Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Grauel, Emil F. 1865 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

EMIL F. GRAUEL

    As orchardist for the University state farm at Davis and also as an expert
horticulturist Mr. Grauel wields a large influence in circles associated with
the line of his specialty. The broad knowledge which he possesses results from
scientific researches, constant study and long practical experience. No
haphazard methods ever have been adopted in his investigations. Every phase of
fruit culture receives due attention and the results of his study have tangible
expression in improved varieties or the development of old-established strains.
Notwithstanding the breadth of his horticultural information he still considers
himself a student and is ever eager to grasp facts bearing upon the scientific
cultivation of fruits.

    The early years of Emil F. Grauel gave little evidence of the bent of his
nature or the specialties of his maturity. Born at Lebanon, St. Clair county,
Ill., March 28, 1865, educated in public schools, and apprenticed in the east to
the trade of factory shoemaker, he later abandoned that work for the business of
a jeweler, but only for a short time did he continue to work. Coming to
California in 1889, it was not long before he found the occupation to which he
was best suited. While employed by Pike & Kendall on the Ingleside fruit farm in
Sacramento county for two years, he learned every detail of the fruit industry
and also made a scientific study of vine culture. When he left the fruit farm he
came to Davis, Yolo county, and began to operate vineyards and orchards as a
renter. For a time he rented the William Ede vineyard of thirty-two acres at
Davis and in addition he raised raisin grapes on what is now the state farm
grounds. For three years he leased and operated the Miller ranch of two hundred
and forty acres, where he raised grain, also had a large orchard and a vineyard.
At different times he has bought the products of the various almond orchards and
has shipped them to the city markets.

    The acquisition of the title to six acres of almond orchard near the state
farm placed Mr. Grauel among the property owners of Davis and he held the entire
orchard for a time, but recently sold one and one-half acres to another party
for the purpose of cutting up the land into town lots. The growth of Davis has
justified the enlargement of its subdivisions and there are not wanting
enthusiastic citizens to predict a far greater expansion of local interests in
the future than the past has witnessed, their reason for this belief being based
upon the rich farming and horticultural territory tributary to the village. In
patriotic devotion to the community upbuilding Mr. Grauel stands second to none,
for he is an earnest advocate of the adaptability of the soil to fruit culture
and a stalwart friend of all enterprises tending to expand undeveloped
resources. In 1891 he was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary L. (Caulfield)
Haines, born at Davis, by whom he has a daughter, Hilda. His union brought him
into relationship with an honored pioneer family of Yolo county, for his
father-in-law, John Caulfield, came here in a very early day and contributed his
quota toward developing the local resources.


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Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
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
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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