Sutter County
Biographies
ULRICH ANTONE CAPAUL
An experienced, wide-awake and successful dairyman who well represents the general spirit of progress and substantial, permanent advancement now so characteristic of Sutter County, is Ulrich Antone Capaul, the dairyman of the Winship district. He is a native of Switzerland, born in Canton Graubünden or Grissons, on September 20, 1872. His father, John Ulrich Capaul, was a dairy farmer who lived all his life in Switzerland, and there died in 1905. He had married Miss Ana Casanova, and she passed away in 1917. They had seven children who grew up: John, the eldest, who was killed in a snow-slide when nineteen years of age; Ulrich, the subject of this sketch; Joseph; Mary, Mrs. Casanova, who died at Ferndale, in Humboldt County, where Dora, Mrs. Regli now lives; and Victoria and Martha, still in Switzerland.
Ulrich Capaul attended school in Switzerland, and at the age of twenty-one came to America and to California, settling in Ferndale, where he worked for wages for eight years, for the first year receiving only fifty cents per day. When he commenced to farm for himself, he leased seventy-five acres of land for two years; and after that he leased 160 acres of land for ten years, having seventy-five cows. He then came into Sutter County, in 1915, and bought forty acres of the Tisdale ranch, besides leasing forty acres of pasture. This ranch was open land, and Mr. Capaul developed it to alfalfa, also building a residence and other necessary farm buildings and putting in irrigation.
In 1906, Mr. Capaul returned to his old home; and there, in Canton Graubünden, on January 7, 1907, he was married to Miss Anna Meer, a native of the same place as our subject, and the daughter of Jack and Agnes (Walters) Meer. The father was an industrious, experienced and successful farmer, who enjoyed the respect of everybody. Anna Meer was the second of eight children in her parents’ family. Mr. and Mrs. Capaul have five children: John F., Agnes, George, Joseph, and Barbara. Mr. Capaul is a Republican.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1127