California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


GEORGE A. KAHL. A prosperous rancher. George A. Kahl is located near Plainsberg, Merced 
county, engaged in the cultivation of an extensive property, having three hundred and 
twenty acres in his own ranch, and, with his brother, Ernest D. Kahl, is conducting the in- 
terests of the old homestead, which consists of thirteen hundred and eighty acres. Their inter- 
ests are largely given over to the raising of wheat, barley and cattle, as well as other stock, 
the sale of hogs alone in 1903 amounting to $1,000. Mr. Kahl is a progressive and enter- 
prising farmer and by his business-like methods and thorough system has met with a success 
which places him among the representative men of the community. 

With the exception of five years and five months, every year of Mr. Kahl's life has been 
spent in Merced county, where he was born September 26, 1866. He is a son of Adam Kahl, 
whose biographical sketch appears on another page of this volume. At the age of sixteen 
he had finished the public school course and then entered the Stockton Business College, pass- 
ing five years preparing himself by a commercial education for a successful prosecution of 
whatever line of work be might choose to take up. Afterward he spent five months in San Luis 
Obispo county. Returning to Merced county, he has since made this his home, engaging in the 
cultivation of his extensive ranch. He is a prominent man in his community and has been called 
upon to serve in public capacity, for ten years, from 1891 to 1901, discharging the duties of 
justice of the peace. He married Mabel B. Gardner, a native of Tennessee and a daughter of 
William Gardner. Of this union were born five children, namely: Georgia W., Helena W., Guy 
and Mabel L., and Evelina M., the second child, is deceased. Politically Mr. Kahl is independent, 
reserving the right to cast his ballot for the man whom he considers best adapted for official ca- 
pacity. Fraternally he was a member of the Merced Parlor No. 24, N. S. G. W., for ten years ; is 
a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Ancient Order of United Workmen.