California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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J. A. SCHLOTTHAUER.� One of the prime movers in the organization 
of the San Joaquin Valley Milk Producers Association is J. A. Schlotthauer. 
He and his wife worked hard to lay aside a certain competency; and one of 
their first investments was a course for both in a business college. Now Mr. 
Schlotthauer, ably assisted by his wife, has made for himself an enviable 
reputation as an orchardist and viticulturist who both understands how to 
grow and how to sell. 

Mr. Schlotthauer was born in Marion County, Kans., on September 17, 
1881, the son of the Rev. George Adam Schlotthauer, who was a clergyman 
of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. In 1889 he removed with his family 
to the State of Washington and settled near Colfax, in the Palouse country, 
where he farmed at the same time that he preached the Gospel. In 1903 he 
came to California and bought twenty acres near Easton in Fresno County. 
He set out a vineyard and an orchard, and he still remained faithful in his 
ministry. He had three charges � at Exeter, Dinuba and Fresno � and when 
he passed away, at Visalia in October, 1914, he was mourned by many who 
had profited through his unselfish life. Mrs. Schlotthauer was Maria K. 
Schmidt before her marriage, and she resides in Exeter. She is the mother 
of ten children, all of whom are still living. 

J. A. Schlotthauer, the fourth child in the family, received the foundation 
of his education at the public schools, after which he early went to work, so 
that from a lad he helped his father on the home farm. Then he engaged 
in wheat raising with his brother and for that purpose leased 800 acres of 
land. While at Colfax. Wash., he was married to Lydia Schreiber, who was 
born in Nebraska; and after their marriage he and his wife attended Walla 
Walla College for a year. 

In 1904 he located at Biola, in Fresno County, where he bought forty acres 
df raw land, and soon set out a vineyard and planted alfalfa. Three years later 
he sold out at a profit, and then lie removed to the vicinity of Exeter, where he 
bought 105 acres on the Kaweah River, where lie engaged in dairying and stock- 
raising for four years, when he again sold out at a profit. He then entered 
Heald's Business College at Fresno, where he took a business course, after which 
he located in Tulare County, farming there until he bought his present place at 
Barstow. This included eighty acres bought on January 22, 1914, only nine of 
which were improved; and there he set out thirty-one acres in Thompson seed- 
less grapes, five acres of Elberta peaches, fifteen acres of peaches and figs inter- 
set, fifteen acres in figs and the balance in apricots, with an orange grove of two 
acres now in bearing. Mr. Schlotthauer also owns eighty acres at Caruthers, 
sixty of which are set out to peaches and twenty to apricots ; and besides man- 
aging these properties, he is engaged in general contracting for leveling and 
checking lands. 

One child, Harold, has blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Schlotthauer. Mr. 
Schlotthauer is a member of the Woodmen of the World; the Adventist Church 
and clerk of the board, and while in Tulare County was trustee of the Venice 
school district. He is also a member of the California Peach Growers, Inc., and 
the California Associated Raisin Company, and he helped to organize the Fresno 
Cooperative Dairyman's Association, acting as its first secretary. Out of it grew 
the San Joaquin Valley Milk Producers' Association, of which he is a member 
and its first secretary.