California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


CLARENCE ALBERT BERNHARD.� The Ukiah Farmers Club, In- 
corporated, of which Mr. Bernhard is the secretary and the inception of 
which was due in no small degree to his enthusiastic co-operation, dates its 
existence from February 14, 1911, when a few farmers held a meeting for the 
discussion of matters of moment to them. Fifteen attended that first meet- 
ing, among them being three schoolteachers. At the meeting Mr. Mower, 
principal of schools, was elected temporary chairman and Mr. Bernhard 
secretary. Seven days later the second meeting was held and forty-one 
farmers attended, when J. C. Johnson and C. A. Bernhard were chosen chair- 
man and secretary respectively. The club grew steadily in size and influence. 
During November of 1911 a committee was appointed to determine upon a 
plan of incorporating. On the 11th of December the Ukiah Farmers Club 
was incorporated with J. C. Johnson president and C. A. Bernhard secretary. 
A start was made in a rented building, but in 1913 the present property was 
purchased for $10,000. From a small beginning the trade has increased 
steadily until now the business approximates more than $150,000 per year, 
which remarkable result is due to the intelligent and tactful supervision of 
the leaders of the movement, among whom is the first and present secretary, 
Mr. Bernhard. Besides his official connection with the Club the latter owns 
and manages a ranch of three hundred and twenty acres seven miles west of 
Ukiah, where he has planted fifteen acres to apples, pears, prunes and peaches, 
the whole forming an orchard of excellent promise for future profits. 

Born in Allegheny county. Pa., in 1872, Clarence Albert Bernhard is a 
son of J. C. Bernhard, for years a resident of Minneapolis, Ottawa county, 
Kans.. and now living retired at Lawrence, that state. Primarily educated 
in public schools, he completed the studies of the classical course in Campbell 
University at Holton, Kans., from which he graduated in 1894. On coming 
to California he engaged for three years as teacher in the University of the 
Pacific at San Jose, where he was at the head of the commercial department. 
Next he went to Stockton as head of the business practice department in the 
Stockton Business College. During the two years spent in Stockton he 
bought the ranch in Mendocino county that he still owns. About 1899 he 
organized a commercial department in the Yreka high school, one of the first 
of its kind in the state and the forerunner of many similar successful depart- 
ments in high schools. For three years he conducted the commercial classes 
at Yreka and then organized the commercial department in the Ukiah high 
school, which he conducted for eight years, resigning in July, 1912, in order 
to devote his entire attention to the secretaryship of the Ukiah Farmers Club. 
His family consists of two children, Sylvia and C. A., Jr., and his wife, who 
is a native of Atchison county, Kans., and bore the maiden name of Nettie 
Evans. In politics he votes with the Democratic party and takes a warm 
interest in all public movements. Fraternally he is identified with the 
Foresters.