Mr. charles lux biography

  • Name, Charles Franklin Lux. Gender, Male.
  • Originally Miller had a partner, Charles Lux, also a South German by birth, who handled the marketing and the genteel city aspects of the business.
  • Henry Miller immigrated to the United States in After building up a thriving butcher business in San Francisco, he engaged in cattle rearing and farming.

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    ARTICLES REGARDING THE HISTORY OF LICK WILMERDING & LUX SCHOOLS
    by George A. MERRILL, Director

    SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
    comprised of
    James Lick California School of Mechanical Arts
    Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts
    Lux School of Industrial Training for Women

    Sources: L W L Life, Published by the Students of the Lick Wilmerding & Lux Schools, San Francisco, California
    Volume XIII, Number 1, June
    Volume XIII, Number 2, December
    Volume XIV, Number 1, June
    Volume XIV, Number 2, December
    Volume XVI, Number 1, June
    Volume XVII, Number 2, December

    THE FOUNDING OF THE LICK SCHOOL
    June

    This is the first of a series of articles that will appear in successive issues of the Life, reviewig historical events and setting forth some heretofore unpublished information regarding the founding of the Lick and Wilmerding and Lux Schools. Not only should these narratives be of interest to students and graduates of the schools, but they will also be t

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      FRESNO COUNTY

    In , the city of Fresno, which had incorporated fif­teen years earlier, was the county metropolis, a true Victo­rian city with its horse-car lines, dirt streets, and wood side­walks. C. J. Craycroft was finishing the unexpired term of Joseph Spinney as mayor. Spinney, elected in , served for only ten minutes, just long enough to make a brief speech resigning the post and nominating his political ally, Craycroft a drama that proved Fresno still had something to learn about civic government. 


    Fresno County's second city was Selma, with a popula­tion of more than 2, Selma had a raisin packing house, a flour mill, and several churches and fraternal organiza­tions. The Selma Irrigator newspaper and its publisher, Mayor John Jay Vanderburgh, opposed Prohibition, but Selma became the Valley's first "dry" city in  


    Unincorporated communities in the county included Clovis, Centerville, Millerton, Pollasky,

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    Henry Miller (rancher)

    German-American rancher

    Henry Miller (July 21, – October 14, ) was a German-Americanrancher known as the "Cattle King of California"[1] who at one point in the late 19th century was one of the largest land-owners in the United States.

    Life and work

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    Born in Brackenheim, hertigdöme of Württemberg as Heinrich Albrecht Kreiser (Kreyser),[2] he emigrated to New York City in , where he worked as a butcher. He moved to California in under the name Henry Miller, a name borrowed from the non-transferable steamer ticket he had purchased from a friend in New York.

    Miller built up a thriving butcher business in San Francisco, later going into partnership with Charles Lux, also a German immigrant and a former competitor, in The Miller and Lux company expanded rapidly, shifting emphasis from meat products to cattle raising, and soon became the largest producer of cattle in California and one of the largest landowners in the United State