Tulare County Biographies

HENRY A. SCHLOTTHAUER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        The White Plumage Poultry Farm and Hatchery at Venice Hill, eight miles 
east of Visalia, California, is owned by Henry A. Schlotthauer, who was born in 
1874 in the valley of the Volga river in Russia, of German parentage. When he 
was about a year old his parents, Adam and Maria (Schmidt) Schlotthauer, came to 
America and located on a farm in Marion county, Kansas. There Henry grew up and 
obtained a practical education in the public schools. Later the family removed 
to eastern Washington and still later to the Barstow district, near Fresno, 
California, where Adam Schlotthauer passed the closing years of his life. At all 
these places in the United States he was a prosperous farmer.
        Henry A. Schlotthauer remained at home with his parents until his 
marriage. In 1910 he bought one hundred and forty acres of wild, uncultivated 
land, where he now lives, and spent thousands of dollars in improvements. For a 
few years he followed dairy farming and then engaged in the poultry business. 
Having more land than necessary for this line of activity, he sold all of his 
original purchase except ten acres. He has never been very much interested in 
fancy breeding of chickens but confines himself more to the commercial end of 
the poultry farming, to which the White Leghorns are best adapted, which he has 
learned by experience are good producers, of both eggs and young chickens for 
market. His hatchery turns out from twenty-five to thirty thousand marketable 
baby chickens every year, besides the seven to ten thousand he retains for his 
own use. He has three thousand laying hens constantly and has certainly 
demonstrated his success as a poultry raiser, being one of the largest in Tulare 
county.
        Mr. Schlotthauer was married to Miss Katie Siegfried, who was born in 
Russia but of German descent. She came to Washington as a young girl with her 
parents and was educated in the public schools. Their eleven children are all 
living, in good health, and it is a source of congratulation that he has never 
had to pay a doctor's bill. Of these children, Annie is Mrs. Thomas Anderson, of 
Visalia ; Daniel is in Bakersfield ; Eugenia is Mrs. Charles Roemer, of Visalia 
; Paul is in Santa Cruz ; Walter is at home ; Mary is Mrs. Pementel of Niles, 
California ; Wenona is a nurse in the Glendale Sanitarium, Glendale, California 
; Viola, Bernice and Eugene are students in the Exeter high school and Juanita 
is attending the grade school. The family belongs to the Seventh Day Adventist 
church, in which Mr. Schlotthauer was formerly an elder.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 407