YUBA COUNTY Biographies
CASPER J. MICHEL
A native son of Sutter County who has ever been alert, enterprising and energetic is Casper J. Michel, who runs a dairy farm of eighty acres one-half mile southeast of Nicolaus. He was born on the Michel home place near Nicolaus, January 29, 1872, a son of John Adam and Anna Margretha (Krieg) Michel. The mother resides on the home place, and a sketch of her life may be found in this volume.
Casper J. Michel attended the Nicolaus grammar school, and from early boyhood he and his brother Frank J. Michel conducted the home ranch. In partnership with his brother Frank J., he purchased forty acres; and they farmed this jointly until five years ago, when Casper J. Michel purchased his brother’s interest. Since then he has conducted the dairy business on his own account. Previously he had purchased forty acres of the old home place from his mother; so now he has eighty acres of land with splendid soil and well irrigated, over fifty acres of which are devoted to alfalfa. He has made all the improvements on the ranch, including a comfortable residence and other farm buildings, and has two pumping plants, one for irrigating the ranch and the other for domestic use. He maintains a heard of forty Holstein cows on this property, and his hard work and close application to business have won him success.
The marriage of Mr. Michel occurred on January 30, 1908, in Sacramento, and united him with Mrs. Anna (Gisler) Gamma, a native of Canton Uri, Switzerland. She was reared and educated in Canton Uri; and there, too, occurred her first marriage, uniting her with Anton Gamma. He came to Nicolaus, Cal., and she joined him in 1904. Mr. Gamma died in 1904, leaving his widow and a daughter, Rosa Gamma. Mr. and Mrs. Michel are the parents of six children: Edward, Freda, Louise, Albert, Margaret, and Leona. In politics Mr. Michel is a Republican.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
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