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


ERNEST VOLQUARDS. Three miles southwest of Visalia, Tulare county, is located the 
ranch of Ernest Volquards, who is named among the enterprising ranchers of this section. He is 
a native son of California, having been born in San Francisco January 4, 1869, his father, Ernest 
Volquards, Sr., having emigrated from his birthplace in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1853. 
The elder man was a sailor in occupation, following this line of work from the time he was six- 
teen years of age until his retirement in San Francisco. This was in 1862, when he returned 
to California as first mate. He spent three years in mining in Placer county. His death occurred 
in his adopted state in 1898, in the home of his son. He is survived by his wife, formerly Eras- 
mine Jensen, a native likewise of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and who now makes her home 
with her son. They became the parents of three sons and one daughter, of whom two sons and 
the daughter are now living. 

The oldest child in his father's family, Ernest Volquards, Jr.. was reared in San Francisco, re- 
ceiving his education in the public schools of that city. Upon attaining maturity he engaged as an 
employe in a nursery, raising stock for four years. In 1886 he went to Fresno county and was 
employed in the Faucher Creek nursery for the period of five years. At the end of that time he 
removed to Tulare county and near Visalia bought his present property, which consists of 
forty acres of land under a high state of cultivation. This entire property is devoted to the rais- 
ing of fruit ; peaches and prunes occupying the greater part of his attention. One acre is de- 
voted to nursery stock, principally peaches. In 1899 he further improved his property by erect- 
ing a beautiful residence. 

In San Francisco Mr. Volquards was united in marriage with Emily Quedens, a native of that 
city, who died in Pasadena in 1900 while there for the benefit of her health. Fraternally Mr. 
Volquards is associated with the Native Sons of the Golden West, being a member of Visalia Par- 
lor No. 19, of which he is now serving as the second vice-president, and in which he has passed 
all the chairs. Politically he is independent in his views, reserving the right to cast his ballot 
for the man whom he considers best qualified for public office.