Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

HARRY CONRAD LANGE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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An enterprising and progressive citizen who is much interested in the 
development of Yuba City is Harry Conrad Lange, who was born near Grand Island, 
Hall County, Nebr., November 11, 1884.  His parents were Henry and Katherine 
(Hake) Lange, natives of Indiana.  His father served in Company K., 27th Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry, and after the war he settled in Hall County, Nebr., and 
homesteaded land.  Mr. and Mrs. Lange were blessed with nine children: Anna, 
Elizabeth, Maggie, Joseph, Mamie, Jerry W., Herman, Harry Conrad, and Katherine.
Jerry W. and Herman Lange first came to the Golden State about 1901 and settled 
at Roseville, and in 1906 our subject came and also settled there; the rest of 
the family came to Sacramento.  After working for wages at Roseville for about 
fifteen months, Harry Conrad Lange went to work in the Southern Pacific railroad 
shops, at Sacramento, where he remained for five years.  Mr. Lange then leased a 
dairy of 900 acres on the Booth and Reid ranches near Slough House and kept 
about seventy-five milk cows and seventy-five additional stock.  After 
conducting this dairy for about three years, he moved to Yuba City.  In 1915 he 
purchased a forty-acre orchard five miles west of Yuba City.  This orchard bears 
prunes, peaches and almonds, and Mr. Lange has installed a four-inch pump for 
irrigation, and uses besides the water from the Sutter Canal.
Harry Conrad Lange was united in marriage with Miss Bessie Reid, at Sacramento, 
on October 28, 1919.  She was born at Sacramento, a daughter of A.M. and Helen 
(Booth) Reid.  Her father came from Scotland and settled in California when he 
was a young man, and for years was identified with the Sacramento Street 
Railway.  He is now a retired rancher.  Miss Reid was educated at the rural 
district schools in Sacramento County.  Mr. and Mrs. Lange�s union has been 
blessed with a son, Douglas Conrad.  Mr. Lange is a Republican in national 
politics.  He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, of Marysville.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 806