Yolo-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Lauener, Peter 1835 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

PETER LAUENER, a farmer near Capay, was born April 26, 1835, in Switzerland, the
son of Christian and Ann Lauener, natives also of that country; the father, by
occupation a farmer, died there in 1849, at the age of forty-five years. Peter
was brought up on a farm in Switzerland until 1851, when he emigrated to
America, with his widowed mother and five other children, and came direct to
Richland County, Illinois, where he remained until 1859, on a small farm owned
by his mother. In 1859 he came overland to California, by way of Pike's Peak,
where he remained two weeks. The ensuing winter he spent at Placerville, and
during the following spring he entered Capay Valley, and worked for wages until
he purchased his present place in 1887, which he is preparing for a fruit farm.
It comprises 300 acres, and is situated three miles from Capay. He has a sister
in Yolo County, and a brother at Sonora. He is a member of Lodge No. 242. 0. C.
F., at Capay.

  He was married in 1872, to Miss Nancy Lang, a native of New York, and a sister
of J. A. Lang, an old, time-honored pioneer of Yolo County. Mr. Lauener is an
energetic and prosperous farmer, with brilliant prospects before him.


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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