Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Schlotz, Chris 1874 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

CHRIS SCHLOTZ

    In a comfortable residence on West Main street, two miles from the city of
Woodland, lives Chris Schlotz, who was born in Oberamt Schorndorf, Wurtemberg,
Germany March 13, 1874. His father, David Schlotz, a farmer in Wurtemberg, is
still living in his native land. The latter married Christine Birk, who died in
1907, after having borne him ten children, of whom seven are living and of whom
Chris, fourth in order of nativity, is the only one in California.

    In the public schools of his native land Chris Schlotz was educated and in
farming he was instructed by his father until he was nineteen years old. At that
time he had become deeply interested in California, no less through reading than
through the representations of men and women of his neighborhood who had
returned from the American Golden West, enthusiastic as to its beauties and its
possibilities, and he resolved to visit the land of his dreams and of his
aspirations; so in 1893, the year in which he was nineteen years old, he came to
California and immediately located in Yolo county. During the first five years
of his stay here he was employed on the ranch of George Woodward. Then he
ranched until 1903, rounding out the first ten years of his career in America,
and from 1903 until 1911 he was in the liquor trade on Main street, Woodland. In
1912 he bought his present ranch of thirty acres two miles from Woodland, which
he devotes to the growing of alfalfa. Being under irrigation, it yields about
five cuttings a year. The place is well improved with a good house and ample
barns and other outbuildings. A thorough California farmer, Mr. Schlotz,
operating along lines strictly up-to-date, is making a success of which many
another farmer in his vicinity might well be proud.

    August 3, 1905, Mr. Schlotz married, at Woodland, Miss Emma Rath, who was
born in Hungry Hollow, Yolo county, a daughter of George and Sarah (Mast) Rath,
successful farmers, who lived out their days in that neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs.
Schlotz are members of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, with which her
parents also were identified. Fraternally he affiliates with the Herman Sons and
with the Eagles. His political alliances are Democratic, and there is no
question of public economy in which he is not deeply interested. Thoroughly
Americanized, firmly believing in the great destiny of the people with whom he
has cast Ms lot, he is as patriotic as any native son of the soil could possibly
be, and there is no movement for the benefit of the community that he does not
aid to the extent of his ability.


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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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