Butte County
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SAMUEL LUTHER ENTLER
SAMUEL LUTHER ENTLER.--Among those
citizens of California closely
allied to her farming and fruit interests is Samuel L. Entler,
familiarly called "Lute" Entler, an
old-timer in the region where he lives and a successful farmer and
horticulturist. Mr. Entler was born in Shepherdstown,
Jefferson County, Va.,
January 25, 1854. The father, Jacob Entler, was born there and was a hotel man and butcher. He
died in 1856.
Samuel
Entler was the youngest child and was reared in the
town of Middleway, in the upper
part of the Shenandoah Valley. The boy's education was
limited on account of the war and he began to work on a farm at an early age.
Mr. Entler later moved onto a farm in Berkeley
County, Virginia, where he
lived from 1862 until 1875. Ambitious and desiring to better himself, Mr. Entler come to California, arriving
in Chico, April 22, 1875, and was employed on his
brother's (J. F. Entler) ranch for twelve years,
leaving only once, in 1884, when he made a trip to Virginia.
He was dissatisfied, however, and after only a six months' stay, he returned to
California, remaining with his
brother until 1888. Mr. Entler then leased land and
raised grain on the O. L. Clark place for seven years,
and on the Isaac R. Bennett place on Mud Creek for two years, then moving to
the place in Chapmantown, leasing land and farming
again. In 1901 he purchased nineteen and one half acres in the Bidwell tract,
two years later moving onto it and buying two adjoining plots of thirty-two and
twenty-one acres each. He sold the thirty-two acres and now has forty acres,
sixteen of which are devoted to a peach, prune, and almond orchard, the
remaining being in grain and alfalfa. Mr. Entler also
owns a tract of eighteen acres in the Pleasant
Valley school district, three miles
from the other properties.
Mr.
Entler was married in Oroville to Miss Mary Alice
Edwards, a native of Butte County.
Mrs. Entler died November 21, 1905, at the age of
thirty-nine. She was highly esteemed in her community and was an active member
in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Five children were born to them: Walter
Lawrence, a Sergeant in the One Hundred Fifty-ninth Regiment United States
Army; Edith May, Mrs. Scott of Chico; Lucile, Mrs Button of Chico;
Mary Alice, and Lourene Frances, both at home.
Mr.
Entler has a host of friends in his community, and is
an active promoter of any measure that is suggested for the growth of the
county. He is a Democrat and belongs to the Chico Lodge, No. 113,
I. O. O. F. Mr. Entler is a member of the California
Peach Growers Association and the California Prune and Apricot Association.
Transcribed by Sande Beach.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 521-522, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2007 Sande Beach.
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