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HENRY HAILE
HENRY
HAILE.--An Old-time rancher of the Sacramento Valley, who owned ranches in
several counties and is now a well-known stockman in Butte County, enjoying a
wide and pleasant acquaintance, is Henry Haile, a native of Gloucester,
England, where he was born in 1849. He was brought up on his father’s farm and
attended an English public school, and in the spring of 1872 came out to Canada.
Six months later he moved westward to California, stopping in Wheatland, where
he went to work on a farm; and at farm labor in the service of others he
continued until 1876, when he began to ranch for himself. In 1878, he rented a
farm and further extended his knowledge of California
soil and ways and means.
In
1880, Mr. Haile purchased his first ranch land at the corner of Placer and
Sutter Counties, just south of Wheatland on Bear River, and there he engaged in
raising grain and stock. He lived on that place until 1900; he had two thousand
two hundred twenty-five acres in one ranch, and three thousand acres in two
other places, in the same vicinity; also a ranch in Nevada County. About 1889
he began raising cattle and sheep and shipping them to San
Francisco. Finally, he sold out all his holdings to
the Natomas Dredging Company, keeping only the Nevada County Farm, and in 1900
he located to Chico, where he
engaged in razing sheep and cattle. In this line he continued until six years
ago when he retired. He is also interested in horticulture, and has fifty acres
set out to prunes, twelve miles north of town. Busy as he always is with his
own pressing affairs, he still has time for politics and his civic duties as a
progressive citizen, working especially according to Republican standards.
In
1911, with his family, Mr. Haile made a trip to England,
visiting his old home and traveling over the British
Islands and the Continent, to the Mediterranean.
On returning he visited the important cities in the United
States and Canada,
completing a four months’ interesting recreation.
At
Wheatland, Mr. Haile was married to Miss Jennie Brewer a native of Sutter
County and the daughter of a
pioneer of 1850. Two daughters have resulted from this union, both graduates of
Chico High School
and the Chico State Normal, namely: Irma, who is Mrs. Chester Cole, of Chico;
and Ina, who is Mrs. Winfield Dorn of San Francisco.
In February, 1874, Mr. Haile was made a Mason in Nicholas Lodge, No. 129, F.
& A. M.., of Wheatland, where he still holds membership. He is also a
member of Chico Lodge, B. P. O. Elks.
Transcribed
by Kim Buck.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1106-1107, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Kim
Buck.
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