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 ANDRES S. RAYNOR. Eight miles east of the town of Le Grand, on the old Raynor ranch, resides the gentleman named above, and without a doubt he is one of the most prominent and successful sheep and stock ranchers in Merced county. His home ranch contains seventeen hundred acres and in Mariposa county in partnership with his brother, W. N. Raynor, he has a two hundred and forty acre grain farm. He also rents eight thousand acres of the Raynor estate, which formerly contained fourteen thousand acres, located in Merced, Madera and Mar- iposa counties. It was on Long Island. New York, that Mr. Raynor was born, January 14, 1865, and he is one of three children born to William M. and Jennie (Carmen) Raynor and grandson of Micajah and Ruth (Baldwin) Raynor. His father, born at Hempstead, N. Y., in 1831 spent his boyhood and early youth on the farm of his father and at seventeen went to Richmond county to learn the baking business. While here several years later he made up his mind to go to California and accordingly embarked on the steamer Cherokee bound for Panama. After a rough trip, Aspinwall was reached and Mr. Raynor was five days travel- ing up the Chagres river, after which he took the steamer McKino for San Francisco. - Bad weather delayed the steamer so long that the supply of coal and provisions gave out and after waiting several months he was at last obliged to take the coast steamer at San Simeon bay, reaching San Francisco after a journey of five months. At Jamestown in Tuolumne county, he engaged in mining pursuits for several years, afterward returning to his home in New York. In 1861 he married Miss Jennie Carmen, who was born in the Empire state, the only child of Joseph Carmen, who died at Freeport, L. I., December 26, 1904, when eighty-five years of age. His daughter, Mrs. Jennie Raynor, died at San Jose, December 21, 1904, when fifty-nine years of age. In 1868, with his family, including Andres S., Mr. Raynor again went to California by the Panama route and in Tuolumne county he en- gaged in raising sheep, which occupied his attention up to 1871. In Mariposa county he fol- lowed a similar business the next year, afterward spending a short time in Fresno county. In 1872 he located on the place previously mentioned, known as the old Raynor ranch, and here for many years he engaged in raising sheep on an extensive scale. About 1884 he removed to San Jose, but it was in Fresno county that he died in 1893, aged sixty-two years. His chil- dren are Mrs. Addie Daulton, of Madera county ; Andres S. ; and William N., who follows ranch- ing pursuits in Merced county. Reared in California, Andres S. Raynor was the recipient of a very good education ; his com- mon school learning was supplemented by a complete course in the Garden City Business College and after leaving school he took up the life of a rancher, to which his subsequent years have been devoted. He is assisted by his brother, William N., who married Miss Sadie CleeR, a native of Merced county, Cal. It was in Santa Clara county that Andres S. Raynor married Miss Nellie McKee, who was born in San Jose, and they have three children, Howard. Ruth and Joseph. Like his father, Mr. Raynor is a stanch Republican but has never been active in political affairs. His father, however, while a resident of Fresno county, served as supervisor. Both brothers are public-spirited citizens, befitting their high standing in the community.