Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

CHRISTINA HAGEMANN KRULL

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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That a woman may succeed, and quite as well as any man, in the difficult field 
of husbandry, is amply demonstrated by Christina Hagemann Krull, the well-known 
and widely-esteemed rancher, living about nine miles northwest of Yuba City.  
She was born in Sutter County, some three and one-half miles west of Live Oak, 
the daughter of John and Mary Ann Hagemann, the former a native of Prussia, and 
the latter coming from the old town of Oldenburg, also in Prussia.  Mr. 
Hagemann, before marriage, came out to California across the great plains, 
traveling with ox-team and prairie schooner.  Having first tried his luck at 
mining, he pitched his tent to the west of Live Oak.  He had 360 acres, and he 
cultivated and improved them with typical German intelligence and industry.  He 
was a blacksmith by trade; and so, while farming, he was able to render those 
within reach of him a practical service at the forge.  He died at the age of 
eighty-two, having been preceded to the grave by his devoted wife, who attained 
to her fifty-fourth year.
The eldest in a family of ten children, Christina attended the union district 
school, and later went to a convent in Marysville, at which town, in 1881, she 
was married to George Regli, a native of Switzerland, and for six years, or 
until he died, they lived happily at Marysville.  One son, Charles, sprang from 
that union.  On November 8, 1887, our subject married a second time, choosing 
Edward Krull as her husband.  He was born in Germany, came to the United States 
when he was thirteen years old, and lived for a number of years in Iowa, when he 
made his way to California.  Edward Krull had a farm of 375 acres, nine miles 
northwest of Yuba City; and there husband and wife made their hospitable home, 
until Mr. Krull�s death, on January 15, 1917.  Four children blessed this second 
union, William J., Mary A., Gertrude L., and Albert J. Krull.
Since her husband�s death, Mrs. Krull has continued to reside on the home place 
with her family, and to operate, in accordance with Mr. Krull�s successful 
plans, the valuable ranch devoted to vineyarding and to general farming; and it 
is interesting and suggestive to note her own progress, keeping pace, as she 
does, with the spirit of the times.  Mr. Krull was for years a trustee of the 
Union district school.  Mrs. Krull is a Democrat, never allowing partisanship to 
stand in the way of securing whatever is best for the community or section.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1202