California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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WILLIAM G. FRIEDRICK. Representing the young and enthusiastic agricultural element of 
Ventura County, to whose progressive, energetic methods must be accredited much of the 
prosperity of this section and to which the locality must look for its future development, William 
G. Friedrick is now engaged in the cultivation of too acres of fertile land in the vicinity of 
Oxnard. Mr. Friedrick has passed his entire life in Ventura County, and while still young in years 
has already achieved standing and success as a tiller of the soil.
Mr. Friedrick was born on his father's farm in Ventura County, September 27, 1892, and is a son 
of Franz Joseph and Magdalena Friedrick. His father was born is Germany and there educated, 
and in 1870 came to the United States, settling in Ventura County, where he purchased 1,200 
acres of land on the Conejo, which he farmed for some nine years. Later he purchased an 
additional eighty acres in the Ocean View district, which he operated for eight years, and then 
bought 135 acres in the Hueneme district, which continued to be his home and the scene of his 
activities during the remainder of his life, his death occurring on this property in 1907. He was 
one of the substantial men of his community and a citizen who aided all good movements, 
while as a business man he was honored and respected because of his adherence to honest and 
straightforward principles.
William G. Friedrick attended the public schools of the Hueneme district until reaching the age 
of eight years, at which time he was sent to Saint Joseph's Institute, at Oxnard, from which he 
was graduated at the age of fourteen years. His father had died when he was fifteen years old, 
and he early accepted responsibilities far beyond his years. From his father's estate he 
inherited 100 acres, lying not far from Oxnard, and since the attainment of his majority he has 
been engaged in cultivating this tract, which he now has planted in beans and beets. He has 
made a success of his operations and is accounted one of the practical and progressive 
ranchers of his locality. Mr. Friedrick is a republican, but has found no time to engage in 
political affairs beyond exercising his right of franchise as a supporter of the candidates of his 
party. He is a Catholic in religious belief, and holds membership in the Knights of Columbus.
On November 23, 1913, Mr. Friedrick was married at Oxnard to Miss Anna Agnes Muzny.