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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

HANS J. RAVEN

   The qualities which made Hans Raven the efficient and capable superintendent
of the cattle department of Miller and Lux's large cattle ranches were inherited
from a Danish ancestry. His parents, Iver and Mary (Lauritzen) Raven, both came
from Denmark and were living in Des Moines County, Iowa, when their son Hans was
born. The father was a farmer and moved with his family to Watsonville, Cal., in
1885, and from there to Los Banos in 1890, and here the father died; the mother
is still living in Oakland at the age of seventy-one. Hans is the eldest of five
children. The others are: Louis P. and Gertrude, Mrs. Conrad of Oakland; Anna,
Mrs. Crowley, of San Francisco; and Carl, deceased.

   Hans J. Raven, after two or three years schooling in Watsonville, started to
work for himself, at the age of fifteen, on ranches and for the last
thirty-three years has been with Miller and Lux. He is at present the
superintendent of the cattle department of Miller and Lux. He owns a ten-acre
orchard of prunes on Saratoga Avenue, near Santa Clara in Santa Clara County,
also a fifty-two acre dairy farm four miles out of Los Banos, which he leases.

   On July 2, 1902, Mr. Raven was married to Miss Lillian Irene Lenhouts, a
native of Iowa, the daughter of Pete Lenhouts, a farmer of Iowa. There are two
daughters of this union, Edna and Irene Bernice. Politically, Mr. Raven supports
the nominees of the Republican party. Fraternally he is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Los Banos, and of the B. P. O. Elks of San
Jose.


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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