Alameda County
Biographies
HERMANN JASPER MOHR
HERMANN JASPER MOHR. A large
landowner of Alameda county is Hermann Jasper
Mohr, who was born on a part of the ranch which is now in his possession
November 7, 1869, a son of Cornelius Mohr, whose sketch is given in
that of his son, Henry P., which appears on another page. His boyhood
years were spent upon the paternal ranch and when about eleven years of age he
lost his father by death. On attaining the age of twenty-four years he took
charge of the estate, which consisted of eleven hundred acres in the valley and
three hundred and sixty acres near Pleasanton. About four years later the
property was divided and Mr. Mohr received for his share one hundred and
seventy-eight acres embodied in the home place, where he has since built a
beautiful residence and substantial outbuildings; another ranch of one hundred
and seventy-nine acres at San Lorenzo, thirty of which is devoted to orchard,
and one hundred and forty acres at Decoto, a part of which is valley land.
Since his possession of the property it has been leased with the exception of
one year. Mr. Mohr is a student; in 1898 he went to New York City and
entered Walworth Institute, where he was graduated the following year, when he
attended the Berkeley University School for one year. Following this he spent
one year in the Lyceum, in San Francisco, then a year in Cooper Medical
College. He pursued his medical studies no farther on account of trouble with
his eyes. For the past eighteen months he has been reading law, and with the
splendid knowledge and experience which his other studies have given him, bids
fair to be a light in the legal profession. He is a thorough business man, both
practical and theoretical, having taken a banking course in New York City.
September 23, 1898, Mr. Mohr married Louise Behrens, a
native of Shasta county, Cal., who had been a teacher
in this state for ten years and now holds a life diploma. In his political
affiliations Mr. Mohr votes according to the dictates of his own conscience.
Fraternally he is a charter member of Mount Eden Camp No. 346,
W. O. W. He was one of the organizers and a stockholder in the Eden
Creamery at Mount Eden, and also a stockholder of the Abalona
Packing Company of San Luis Obispo county, Cal.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard 25 October 2015.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages
814-817. The Chapman Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2015 Marie
Hassard.
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