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

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


EPHRAIM B. HALL. This section of California was the home of Ephraim B. Hall during his quieter 
and less active years. He came to the continued his education in the high schools of Ventura 
County, concluding with a five months' course in the Los Angeles Business College.
Since leaving school he has found abundance of work on his father's ranch of twenty acres near 
Santa Paula, and since 1913 has been its active manager. He owns a half interest in the 320-
acre estate in Kern County. As an apiarist Mr. Crane, in partnership with his father, owns 500 
colonies of bees and has this large bee farm located on some land which he leases near Santa 
Paula. He is also foreman of the Santa Clara Valley Walnut Association.
Mr. Crane is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in politics votes the 
democratic ticket. In Santa Ana, California, November 13, 1911, he married Miss Kate 
Schumacher, a native of Ohio and a daughter of William Schumacher of Akron, Ohio. They have 
one child, Francis J., now two years of age.