 at a cost of some $5,000. He was born in the ancient town of Oldenburg, the capital of the grandduchy of that name, not so very far from the seaport of Bremen, on October 26, 1860, the son of Henry G. Heinemann, a well-to-do farmer who had married Miss Elise Looschen. They lived and died where they had established their comfortable home. They had ten children, among whom Henry was the fourth child and the second son.

He enjoyed a common school, but excellent education, and was brought up in the German Lutheran Church. For a while he worked at farming on the home ranch, and after that entered the service of a distillery at Delmenhorst, in time coming to know how to distil himself. About that time some friends, who had been in America visited his home town; they were very enthusiastic about the United States, and such was the effect of their reports upon him, that when twenty-eight years of age, Mr. Heinemann decided to cross the ocean himself. This decision was made in face of the fact that he had always done well at home, and had valuable connections there. He had become an accountant and scrivener, for example, in a local government office, and had, besides, a three-year military service and training. He attended an officers' training school, and rose to the rank of sergeant in the German army. He was, therefore, well up on military science and tactics. During the late war, he had a brother-in-law and seven- teen nephews among the Germans, and four nephews were killed and six wounded.

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Mr. Heinemann sailed from Bremerhaven on the steamship "Saale" of the North German Lloyd, and landed at Castle Garden in New York on March 1; 1889. He came on west to Hooper, Nebr., and for two years worked out as a farm hand, for three years rented land, and after that bought there 240 acres. In Nebraska, too, in 1891, he was married to Miss Gesine Rehling, also a native of Oldenburg, who was nine years old when she came to America accompanied by her parents. They were August and Margaret (Bulter) Rehling, and her father was a blacksmith. She saw New York for the first time in 1881, and after her ninth year, grew up in Dodge County, Nebr.

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Heinemann farmed in that state, and by very hard work, prospered so that they became owners of a well improved and very valuable Nebraska farm of 240 acres. Having borne the burden and heat of such labor under the vicissitudes of the Nebraska climate for so many years, Mr. Heinemann's health broke down, as he became a sufferer from asthma and rheumatism. He made his first visit to California in the spring of 1908, with the intention of establishing a home here, but the conditions in Orange County were so radically different that he became homesick for Nebraska, to which state he returned and continued for a year and a half.

In the fall of 1909, however, his thoughts were again directed Cailfornia-ward, and he speedily sold his excellent farm of 240 acres to a neighbor for $110 per acre, and in December of that year came out to California with his entire family, and settled at Olive. He bought twenty-four acres, in reality two places, at Olive, and immediately began making substantial improvements. In 1919, he sold five acres of his holdings, and during the same winter made preparations to build a beautiful bunga- low residence, to cost $5,000. It was completed in 1920.

In October, 1903, Mr. Heinemann returned to Germany and paid a visit to his old home at Oldenburg. His father was then dead, but his mother was alive at the age of seventy-five. She lived to be ten years older, and passed away in July, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Heinemann have five children: August, the rancher of Orange, married Amanda Guenther; Ella is the wife of August Matthes, who recently came to reside in Orange County, moving from Nebraska, where he has a fine farm of 640 acres; Freda married Walter Lieffers, the rancher, and lives near Orange; William H. is the husband of Fanny Wurl, and is a farmer in Cheyenne County, Nebr .; he served in the late war. and was honorably discharged from military service; George A. Heineman is at home.

In national politics a Republican, it is as a thorough American that Mr. Heine- mann works to elevate civic standards, and to promote public-spiritedness. He loves the adopted country of his choice, and has endeavored to do as much for it, as it has done for him; and no citizen could set before him a more laudable or practical ideal.

A. F. STOHLMANN .- An honest, capable, self-made and successful citrus rancher is A. F. Stohlmann, who is also a clever and experienced carpenter, well known for his activity in local affairs, particularly in his support of the various loan drives and other campaign movements in the recent war. He was born at Williamsburg, Iowa, on January 10, 1883, the son of Frank Stohlman, a native of Germany, who came from Europe direct to Williamsburg in the far-away spring of 1867. He bought 160 acres there, and set to work, in accordance with his native industry and sagacity, to bring it up to a high state of cultivation.

Soon after his arrival here, too, Mr. Stohlmann married in Iowa, Miss Lenora Kleinmeyer, also a native of Central Germany, but one who came out to the United States with her parents when she was a mere girl. Together, they formed a model home; and Mr. Stohlmann became one of the very successful farmers of the Hawkeye State, and when he had made his valuable contribution as a foreigner to the develop- ment of the great American West, he passed on to his eternal reward, at the rather ripe age of sixty-six.

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History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 160

Author: Armor, Samuel, 1843-; Pleasants, J. E., Mrs Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co. Number of Pages: 1700

Author: Armor, Samuel, 1843-; Pleasants, J. E., Mrs
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1700