Yolo County Biographies


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Ernest BEMMERLY
 
A worthy representative of one of the early and prominent pioneer families of 
Yolo county Ernest Bemmerly is upholding the record for genuine worth and 
stability borne by his predecessors, and Woodland has no more dependable citizen 
than �Sam� Bemmerly, as he is known and addressed by his most intimate friends.  
He was born near Blacks Station, Yolo county, March 10, 1873, the youngest of 
five children born to his parents, John and Agnes (Wimmer) Bemmerly.  Both of 
the parents were natives of Germany, the father born in Wurtemberg, February 24, 
1824, and the mother in Baden, February 2, 1833.  From the time that he came to 
California in 1852, until his death, August 8, 1872, the father was a resident 
of Yolo county, and here, too, the mother has been a continuous resident since 
1859.  An interesting sketch of this worthy couple may be found elsewhere in 
this volume.  
 
As will be seen by the dates above given, Ernest Bemmerly was born after the 
death of his father, and therefore he has no personal knowledge of that parent.  
In his mother, however, he had a most sympathetic friend and advisor, who gave 
him and to the four other children older than himself, every opportunity that 
lay in her power to make them worthy citizens.  Primarily educated in the local 
schools, Ernest Bemmerly completed his studies in St. Joseph�s Academy, Oakland, 
and in 1893 he began farming on his own account, making a specialty of 
stock-raising.  His first experience was in farming about two thousand acres of 
his mother�s land, and in gathering the crops he used a combined harvester and 
five eight-mule teams.  Later he bought land adjoining Dunnigan on the 
southwest, owning and farming ten hundred and twenty acres until 1911, when he 
rented the property and removed to Woodland, where he has a fine home and is 
interested in local affairs.  At Corpus Christi, Tex., he was married to Mrs. 
May West, a native of Refugio, Tex., and they have one daughter, Margaret Edith. 
 In his political affiliations Mr. Bemmerly is a Republican.
 
Transcribed by Bea Barton
Source:  �History of Yolo County, California� by Tom Gregory.  Published by the 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1913, pages 637 � 638.