Lake County CA Archives Biographies.....Edmands, William O. (Jr.) 1859 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM O. EDMANDS, JR., a farmer of Upper Lake, Lake County, was born at
Newton, Massachusetts, December 1859. He received his education in the public
schools of Newton and Harvard College, where he graduated in the class of 1883.
In the fall of 1884 he came to Lake County with Messrs. Charles Mifflin Hammond
and Gardiner Greene Hammond, Jr., to look for a location to engage in wine
manufacture and in fruit and stock raising. They were pleased with this section
of country and purchased 1,300 acres of land on the east side of the northern
part of Clear Lake. This tract of land was not improved, having been used
previously as a sheep ranch. They took possession of this property, since known
as "Red Hill Ranch," November 1, 1884, and immediately entered upon a vigorous
and systematic course of improvement. The climate and soil have proven to be
admirably adapted for the purposes for which it has been utilized, and the
results accomplished in the few years under the management of the proprietors is
truly wonderful. Mr. Edmands' ranch consists of 482 acres, 100 of which is
cultivated, the balance being used as pasture lands. He is engaged principally
in raising fine cattle and horses, making a specialty of the short-horn Durham
breed of cattle and grade Percheron horses. He has a very attractive house,
which commands a magnificent view of Clear Lake and the grand scenery
surrounding it. He is constantly making new improvements, being now engaged in
laying pipes to conduct water from a fine spring on the mountain side about one
mile distant, to his residence. Mr. Edmands is very systematic in all he does,
which, in connection with his good judgment and enterprise, has led to his
present prosperity, and which cannot fail to result in future success. His
accomplished wife, nee Hammond, is a daughter of Mr. Gardiner Greene Hammond, a
gentleman of New London, Connecticut.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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