Merced-Santa Cruz County CA Archives Biographies.....Detlefsen, Caspar H. 1872 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

CASPAR H. DETLEFSEN

   A successful rancher and dairyman is found in the person of Caspar H.
Detlefsen, a native son of California, born in the Pajaro Valley, Santa Cruz
County, January 8, 1872. His parents were Andrew and Sena Detlefsen, natives of
Denmark, who sought the more prosperous country of America in which to succeed
in the battle of life. Andrew Detlefsen came to California in the sixties and
engaged in ranching in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties. He died in 1921, aged
seventy-seven years, nine months and nine days; his good wife died when she was
sixty-nine. They had seven children: Nis; Annie, Mrs. W. H. Rhodes; Caspar H.;
James; Andrew; Elsie, Mrs. Ben Cruse; and Lillie, Mrs. George Rohrback.

   The third in order of birth in his parents family of children, Caspar was
educated in the schools of Santa Cruz County and from boyhood was brought up to
work on the home farm. In 1889 he came to the West Side in Merced County and was
employed on the Sturgeon ranch, after which he began for himself by purchasing
twenty acres of the Crittenden place, raising alfalfa. The ranch was under the
San Joaquin-Kings River ditch; he sold this place in 1923. In 1907, in Oakland,
Cal., Mr. Detlefsen was married to May L. Sparks, born on the old Sparks ranch
near Newman, the daughter of J. S. Sparks, of whom mention is made on another
page of this history. After their marriage the young folks rented one section of
the Sparks ranch and farmed to grain. In 1917 Mr. Detlefsen purchased 280 acres,
part of the Eachus ranch, and farmed successfully. He now leases 200 acres of
his land and on the balance conducts a dairy of about thirty head of cows. He is
a member of the Knights of Pythias, and both himself and wife belong to the
Pythian Sisters at Newman. Politically he is a Democrat. In all that he has
undertaken, Mr. Detlefsen has been fairly successful and he takes a helpful
interest in all matters of public import.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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