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 HENRY H. KRAMER, JR. � One of the progressive voting ranchers living; in the vicinity of Sanger and owner of forty acres of land three miles west of that town is Henry H. Kramer. Jr. His father. Henry Kramer. Sr., is a native of Russia, born February 5, 1872, about seventy-five miles from Saratov, a son of Jacob Kramer, who married Katrina Tripple. Jacob Kramer died when his son, Henry, was twenty-one years of age. Henry at- tended the German schools in Russia and also learned to speak the Russian language, and when he was twenty years of age he married Margretha Schrader, and this union was blessed with five children : H. H.. Jr. ; Mina, the wife of August Scheibelhut, a rancher near Sanger; John, Willie and George, Henry Kramer, Sr., remained on his father's farm in Russia until he was over twenty years of age when he went to work on a ten-thousand-acre farm owned by Meyer Bros. By hard work he soon rose to the position of fore- man, remaining with the owners for nine and a half years, when he wanted to resign and leave for America, but was persuaded to remain with them four years longer. In 1908, however, Mr. Kramer, accompanied by his family. sailed for the United States via Liverpool, landed in New York City, and thence continued their journey to Visalia, Cal.. where they had a relative. There Mr. Kramer was employed in a brick yard for three years. He then came to the vicinity of Sanger, purchased forty acres three miles west of Sanger, on North Avenue, built a comfortable home and improved the place by planting vines and trees. H. H. Kramer, Jr., was born August 1, 1893, in the valley of the Volga River, Russia, and accompanied his parents to California in 1908, being then about fifteen years of age. The family arrived in Visalia, Cal., on October 15 of that year, and on January 1, 1912, H. H. Kramer, Jr., moved to Fresno County where he became owner of a splendid ranch of twenty acres, it being half of the land owned by his father and given to the son. This property he sold in May, 1919. Mr. Kramer rents 200 acres of land whereon he successfully operates an extensive vineyard and has become one of the largest growers of raisins in this section of the county, employing eight men regularly and during the packing season, thirty-five extra persons. After selling the home place Mr. Kramer bought forty acres adjoining on the north- east, where he will make his home. On February 1, 1914, H. H. Kramer, Jr., was united in marriage with Miss Christina Winter, daughter of Karl Winter, a sketch of whose life will be found on another page of this history. This happy union has been blessed with three children : Clara. John, and Alvena. Mrs. Kramer is a devoted mother and an excellent helpmate to her husband, who is a man of splendid character and business ability. The family is held in high esteem.