Butte County
Biographies
C. M. HEIBERT
A successful rancher and rice-grower of Butte County, C. M. Hiebert was born in Germany and came to America with his parents, Martin and Ida (Riemer) Hiebert, when he was ten years of age. They settled in Henderson, York County, Nebr., where the father followed the trade of carpenter and builder until 1917, at which time he located on a farm he had bought in Louisiana. Of their six children he and his twin sister are fourth in order of birth, and he is the only one in California.
Reared in Nebraska, C. M. Hiebert received a good common-school education. As a lad he worked with his father at the carpenter’s trade and in time became a proficient workman. In York County, on September 23, 1903, he married Miss Ethel Meradith, born in that county, a daughter of George R. and Ida (Lape) Meradith, who are now living in Chico and of whom mention is made on another page of this history. Mr. Hiebert continued working at his trade and at farming in that county until 1911, when he came to Richvale, Butte County, Cal., to improve a twenty acre tract of land he had purchased in the Richvale Colony.
The following year Mr. Hiebert began growing rice and so successful was he that he has kept at that business ever since. Each year he has added to his experience and knowledge of the industry, as well as to the acreage planted, so that in 1917 he had some three hundred acres devoted to rice culture. This land was leased from the Dodge Land Company. His yield was heavy and bought a good price. Besides his own crop, he took care of three hundred acres adjoining, belonging to the company from whom he leased his land. He cared for the crop from the time it was put in the ground until it was hauled to the warehouse. The systematic manner in which he overcame obstacles and the care exercised in looking after the details of the business and the care of the crop were very pleasing to the company and they leased him land and secured his services to look after their own crop.
Mr. Hiebert has met with financial success, and in 1917 he purchased a beautiful bungalow home in Chico Vecino, on the corner of Esplanade and Valambrosia Street, where he and his wife reside. They are a congenial couple, enterprising, progressive and hospitable, and are widening their circle of friends in the county year by year. Mr. Hiebert was made a citizen of the United States in York County, Nebr., September 26, 1906. Politically he is a stanch Republican, and is a member of the Pacific Rice Growers’ Association.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1303-1304, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Joyce Rugeroni.
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