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 
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OTTO P. HEMMINGSEN. � Denmark has sent some good men to Amer- 
ica and among those who have made good records for themselves, is Otto 
Hemmingsen, who came to Fresno County in 1906. He was born in Stege. 
Island of Moen, Denmark, in 1876, and was educated in the public schools 
until he was fourteen, when he was apprenticed to a butcher in the town of 
Nestred, where he worked at the trade for four years. March 1, 1904, marked 
an epoch in his life, for on that day he left for America in a White Star liner, 
landing in Boston but coming on to Chicago. Here he was variously em- 
ployed for two years, and in the fall of 1906 he came to Fresno County and 
was engaged at once at his trade in Fresno. He remained here until 1908 
when he embarked in the business at Kearney Park, where he stayed for ten 
months when he sold out and went to Clovis, buying a market already estab- 
lished, continuing there until October 3, 1914, when he sold and located in 
Rolinda. Here he bought out the meat market of H. O. Bowen, improving 
and enlarging the business, adding a slaughterhouse and a large refrigerator 
plant. He has three trucks for delivery and covers a large territory. He 
owns ten acres of land which he devotes to grain-raising but will set to vine- 
yards. He is renting pasture and feeding cattle for his own butchering. 

Mr. Hemmingsen was married to Miss Anna Petersen, a native of Den- 
mark. He is a member of the Danish Brotherhood, is a successful business 
man, liberal and enterprising, occupying a high place in the estimation of his 
neighbors.