Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

LUDWIG M. LEHNER

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Thirty years of the life of Ludwig M. Lehner have been spent in the 
West, and at all times he has been a supporter of those interests which have 
been instituted for the benefit and upbuilding of the State and community.  On 
January 7, 1893, he arrived in Sutter County from Le Roy, Wis., and has since 
been identified with the development of this portion of California.  Since 1906 
he has been the owner of twenty acres five miles south of Yuba City, which he 
has set up to cling peaches and which has brought him lucrative returns for his 
labor and industry.  He was born in Bavaria, Germany, October 10, 1862, the 
fifth of a family of eight children born to Michael and Katherine (Perry) 
Lehner, both natives of Bavaria.  His ancestors were farmers and merchants, and 
were all successful from a material standpoint.  Michael Lehner passed away at 
the age of sixty-two , in 1887, his wife surviving him until 1912.
            Ludwig M. Lehner was educated in the public schools of Germany, and 
learned scientific farming at an agricultural college.  His first practical 
farming was done on his father�s ranch.  Mr. Lehner arrived in New York in 1889 
and went direct to Wisconsin, where he remained for four years.  He then came 
West and worked on the Berg ranch for two years, after which for seven years he 
was foreman for Robert Keck at Oswald Station.  He is a member of the Barry 
Center of the Sutter County Farm Bureau.
            The marriage of Mr. Lehner, which took place in Marysville, united 
his with Miss Rose Drake, a daughter of Isaac Drake, pioneer and well-to-do 
orchardist of Yuba City, now living retired.  Four children have been born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Lehner:  Ernest, assisting his father on the home farm; Mrs. Bertha 
Allen; Vera, the wife of Thomas Kerrigan of Yuba City; and Eloise, a student in 
the Marysville High School.  Mr. Lehner received his United States citizenship 
in Wisconsin in 1890, and cast his vote for President Cleveland; but he is now a 
stanch Republican.  He is public-spirited and has served two terms as trustee of 
the Barry school district.  Fraternally, he is a member of the Woodmen of the 
World at Yuba City and the Knights of Columbus at Marysville.  The family are 
members of St. Joseph�s Catholic Church, in Marysville.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p  907