History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . sugar chemistry in a German college. He has followedthe sugar industry all his life since finishing his studies, and in Germany was chemistin the leading sugar factories. Coming to the United States, in 1890, Mr. Turck was chief chemist for the sugarbeet company at Grand Island, Nebr. When the American Sugar Factory was beingbuilt, at Chino, Cal., in 1891-92, he came there and was chie
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . sugar chemistry in a German college. He has followedthe sugar industry all his life since finishing his studies, and in Germany was chemistin the leading sugar factories. Coming to the United States, in 1890, Mr. Turck was chief chemist for the sugarbeet company at Grand Island, Nebr. When the American Sugar Factory was beingbuilt, at Chino, Cal., in 1891-92, he came there and was chief chemist at that factoryfor fourteen years, up to 1906, when he located at .Anaheim, and for a time gave uphis life work to engage in horticulture. He bought seven acres of land on SouthLemon Street, and planted an orange grove, which he brought to a high state of culti-vation. In 1913, Mr. Turck became chief chemist for the .aheim Sugar Company, andcontinued in that position until 1917, when he retired and spends his time looking aftera twenty-acre orange grove, the property of his wife and her sister, situated on NorthLemon Street. An expert in sugar refining, Mr. Turck has taken a large part in the. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 789 development of the comparatively new industry in the state, and as such takes rankwith other able men who have helped, each individual to the best of his ability in hischosen line, in making California the richest state in the union. It is to such thatthe praise of posterity is due. The marriage of Mr. Turck united him with Clementine E. Schmidt, daughter ofTheodore Schmidt, one of the original fifteen settlers of Anaheim, who came fromGermany in 1857 and bought 1,200 acres at the purchase price of two dollars per acre,and founded the town of Anaheim; Mr. Schmidt himself selected the name of thetown. Water was brought from the river, vineyards planted and the town more extensive biography of Mr. Schmidt will be found elsewhere in the work,
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