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Father of California Wine Industry
'Hungarian nobleman leaves indelible mark'
Agoston Haraszthy made a helpful impression where ever he went. After serving because a new member in the Royal Hungarian Guards of Francis I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary in 1830, he had been forced to flee European countries for fear of being branded a revolutionist. In 1842, he returned to Hungary and convinced his father to liquidate their quantifiable holdings so the whole family could immigrate to America. When these people showed up in Sauk City, Wisconsin, that they were among the best-capitalized immigrants in the 19th century. Along with his other entrepreneurial investments, Haraszthy began agricultural experiments and achieved quantifiable success in sheep raising and growing hops. Even with his significant success, he were still disappointed at not to be able to establish the good quality vineyards of his native Hungary. The tug in the western frontier pulled at the Haraszthy family, and so they headed, by wagon train, to California in 1848. Agoston were the wagon master from the train, which included about sixty immigrants. Without serious incident, the wagon train showed up at Warner Hot Springs, in San Diego County. Colonel Jonathan Warner, a former militiaman who established Warner Hot Springs in 1844, apprised Haraszthy about the agriculture and the politics in the San Diego area. A scant 650 people, most commonly vaqueros, Yankee sailors who had jumped ship, and also a number of Mormon soldiers through the Mormon Battalion populated San Diego.
Haraszthy'ersus family today included his wife, six children, his father and stepmother, and Thomas W. Sutherland, former U.S. Legal professional for Wisconsin Territory, who ended up being right now Haraszthy'utes stepbrother. The Polish immigrant purchased a plot of land adjacent to San Luis Rey Mission, and, with his sons, Attila and Arpad, first planted a large fruit flesh orchard. He later bought 160 acres far more in Mission Valley and planted peach and cherry trees sent to your ex coming from Fresh York Condition. Haraszthy never ceased his investment action as well as his interest in community politics. With Don Juan Bandini, Haraszthy identify the first frequently appointed omnibus transit system and established a livery stable. He established a very profitable butcher go shopping. With other real estate speculators, he helped establish the subdivision of Middletown. Haraszthy Street existed there till the early 1960s when it has been wiped from the map of the construction of Interstate 5.
When San Diego County was actually chartered in 1850, Haraszthy has been elected the first City Marshall, while his father, Charles, was elected Magistrate and Land Commissioner. His stepbrother, Tom Sutherland, became San Diego's first City Attorney. In 1851, he ended up being elected to the Condition Assembly and resigned his other offices. While in the legislature, then visiting in Vallejo, Haraszthy succeeded in getting funding for the expansion of San Diego Harbor and the county'utes first public hospital. He was actually the first legislator to introduce legislation to divide California into two states; North and South. Because of powerful political attention in Northern California, that bill died. Almost all the while, Haraszthy continued searching for land much more suitable for agriculture than San Diego'ersus subtropical desert land offered. Early in 1852, he purchased 210 acres near San Francisco's Mission Dolores. He moved the whole family there at the conclusion in the Assembly Session. Haraszthy'utes noteworthy accomplishments didn't stop. He introduced the "Zinfandel" red wine grape and the "Muscat of Alexandria" raisin grape to California. He invented an efficient platinum refining experience, and ended up being founding partner in the Eureka Rare metal and Sterling silver Refining Company. The firm became a single of the major contract refiners for the San Francisco Mint.
Because of his reputation for fairness and honesty, Haraszthy was actually appointed Assayer in the Mint in 1855. He developed the first large, high-leading grape vineyard at Crystal Springs in San Mateo County. At it brand-new ranch, Haraszthy designed and laid out a nursery and horticultural garden, which he named Los Flores. With his son'ersus help, he planted berries trees and shrubs imported coming from the east. At about this same time, he received a shipment of six choice rooted vines and 160 cuttings through Hungary. In the shipment were two small bundles. 1 was actually the Muscat of Alexandria and the other were said to end up being the famous mystery grape, the Zinfandel. Today the Zinfandel is the most widely planted wine grape in California. In 1857, while visiting Overall Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo at the Generally's Lachrima Montis estate, Haraszthy was actually introduced to the Sonoma Valley. This kind of valley specifically appealed to him or her because it's weather, topography and soil were so equivalent to his Hungarian homeland'utes prime vineyards. In Sonoma, he established the Szeptaj Estate (Buena Vista). That Buena Vista Winery will be today a express park and traditional site.
In 1861, He had been appointed to a California commission to improve agricultural methods and to get vines and fresh fruit tree stocks in The western world. During a European tour with his son, Arpad, he purchased, with his own money, 100,000 grapevines representing 1,400 varieties, along with little selected lots of planting stock for olives, almonds, pomegranates, oranges, lemons and chestnuts. When he returned, Harper & Brothers, of Brand-new York, published Haraszthy'utes report, "Grape Culture, Wine and Wine Making upon Agriculture and Horticulture. It remained the winemaking classic authority in the English language till well into the 20th century. The Haraszthy family planted vineyards for European immigrant buddies and wine growers, including Charles Krug, Emile Dreser and Jacob Grundlach. In 1863, Agoston'utes sons Attila and Arpad Haraszthy were married in a double ceremony to the twin daughters of Common Vallejo. Later, after one of his wine cellars containing vintages of two quite a few years were destroyed by fire, Haraszthy traveled to Nicaragua where he bought a sugar plantation. There, he wife got into contact with yellow fever and died. Agoston Haraszthy died July 3, 1869, near his estate, Hacienda San Antonio, at Corinto, Nicaragua, while seeking to cross a crocodile infested rive.. His family believed that he fell into a river while attempting to cross and has been dragged away by a very alligator. His body was never found.
