Yolo
County
Biographies
LAWRENCE IMMOOS
Lawrence
Immoos, who is numbed among Yolo county’s energetic,
progressive and successful dairy farmers, was born on a farm in the central
part of Switzerland on the 29th of August, 1891, and there attended
the public schools. When fourteen years
of age he was hired to tend cows, at a wage of two dollars and a half a week,
board and room. When eighteen years old
he emigrated to the United States, going to Fruitvale,
Alameda County, California, where one of his uncles lived. He went to work in a dairy and at the same
time devoted himself strenuously to the task of learning the English language,
of which he had no knowledge when he crossed the Atlantic. Later he went to Sacramento, where he was
employed in a dairy for a while, and then to Wheatland, where he ran a dairy of
his own and made cheese for five years.
Selling out there, he located in Esparto, Yolo County, where he rented a
seventy-five acre dairy farm, which he ran for twelve years. Two years ago he bought his present ranch of
forty acres, a well improved and productive farm, on which he raises fine crops
of alfalfa, keeps twenty head of Holstein cattle and has a nice flock of
turkeys. He sells his milk to the
Crystal Dairy.
In
Fruitvale, California, Mr. Immoos was united in
marriage to Miss Rosa Schuler, who also is a native of Switzerland, and they
are the parents of four children, namely:
Bertha, the wife of G. Keiser, of San Francisco; Elisa, aged sixteen
years; Frank and Freda. Mr. Immoos is a member of the Swim Club of Sacramento. He has worked hard here during the past
twenty years and his record has gained for him and admiration of those who know
him and who appreciate his sterling qualities.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Pages 84-85. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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