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 . d a second time, taking EmilKrueger for her husband; and they improved a ranch and followed farming, in EastOrange. This first place of theirs, where they now reside, consists of twenty acres;and when they had made a success of that, they improved several other places. .A. F. Plegel was reared in Orange, attended the local public schools, and froma lad learned horticulture and nurseryi
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 . d a second time, taking EmilKrueger for her husband; and they improved a ranch and followed farming, in EastOrange. This first place of theirs, where they now reside, consists of twenty acres;and when they had made a success of that, they improved several other places. .A. F. Plegel was reared in Orange, attended the local public schools, and froma lad learned horticulture and nurserying, and for four or five years he was employedby George B. Warner in Santa Ana, in the work of grafting and budding. By 1907he had sufficiently advanced that he was able to buy his place of twenty acres onCommonwealth .Avenue, near North; like so many other places hereabouts at thattime, it was merely cactus and sagebrush, but he settled there, built a dwelling,cleared and leveled the land, and sunk a well which is now pumped out by electricalpower, irrigating his own place and 140 acres more. His plant has a stream of 100inches, and he has been able to raise from 2,000 to 3,000 sacks of potatoes a ^A^^^^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1053 Mr. Plegel has a thorough knowledge of horticulture and the nursery its first stages up, and at first commenced his nursery solely for himself. Hisoutput, however, was in excess of his needs, and the reputation he acquired for skilltraveled abroad, until others insisted on his giving them the benefit of his experi-ence. He belongs to the Mutual Orange Distributors Exchange, and is often a leaderin its activities. At Orange, Mr. Plegel was married to Miss Paula Simon, a native of Germany,and three children have lilessed the choice. They are Carl. Arnold and Emil. andwith their parents they attend the Anaheim Lutheran Church. In national politicsa Republican, Mr. Plegel allows no partisanship to interfere at any time with hisboo
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