Imperial County, CA Biographies

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007.

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JOSEPH M. SCHEIBR
 
                    Joseph M. Scheibr has achieved success in life as a result 
of his own efforts. He has been upright in his business dealings and has now the 
respect and confidence of his neighbors and associates in his community. Mr. 
Scheibr was born in Switzerland in 1897. He acquired a limited education in his 
native land. He is a son of Jacob and Anna Scheibr. Joseph M. came to  America 
in 1903 and located in Minnesota. Here he found employment for some months and 
later, in 1904, he removed to Los Angeles, where he remained for two years and 
worked at the dairy business. In 1906 he came to Imperial Valley and worked out 
for fifteen months at dairying. He then bought thirty cows and rented land for 
four years at Imperial. He then came to the El Centro District, where he 
remained three years on one place. March, 1913, he moved his dairy string to his 
present place and purchased eighty acres with his brother, Ambrose, who was born 
December 28, 1881. Scheibr Brothers now have a string of fifty cows. The subject 
of this sketch was the first Swiss to locate in Imperial Valley, his brother 
coming to the country two years later. Joseph M. was the first Swiss to purchase 
cows and engage in the dairy business in Imperial County. The brothers are 
progressive and up-to-date ranchers and have a well appointed place.
 
Source: "The History of Imperial County, California," Elms and Franks Publ. Co., 
1918, pp. 422-423.