Tulare County Biographies

PHILLIP AULMAN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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Another of those good German citizens who have so nobly done their part in the 
development of California was Phillip Aulman, who came to the state in 1855 and 
died at Visalia, Tulare county, in July, 1910. Born in the Fatherland in 1827, 
he came to America when he was twenty-two years old and, in 1849 he settled in 
Iowa and engaged in farming. After six years there he came across the plains to 
California, where he put in his first twelve months at mining, meeting with 
indifferent success in the venture. Subsequently he turned his attention to 
farming and dairying near Suisun, Solano county, and later he operated in the 
vicinity of Gilroy, Santa Clara county. At length he went back to Iowa, farming 
there until 1864, when he went to Oregon and Washington, and there prospered as 
a dairyman. He came again to this state in 1869 and lived for a time in the 
Packwood district, Tulare county, whence he subsequently moved to the vicinity 
of Visalia, which was his home for many years, and where his widow now resides. 
There he engaged in dairying and developed a farm of a hundred and sixty acres.
In 1850, five years before he started overland from Iowa to California, Mr. 
Aulman married Miss Parthenia E. Hughes, a native of Indiana, born in 1833. Her 
experiences enable her to relate many interesting incidents of their trip across 
the plains. She is one of the dependable business women of Tulare county, 
recognizing all responsibilities and discharging all obligations, carrying out 
very ably the plans made by her late husband for the conduct and improvement of 
the home interests.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 527