HENRY J. ENGELMAN Born in Wolzgaja, on the River Volga, Samara, Russia, November 29, 1878, H. J. Engelman is now a resident of Fresno County, Cal., where he has improved a ranch of forty acres in the northwestern portion of the county and has set thirty acres of his land to Thompson seedless grapes and the balance is in alfalfa.
He is a son of Henry and Mary (Dabus) Engelman, the former a farmer in Russia before he came to the United States in 1903, when he landed in New York and remained there until 1915, when he came to Fresno County and is living retired. His wife died when her son and only child was but three weeks old.
Henry J. received a common-school education, grew to young manhood on a farm and on January 10, 1900, started for America, with Fresno as his final destination, in which city he arrived on March 6, that year.
He was young and strong and went to work at ranching, worked in various parts of the county, then for two years in the Craycroft brickyards, and one year in Prescott's brickyard. By 1909 he had saved up enough money to make a payment on a twenty-acre ranch thirteen miles northwest of Fresno, put it in alfalfa and began dairying. Four years later he sold his cows, the land being too valuable for dairy purposes, and set out thirty acres to Thompsons.
In the meantime he had made all the improvements for a comfortable home place, thereby setting an example for others.
Mr. Engelman was married on January 30, 1902, in Fresno, to Miss Christina Horgenrader, born in the same town in Russia as her husband, and they have ten children: Henry; Rosie; Katie; Edward; Emma; Mollie; Philip; George; Harry; and Theodore, all at home and growing into useful men and women. Mr. Engelman and his family are members of the Lutheran Church in Fresno, and he has been superintendent of the Sunday School in the Barstow branch of the church. He is a member of the California Associated Raisin Company, and in national politics is a Republican. He is well-liked and is an upright and honest citizen.
He is a son of Henry and Mary (Dabus) Engelman, the former a farmer in Russia before he came to the United States in 1903, when he landed in New York and remained there until 1915, when he came to Fresno County and is living retired. His wife died when her son and only child was but three weeks old.
Henry J. received a common-school education, grew to young manhood on a farm and on January 10, 1900, started for America, with Fresno as his final destination, in which city he arrived on March 6, that year.
He was young and strong and went to work at ranching, worked in various parts of the county, then for two years in the Craycroft brickyards, and one year in Prescott's brickyard. By 1909 he had saved up enough money to make a payment on a twenty-acre ranch thirteen miles northwest of Fresno, put it in alfalfa and began dairying. Four years later he sold his cows, the land being too valuable for dairy purposes, and set out thirty acres to Thompsons.
In the meantime he had made all the improvements for a comfortable home place, thereby setting an example for others.
Mr. Engelman was married on January 30, 1902, in Fresno, to Miss Christina Horgenrader, born in the same town in Russia as her husband, and they have ten children: Henry; Rosie; Katie; Edward; Emma; Mollie; Philip; George; Harry; and Theodore, all at home and growing into useful men and women. Mr. Engelman and his family are members of the Lutheran Church in Fresno, and he has been superintendent of the Sunday School in the Barstow branch of the church. He is a member of the California Associated Raisin Company, and in national politics is a Republican. He is well-liked and is an upright and honest citizen.
HENRY J. ENGELMAN Born in Wolzgaja, on the River Volga, Samara, Russia, November 29, 1878, H. J. Engelman is now a resident of Fresno County, Cal., where he has improved a ranch of forty acres in the northwestern portion of the county and has set thirty acres of his land to Thompson seedless grapes and the balance is in alfalfa.
He is a son of Henry and Mary (Dabus) Engelman, the former a farmer in Russia before he came to the United States in 1903, when he landed in New York and remained there until 1915, when he came to Fresno County and is living retired. His wife died when her son and only child was but three weeks old.
Henry J. received a common-school education, grew to young manhood on a farm and on January 10, 1900, started for America, with Fresno as his final destination, in which city he arrived on March 6, that year.
He was young and strong and went to work at ranching, worked in various parts of the county, then for two years in the Craycroft brickyards, and one year in Prescott's brickyard. By 1909 he had saved up enough money to make a payment on a twenty-acre ranch thirteen miles northwest of Fresno, put it in alfalfa and began dairying. Four years later he sold his cows, the land being too valuable for dairy purposes, and set out thirty acres to Thompsons.
In the meantime he had made all the improvements for a comfortable home place, thereby setting an example for others.
Mr. Engelman was married on January 30, 1902, in Fresno, to Miss Christina Horgenrader, born in the same town in Russia as her husband, and they have ten children: Henry; Rosie; Katie; Edward; Emma; Mollie; Philip; George; Harry; and Theodore, all at home and growing into useful men and women. Mr. Engelman and his family are members of the Lutheran Church in Fresno, and he has been superintendent of the Sunday School in the Barstow branch of the church. He is a member of the California Associated Raisin Company, and in national politics is a Republican. He is well-liked and is an upright and honest citizen.
He is a son of Henry and Mary (Dabus) Engelman, the former a farmer in Russia before he came to the United States in 1903, when he landed in New York and remained there until 1915, when he came to Fresno County and is living retired. His wife died when her son and only child was but three weeks old.
Henry J. received a common-school education, grew to young manhood on a farm and on January 10, 1900, started for America, with Fresno as his final destination, in which city he arrived on March 6, that year.
He was young and strong and went to work at ranching, worked in various parts of the county, then for two years in the Craycroft brickyards, and one year in Prescott's brickyard. By 1909 he had saved up enough money to make a payment on a twenty-acre ranch thirteen miles northwest of Fresno, put it in alfalfa and began dairying. Four years later he sold his cows, the land being too valuable for dairy purposes, and set out thirty acres to Thompsons.
In the meantime he had made all the improvements for a comfortable home place, thereby setting an example for others.
Mr. Engelman was married on January 30, 1902, in Fresno, to Miss Christina Horgenrader, born in the same town in Russia as her husband, and they have ten children: Henry; Rosie; Katie; Edward; Emma; Mollie; Philip; George; Harry; and Theodore, all at home and growing into useful men and women. Mr. Engelman and his family are members of the Lutheran Church in Fresno, and he has been superintendent of the Sunday School in the Barstow branch of the church. He is a member of the California Associated Raisin Company, and in national politics is a Republican. He is well-liked and is an upright and honest citizen.
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