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


BENNET RISING. Ten miles southeast of Tulare and three miles from the postoffice of 
Woodville lies the farm home of Mr. Rising, who has made this the scene of his labors ever since 
coming to Tulare county in 1879. The nucleus of his present possessions he acquired by the pur- 
chase of one hundred and sixty acres in section 11, formerly owned by the Southern Pacific Rail- 
road Company, and situated on the Tule river. After settling on the place he erected a substan- 
tial set of farm buildings and has also made the necessary arrangements for irrigation. At this 
writing he owns two hundred and eighty acres of land, on which he engaged in raising grain un- 
til about 1894, but since then has made a specialty of dairying and raising stock. To secure hay for 
his stock he has placed twenty acres under alfalfa, several crops of which may be cut in a year. 

In a family of eleven children, all but two of whom attained maturity and five are now living, 
Bennet Rising was the youngest in order of birth and is the only member of the family to settle 
in California. One of his brothers, Joseph, served with a Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil war. 
His father, Martin Rising, was born and reared in Bavaria, Germany. Accompanied by his wife 
and two children, he crossed the ocean to Pennsylvania and settled in Indiana county, where he 
engaged in farming near the city of Indiana, and died at eighty-six years of age. While the fam- 
ily were living there Bennet Rising was born February 10, 1852. The mother, who bore the 
maiden name of Margaretta Young, was born in Bavaria and died in Pennsylvania. Both were 
devoted members of the Roman Catholic Church. 

The boyhood years of Bennet Rising passed uneventfully upon the home farm, in the pursuit 
of such work as falls to the lot of a farmer's boy. In 1877 he came to California and settled in Yolo 
county, but after two years as a farmer there he came to Tulare county and settled upon a farm 
which he still owns and occupies. During his residence in Pennsylvania he was married, in In- 
diana county, to Miss Maggie Stadtmiller, a native of that state, her father, George Stadtmiller, 
having immigrated here from Germany during early manhood. Three of her brothers became 
residents of California, and two of them died in this locality. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Rising- 
comprises the following children : George M. and Joseph H., who assist in the management of 
the home farm ; Florence, who is married and lives at Farmersville, Tulare county ; Mabelle, 
Raymond and Guy, who are with their parents. The family are connected with the Roman Cath- 
olic Church of Tulare and contribute to its maintenance and various charities. Though not active 
in politics, Mr. Rising always gives his support to the Democratic party. Among the many move- 
ments which meet his approval may be mentioned the free schools, the work of which he consistent- 
ly supports, and for many years, while serving as trustee of Surprise district, he was able to do 
much to promote the interests of the home schools.