Merced County Biographies

HANS J. RAVEN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        The qualities which made Hans Raven the efficient and capable 
superintendent of the cattle department of Miller and Lux's large cattle ranches 
were inherited from a Danish ancestry. His parents, Iver and Mary (Lauritzen) 
Raven, both came from Denmark and were living in Des Moines County, Iowa, when 
their son Hans was born. The father was a farmer and moved with his family to 
Watsonville, Cal., in 1885, and from there to Los Banos in 1890, and here the 
father died; the mother is still living in Oakland at the age of seventy-one. 
Hans is the eldest of five children. The others are: Louis P. and Gertrude, Mrs. 
Conrad of Oakland; Anna, Mrs. Crowley, of San Francisco; and Carl, deceased.
        Hans J. Raven, after two or three years schooling in Watsonville, 
started to work for himself, at the age of fifteen, on ranches and for the last 
thirty-three years has been with Miller and Lux. He is at present the 
superintendent of the cattle department of Miller and Lux. He owns a ten-acre 
orchard of prunes on Saratoga Avenue, near Santa Clara in Santa Clara County, 
also a fifty-two acre dairy farm four miles out of Los Banos, which he leases.
        On July 2, 1902, Mr. Raven was married to Miss Lillian Irene Lenhouts, a 
native of Iowa, the daughter of Pete Lenhouts, a farmer of Iowa. There are two 
daughters of this union, Edna and Irene Bernice. Politically, Mr. Raven supports 
the nominees of the Republican party. Fraternally he is a member of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Los Banos, and of the B. P. O. Elks of San 
Jose.
 
History of Merced County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1925
page 690-691