Tulare County Biographies

Fred Haering

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, March, 2007

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	Fred Haering, one of the successful ranchers, three and a 
half miles northeast of Hanford, was born in Switzerland, in 1831. He was reared 
on a farm until his eighteenth year, when he came to the United States, first 
settling in St. Louis. There he found employment in a tobacco factory, but 
preferring an agricultural life he went to Clayton County, Iowa, where he bought 
145 acres of land, and engaged in general farming and stock-raising. In 1878 he 
sold out and came to California, first stopping in Sonoma County, where he 
engaged in farming; but the soil and climate being so different from the East 
his first efforts were a failure. In 1881 he came to Tulare County and bought 
his present ranch of 200 acres, where his efforts have been more successful. He 
now has 120 acres in alfalfa, nine acres in orchard and vineyard, and is also 
engaged in the stock business, keeping horses, cattle and sheep. Mr. Haering was 
married in Hanford, inn 1883, to Mrs. Anna M. Hochstrasser, nee Brugger, a widow 
with three children, and a native of Switzerland. He dates the commencement of 
his prosperity at the date of his marriage, and his handsome two-story house, 
built in 1890, with his well-kept ranch and happy home relations, are the best 
evidence that his union strengthened the purpose of his life.
 
Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare 
and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, p.402.