California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


LEE W. HEERMAN. � An ambitious young man who prefers the great 
outdoors is Lee W. Heerman, the youngest son of M. N. and Hulda (Carl- 
son) Heerman, both of whom are natives of Sweden. They were married at 
Monmouth, Ill., and came to California sixteen years ago, when they located 
first in Modesto, but having had their attention called to the advantages of 
Fresno County, they bought their present place of forty acres, which had at 
that time only a seven-acre orchard. It is six miles south of Selma, and three 
and a half miles southwest of Kingsburg, and now includes nine acres set out 
to Muir peaches, fifteen acres to seedless, seven acres to muscats, and two 
acres planted to alfalfa. The father and mother are still living, retired, at 
Santa Monica, the parents of four children: Ritz E., the eldest, who is in the 
employ of the Southern California Edison Electric Company, married Nellie 
Nelson, and resides at Los Angeles, and they have one child, Merle. Delia C, 
is the wife of E. Ed. Peterson, the assistant cashier of the Kingsburg Bank, 
and she is the mother of three children: Mae, Effie, and Eva. Anton G., the 
assistant cashier at the First National Bank at Dinuba, married Miss Billie 
Hadin. 

Lee W. Heerman, the subject of this sketch, was born on July 26, 1894, 
at York, Nebr., to which state his parents had moved from Illinois. After a 
while the family took the long journey to California and Modesto. In time, 
too, Lee reached Kingsburg, where he attended the grammar schools and 
then, for a couple of years, the Kingsburg High School. He next pursued, 
for a couple of semesters, a business course in accounting at a leading Los 
Angeles school, and at the same time studied music and the violin under the 
famous professor, L. F. Linn. 

Preferring the outdoor life of the rancher. Mr. Heerman at first leased 
his father's ranch of forty acres, with the option of purchasing it, which 
option he has since exercised by purchasing the ranch, on December 1, 1918. 
He is young, active and able, and already understands a great deal about 
horticulture and viticulture, he is making a record for success such as any- 
one of his years might covet. 

Mr. Heerman was married on December 14, 1918, at Kingsburg, to Miss 
Frances Swanson, a daughter of C. E. Swanson, a rancher two one-half miles 
from Kingsburg, where he has resided for almost thirty years. 

During the troublous times of the world war, Mr. Heerman early made 
it known where he stood, and that was in the support of his government and 
country, and in the endorsement of every movement making for the welfare 
of the nation, the state and the community.