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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CONRAD SCHNEIDER.� Fresno County has proven a "land of milk 
and honey" for the people of Samara, Russia, numbers of whom have made 
the journey here in the past twenty years and found a haven from the hard 
conditions at home. Among these, Conrad Schneider has been here since 
a lad of sixteen. Born in Gugges, Samara, March 19, 1886, his father, George, 
was a farmer in that country and brought his family to Fresno in 1902 ; he 
is still a resident of Fresno; the mother, Anna Barbara (Felzing) Schneider, 
died here in 1912. 

Of their family, four boys and two girls are still living, and Conrad is 
the second youngest ; he was raised on the farm in Russia till reaching the 
age of sixteen, receiving his education in the public schools there. Coming 
to Fresno in 1902 with his parents, he went to work to assist his father on 
his ranch on White Bridge road. When reaching twenty-one years, he be- 
gan for himself, and for three years engaged in baling hay on contract with 
his brother George. He then did general teaming in Fresno, and finally 
ventured in ranch work for himself, leasing for one year, and then bought 
a twenty-acre ranch in Barstow near Biola ; this he improved and set out to 
vineyard and alfalfa, sold it, and bought another ranch in Barstow, adjoining 
the first, of twenty acres. This was improved to Thompson seedless vineyard 
and he operated it four years, a splendid ranch, and also bought twenty acres 
near Shields Avenue in Empire, improved it and sold, and in 1918 bought 
a ranch of forty acres on Shields Avenue in Empire, fourteen miles north- 
west of Fresno, a Thompson seedless vineyard. This he traded in July, 1919, 
for forty acres in peaches on Ashlin Avenue, Biola district. 

Mr. Schneider was married, in Fresno, on October 22, 1909, to Miss An- 
nie Huber, born in Zaucmora, Samara, Russia, a daughter of Henry Huber 
who brought his family here in 1900 and is a viticulturist in the Empire dis- 
trict; she was educated in the Fresno schools. Two children have been born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Schneider, Henry and Elsie. The family attends the Lutheran 
Church in Fresno. Mr. Schneider is a member of the California Associated 
Raisin Company and of the Peach Growers, Inc.