Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

HERMAN REHERMANN

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Agricultural life has ever had an attraction for Herman Rehermann, 
who is now located on his fine home ranch of fifty acres near Loma Station, 
Sutter County, a portion of the John Griffith place, which he acquired form the 
heirs in 1912 and on which he has since resided.  He was born at Istrop, in 
Westphalia, Germany, on October 13, 1864, the youngest son of Norbert and Teresa 
(Myers) Rehermann, also natives of the same place.  Norbert Rehermann was the 
owner of a fine farm of 160 acres at Istrop, and was a man of influence in his 
community; besides conducting his farm profitably, he served as justice of the 
peace.  This worthy couple were the parents of seven children, five sons and two 
daughters.  Herman Rehermann received a good education in the schools of Germany 
and was graduated from the agricultural school at Warburg.  At the age of twenty 
years he was foreman of the farm property known as the Hindenburg Estate, 
consisting of 5000 acres; on this farm he learned the profession of veterinary 
surgery, and followed it with success until he came to the United States.  About 
1889, Mr. Rehermann left his native land with a party of his countrymen, who 
later settled in Sutter County, where they have done well.  Mr. Rehermann 
stopped in Dubuque, Iowa, and visited with friends, and in 1890 arrived in 
Marysville, Cal.  He found employment on the Berg ranch and remained there for 
ten years, two years of the time being spent as foreman.  In 1898 he was a 
member of a party of three who made a trip to the Klondike, spending eighteen 
months in the frozen North, for he struck a good vein of ore about 100 miles 
north of the Arctic Circle, which he later sold to good advantage.
            At Sacramento, December 26, 1912, Mr. Rehermann was married to Miss 
Mary Schmidt, a native of Westphalia, Germany, where her parents were also born 
and where her father still resides.  In 1909 Mrs. Rehermann accompanied her 
sister to California; her sister and brother-in-law live near Watsonville, Cal., 
where they are engaged in dairy, hay and vegetable farming.  Six children have 
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rehermann:  Teresa, Fred, Joseph, Herman, Jr., Mary, 
and Norbert.  Thirteen acres of Mr. Rehermann�s ranch is set to prunes and 
peaches; and the balance is devoted to alfalfa, grain and dairy farming.  He is 
a member of the California Prune and Apricot Association and the California 
Canning-Peach Growers� Association.  Recently he has put in a ten-ton scale on 
his ranch at Loma Station, which is used by the ranchers in the locality, and 
has also improved the corner on the Chico highway with an up-to-date service 
station, which he leases to a responsible party.  In politics, Mr. Rehermann is 
a Republican.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1325-1326