Merced-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Halterman, Daniel 1859 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

DANIEL HALTERMAN

   The oldest permanent settler in point of residence in the Atwater district
between Merced and the Merced River and between the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific railroads is Daniel Halterman, residing on his ranch on the
Atwater-Winton highway between the two towns. The sixth child in a family of
twelve children, he was born a Native Son in Pope Valley, Napa County, on
October 30, 1859. His father, Joseph Halterman, was a native of Ohio, in which
state he was united in marriage with Abigail Barnett, likewise born in the
Buckeye State. They came across the plains to California with ox-teams in 1852
and settled in Pope Valley, Napa County, where Mr. Halterman followed ranching.
In 1873 the family moved to Merced County and for a year lived on the G. H.
Fancher ranch, after which they located on the Hamlin ranch near Snelling.
Besides carrying on farming pursuits, Joseph Halterman did teaming, hauling
goods and produce to the mountain towns. It was while engaged in the latter
occupation that he was killed when his team ran away and he died on November 22,
1877, at the Frank Lewis ranch. In 1878 Mrs. Halterman and her family moved to
Hopeton and she managed the ranching affairs for the next three years; at that
time the older sons assumed the care of the family and the mother thereafter
made her home with her children. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L.
L. Short, in Napa County, when she was eighty-three years old.

   Daniel Halterman attended the public schools in the Plainsburg and Eden
districts in Merced County. Having been reared on a ranch it was but natural
that he should continue that as his life work and he assisted on the home place
until 1880. From 1882 to 1884 he leased the Toal farm; from 1886 to 1888 he was
farming part of the George H. Fancher ranch at Tuttle to grain. In 1891 he came
to the Reynolds ranch, a part of the J. W. Mitchell holdings, and with J. M.
Bell leased 2200 acres and farmed to grain. In 1904 he bought fifteen acres in
the Gertrude Colony and soon established his home here. In the meantime he
started a vineyard and orchard, and while these were maturing he did
considerable contract team work during the building of the Yosemite Valley
Railway to a point nine miles from El Portal, since which time he has given his
time to the conduct of his place and has brought it to a high state of
productiveness.  He has been active in the community life of Atwater.

   On December 27, 1886, occurred the marriage of Daniel Halterman and Miss
Ellen Weston, born in Mariposa County, the daughter of the late Louis Weston, a
pioneer miner and a well-known and honored citizen of this part of the San
Joaquin Valley. There were five children born of this union: Mary E., Mrs. J. E.
Stanfield, now living in Atwater and the mother of a son, Eugene; Verl L., a
machinist at Snelling; Florence, Mrs. H. K. Potter, of Sacramento and the mother
of two children, Harry J. R. and Bernice; Donald Joseph, of Atwater is the
fourth; and Helen I., a pupil in the local school. Mr. Halterman is a Republican
in his political belief and he is a firm believer in co-operative marketing and
is a member of the Atwater Fruit Exchange, the Merced-Stanislaus Sweet Potato
Association and the Milk Producers' Association of Central California.


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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