Butte County
Biographies
FRANK GEORGE FAUL
FRANK GEORGE FAUL.—Among
the successful business men of Butte County, at one time an important
stock-raiser and now a leading factor in the development of the freight and
hauling interests of the community, is Frank George Faul, the son of Jacob
Faul, the well-known pioneer whose life is sketched in the biography of Fred E.
Faul, immediately preceding in this volume.
Frank was born at Marysville, on May 22, 1859, and was educated in
public schools at Central House, Lone Tree and Union districts, and grew up
with his twin brother, Fred, attending school and tending the sheep
alternately, a week at a
time. With considerable difficult,
therefore, he obtained a book education, but his touch with the world was
practical and helpful, and when he embarked with his brothers in sheep-raising
and growing of hay and grain, under the firm name Faul Brothers, he was able to
hold his own.. They had a flock of over two thousand sheep, and a farm of four
hundred forty acres, which they rented, and in 1883 they sold their sheep and
dissolved partnership. They sold their
ranch in 1902.
After
laying off for a month, Frank hired himself out to W. A. Shippee for thirty
days, to care for his sheep ranch near Cottonwood, and
so satisfactory was his work that Mr. Shippee offered him sufficient inducements
to have him remain as his foreman for seven and a half years. During this time, he often had as many as
five thousand sheep under his charge.
On
March 3, 1889, Mr. Faul was married to Miss Mary Ann Gambrel, a native of
Covelo, Mendocino County,
where she was born in 1870. There, too,
she was reared and educated in the public school, but one day she came to visit
her sister, Mrs. Fred E. Faul, so Fred’s brother and she met, and they were
married. After his marriage, Mr. Faul
quit the service of Mr. Shippee, and returned to the old home ranch which he
rented and managed for six years. He
bought a flock of sheep, and soon had from two to three thousand head
there. He and his wife worked hard to
get started, and looked after everything themselves; she alone raised from five
hundred to seven hundred turkeys a year.
She had a pony and rode after them.
Later, they moved to Honcut, where Mr. Faul bought the residence and
home there, and had charge of the Gianella sheep, a responsibility he met for
five years. The range extended from
Knights Landing to Greenville, in Plumas
County, and the second year
witnessed the largest marking of lambs.
Until then the Gianella had only fifteen hundred lambs from over three
thousand two hundred ewes; but Mr. Faul succeeded with three thousand one
hundred fifty ewes in marking three thousand six hundred fifty lambs.
Leaving
the Gianella, he became foreman for T. W. Haines, on the old Dan Abbey ranch,
and for four years took charge of his sheep and turkeys. In April, 1904, however, he bought a place on
Pomona Avenue, in Oroville,
and since then he has been engaged in teaming, hauling chiefly for the various
dredging companies. For five years he
performed this service for the Oroville Electric Corporation; for three years
he was with the Goldrun Company, and since then he has been hauling for
different companies in the winter time and during the summers following haying
at Chester, Plumas
County, where each year he spends
four months. In the meantime, Mrs. Faul,
with characteristic enterprise, runs a bake shop, supplying the campers, store
and hotel at Chester with
bread. She has built a handsome
residence, and enjoys a profitable business.
The rest of the year is spent at 316 Bridge
Street, Oroville.
Six
children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Faul: William died in his seventeenth year, while
Frankie died when only twelve years old.
Henry is a barber in Chico. Ruth, now Mrs. Roy Herbert, of Oroville, and
Rachel, who died in her eight year, were twins; and Mildred is the youngest of
the family. Mr. Faul is a Republican,
and belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose.
Mrs. Faul is a member of Women of Woodcraft, in which, for five years,
she has been installing officer.
As
has already been said in the interesting sketch of Fred Faul, such an
astonishingly close resemblance between the twin brothers exists that
frequently one has been mistaken for the other with very amusing results. Even such intimate friends as William
Greenleaf, a life-long associate, and Mr. Shippee, his employer, failed to
distinguish them, nor has this resemblance decreased materially as the years
have gone by.
Transcribed by Chris
Worley.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1069-1070, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2008 Chris
Worley.
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