Yolo County
Biographies
J. E. LaRUE
a farmer near Davisville, Yolo County, is a son of H. M. and Elizabeth (Lizenby) LaRue, and was born four miles from Sacramento, September 19, 1859. In 1870 he moved into Sacramento city, where he received his education, graduating in 1880 from the University of California at Berkeley with the degree Ph. B. He then went into Yolo County and took charge of his father’s farm near Davisville, a beautiful place of 2,100 acres, in which he now has an interest. There are ninety acres in grapes and sixty in almonds, but his attention is chiefly devoted to the rearing of horses and mules and grain-raising.
April 20, 1887, he was united in matrimony, in San Francisco, with Miss Addie E. Rankin, who was born in that city October 29, 1860. They have one child, born May 6, 1888, named Morgan E.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
GEORGE W. HEMENWAY
Postmaster at Winters, Yolo County, is a son of Henry B. and Eunice (Guild) Hemenway, the former, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1813, and died March 17, 1875; the latter, born in 1815, in Vermont, is still living in Wheaton, Illinois. George was born at Wayne, Illinois, thirty miles west of Chicago, June 17, 1842; graduated at the Commercial College at Wheaton, learned the trade of printer, and from the age of twenty-seven years to about thirty-six years he was a book-keeper in Chicago. In 1877 he moved to Lyon County, Kansas, and purchased a farm of 240 acres, which he improved until 1887, when he came direct to his present place of residence. On coming to California, he did not dispose of his Kansas farm, lest he might wish to return to it; but he is more than pleased with the Golden State, and his intention is to remain at Winters, where he has purchased a fine home and two stores occupied by A. Hazelrigg. He is at present Postmaster of the village, and ere this sketch is printed he will have established also a stationery store.
In 1869, in Chicago, he was united in matrimony with Anna P. Filer, a native of Illinois, and they have five children: Walter, born in 1817; Ella, 1873; Fred, 1875; Harvey, 1879; Jessie, 1887.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
HENRY CRANER
a merchant at Winters, Yolo County, is a son of Paul and Eva (Landsberg) Craner, natives of Prussia, and Henry himself was born in that country, in 1840. At the age of fifteen years he came by water to California, settling in Placer County three years, engaged in mercantile business in partnership with his brother, Julius, and for two years he was similarly engaged in Vacaville; then he started a store in Buckeye, Yolo County, the second store in the place. In 1875 the town of Buckeye was moved to Winters, and Mr. Craner went to Cottonwood (now Madison), and started a store there which he conducted until 1878, when he came to Winters, where he is now the proprietor of the leading mercantile house in the place.
April 15, 1882, in San Francisco, he married Rosa Lazarus, who was born in Prussia, in 1856, and they have one son, Arthur, born June 18, 1884.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
MRS. AGNES BEMMERLEY
proprietor of a farm in Yolo County, is the widow of John Bemmerly, deceased, who was born in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1824, and came in 1852 to California, crossing the plains with oxen and settling in Yolo County in 1853. He died August 8, 1872, a man well and favorably known throughout a large community. He left to his wife and five children 6,000 acres of land. He was married in this county, October 14, 1860. The children are Mary E., John F., Jr., Agnes H., William A. and Ernest A., all natives of this county.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler