Butte County
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HENRY WAHL
HENRY WAHL.—Butte County has many men within its confines who are ably doing their bit toward helping to feed the nation, and it is to the farmers, the men who till the soil, plant and harvest the grain and other crops, that she looks in her hour of need. Agriculture has fast been coming into its rightful place and now stands out as the most important industry of all, the real backbone of the country. Henry Wahl, one of the county’s successful grain-growers, is doing his share in the world’s work, farming on an extensive scale on two large farms, on containing two hundred forty acres, where he and his family make their home, and one tract of one thousand acres, which he leases. The son of Albert Wahl, a Butte County pioneer, he was born on Ninth Street, in Chico, on June 28, 1885, and attended the public schools at Durham. At the same time he was being taught the rudiments of farm work on the home place, a training which has helped him materially in his own operations in later life, and which he has supplemented by a through study of modern conditions and methods of agriculture. In 1917 his wheat harvest averaged fifteen sacks per acre, and his barley from twenty-five to forty sacks per acre. In harvesting his crops Mr. Wahl uses a threshing outfit operated by a seventy-five horse-power tractor, and for his other farm work has all modern machinery and equipment. During the year 1917 he made many improvements, and even greater success is assured him in the future, his one object being progress toward bigger things. Although the son of one of the county’s substantial pioneers, Mr. Wahl has succeeded by his own industry and perseverance and is entitled to a place among the upbuilders of the district. His marriage, which occurred November 4, 1908, united him and Miss Lelia gray, a daughter of Frank and Addie (Hanscom) Gray, who was born October 27, 1889, in Dayton precinct, of which locality both her parents are pioneers. To Mr. and Mrs. Wahl have been born two children: Eldon and Earl.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1270-1271, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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