California Biographies, San Joaquin Valley

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


EMIL WOLFES. In this state where such a large percentage of the population is made up of 
people who have migrated from other states it is pleasing to meet one who is a native son and 
who has made a success of the opportunities that have presented themselves. Mr. Wolfes is 
now the superintendent of the Eggers vineyard. He was born in San Francisco, in 1871, and is a 
son of Gerard and Caroline Eggers. The father was born in Germany and on immigrating to this 
country took up his residence in San Francisco, where he lived until his death in 1877. His wife is 
still living, making her home with George H. Eggers, the founder of the vineyard bearing his 
name. By her marriage she became the mother of two children of whom E. Wolfes is the 
eldest. His boyhood and youth were spent in the city of his birth where he obtained a practical 
common school education. At an early age, owing to sickness, he was compelled to give up his 
schooling and afterward entered an office as a clerk. Subsequently he became an accountant 
and bookkeeper, which occupation he followed until 1894, when he located in Fresno county. 
The first' three years of his residence here were spent on the ranch that his mother had 
previously purchased, but at the end of the two years Mr. Wolfes again took up his old 
occupation of bookkeeping, entering the employ of a winery. In 1900 he was put in charge of 
the books of the Eggers' vineyard and five years later was made the superintendent, which 
position he is now filling. This property is located six miles northeast of Fresno and consists of 
seven hundred acres, five hundred and fifty of which are in vineyard. 

In political matters, Mr. Wolfes is a Republican, but he has never cared to take a very active part 
in public affairs, preferring to give his whole time to his employers. Enterprising and industrious 
he has attained an enviable position among the vineyardists of Fresno county.