Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE C. NEED.
GEORGE C. NEED--A large landowner and prosperous dairyman of the Galt district is George C. Need, who has spent all his life in his native county. He was born on July 2, 1873, on the Need ranch northwest of Galt, his parents being George and Sarah (Eiler) Need. The father came with his parents from his birthplace in Bavaria, Germany, to the United States when only four years old. They settled in Indiana; and there Mr. Need engaged in grain and stock-raising before coming to California, where he became one of Sacramento County's influential ranchers.
George C. Need attended the Grant district school in his boyhood and remained on the old home place until his marriage in December, 1912, to Miss Agnes Wegat, the daughter of August and Mary Wegat, who are represented on another page of this history. In 1914, 474 acres of the home place was set aside for Mr. Need and here he erected a comfortable home and farm buildings and made other improvements and it has since been the family home. Here he is extensively engaged in raising stock, having an average of 100 head of feeding stock, and he also has a fine dairy herd of eighty cows. Mr. Need also has an interest in the Need estate, which comprises some 2,000 acres of land north and west of Galt. Mr. and Mrs. Need are the parents of two sons, George Henry and Lloyd James.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 632. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.