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 . oming to Placentia in his first year, Benjamin Kraemers earliest recollectionsare of the place he still owns and has resided on since 1867. Here he learned ranchingfrom the time he was a lad and attended the local public school. Desiring to obtaina higher education he worked his way through St. Vincents College in Los .geles,as well as Woodburys Business College, graduating from the la
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 . oming to Placentia in his first year, Benjamin Kraemers earliest recollectionsare of the place he still owns and has resided on since 1867. Here he learned ranchingfrom the time he was a lad and attended the local public school. Desiring to obtaina higher education he worked his way through St. Vincents College in Los .geles,as well as Woodburys Business College, graduating from the latter in 1886, whennineteen years of age, and then returned to the old home ranch, where he took up hisresidence in the old house built by his father, and here he lived until he completed hisnew residence in 1919; he has the unique distinction of living longer in one house thanany other one person in Orange County—over fifty-two years. His ranch comprisessixty-seven acres of which thirty acres is devoted to raising oranges and twenty acresto walnuts, having set out every tree in his orchards. He was one of the organizersof the Placentia Mutual Orange Growers Association, of which he was a director for.
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