Lyon County
Robert C. Scheel
Biography
(Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney)
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Nevada Genealogy Trails Lyon County Robert C. Scheel Biography (Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney) |
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ROBERT C. SCHEEL, a prominent farmer and sheep-raiser of Mason valley, Nevada, was born in Prussia, December 26, 1840, and was educated in his native country until he was thirteen years of age. At that time he went to sea, sailing before the mast to the different seaports of the world. In the spring of 1866 he sailed on an American ship from Boston bound for San Francisco, and upon landing there he went into the country and worked for wages until he became a sheep-owner, in 1875, in Calaveras county. He prospered in his business, owning as many as ten thousand sheep at one time. In 1890 he removed to Nevada, believing he would find there better opportunities for his sheep-raising. Two years later he purchased his present very desirable farm of one hundred and sixty acres one and one-half miles southeast of Yerington, where he has a good homestead and makes it his headquarters, while his large flocks of sheep are in charge of his herders in the mountains as high as nine thousand feet. He raises his own hay and grain as well as farm products, and is very successful in all he undertakes. The strain of his sheep is fine Merino. In addition to this property he owns a fine range of five hundred acres near Dayton. In politics Mr. Scheel is a Republican, and religiously was brougnt up in the Lutheran faith. He is a reliable man, who by hard work and thrift has raised himself to his present enviable position. Among his neighbors he bears a good name, is recognized as a clean, honest fellow and one whose word is to be relied upon.
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