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


PAUL NEUMANN. Of the many callings at which a man may succeed the world recognizes 
agriculture as of extreme importance and to-day the honest farmer or rancher can hold his 
own with the best wherever he may go. Following this line of endeavor with marked success is 
Paul Neumann, a resident of Merced county, living near Le Grand, a man who has the utmost 
respect and esteem of his neighbors and acquaintances and one who deserves all the success 
which he enjoys. In his life work he but follows in the footsteps of his father, Charles Neumann, 
a native of Germany, who came to New York when quite young. There he took for his wife 
Miss Abbie Herwig, also of German nativity ; the parents still reside in New York state, where, 
though seventy-two years of age, the father still follows farm pursuits. Besides Paul there is a 
son, John P., of San Mateo county, and a daughter, Mrs. J. L. Gillette, also residing in California. 

Upon his father's farm in central New York, Paul Neumann was born October 25, 1857, and 
upon this same farm he was reared and lived until twenty-two years of age, when he left his 
home for the west. Traveling first to Kansas, after remaining there a short time he started in 
October of that same year for California, locating in Merced county, which has been his home 
ever since. He first hired out as a laborer on a ranch, following this until he was able to rent 
two hundred acres of land near his present place. He afterward rented one thousand acres of 
rich land and finally accumulated enough to purchase his eight hundred and eighty-acre ranch 
one mile from Le Grand, where he now lives. Besides this ranch Mr. Neumann rents twenty-six 
hundred and forty acres, which he devotes to grain and stock. The thriving condition of his 
whole place speaks well for his business ability and worth. 

In California Mr. Neumann was united in marriage with Miss Martha A. Mallory, a native of 
Sonoma county and a daughter of the late J. F. Mallory, a pioneer of that section. This union 
has been blessed with the following six children : Charles F., Edith A., Mabel M., Lester P., 
Howard L. and Marvin E., all of whom are still at home. Politically an adherent of Republican 
principles, Mr. Neumann has served his party as supervisor of his district for one term, from 
1892 to 1896, and has also served as school trustee of his district for several years. He was 
one of the organizers of the California Grain Growers' Association, and fraternally affiliates 
with the Odd Fellows and the Fraternal Aid. The success which has come to Mr. Neumann has 
been richly deserved, as his position to-day is the result of enterprise and perseverance.