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Agoston Haraszthy was born on 30. 08. 1812 at Futtak, Bacs-Bodrog, Hungary, the son of Charles Haraszthy, a landed proprietor.
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Grape Culture, Wines, and With Notes Upon Agriculture and Horti-Culture (Classic Reprint)
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California. The short time allowed me to complete a work of such magnitude and importance will, I hope, serve as a partial excuse for its defects. To make a tour through a large portion of Europe examine and collect information select vines and trees write the following work, with many of the extracts translated from eminent foreign authors and reports of scientific committees, I was allowed, including my journey to Europe and my return, but seven months and twenty-five days. The task was augmented by extensive and necessary correspondence with government officials, scientific societies, and eminent writers. During this time I have allowed myself little time for rest or recreation; and if I have succeeded in fulfilling my duty to my State and to her people, I shall feel myself amply rewarded. I plead for a lenient judgment on the work on account of my defective English, being a native of Hungary, although a naturalized American citizen, which will, I hope, fully explain this unavoidable defect. That my readers will understand my meaning without difficulty is all that I dare hope. The translations contained in the work were, in most cases, necessarily literal, and therefore presented difficulties not easily overcome. With these explanations, the author presents his work to the; agricultural public, sincerely hoping that future experience may not belie present promises, but that the matter upon which it treats may prove a valuable and an enduring source of wealth to the American horticulturist and farmer. A. H. BuENA Vista, Sonoma Counti, CuH (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historic
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Agoston De Mokcsa Haraszthy
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Agoston Haraszthy entered the Royal Hungarian Body Guard, and was later private secretary to the viceroy of Hungary. He came to the United States in 1840 and eventually went to Wisconsin, where on the Wisconsin River he founded what is the present village of Sauk City, first named by him “Szeptaj, ” then “Haraszthy, ” and later called Westfield. Going into partnership with an Englishman, Robert Bryant, he began erecting a house, brick store, school, and sawmill, and immediately attracted German, English, and Swiss emigrants. In 1842 he went to Hungary, sold his estate, and returned to America with his wife. He published an account of his adventures, in Hungarian (1844).
On his return to Sauk City, Haraszthy opened a brick yard and began the manufacture of brick, October 25, 1842. He planted the first hop yard in Wisconsin; operated the first ferryboat across the Wisconsin River at Sauk City; and as the head of an emigrant association, brought colonists to the place. He also erected the first frame structure in the Baraboo Valley, at Baraboo, in 1845, and conducted a store there.
Afflicted with asthma and advised by physicians to seek a milder climate, in April 1849 Haraszthy set out with his family for California, arriving in San Diego after an adventurous trip of nine months. Here he fought the Indians successfully and was elected county sheriff in 1850 and a member of the state legislature in 1852. In March of that year he imported the first vines which were planted in the vicinity of San Francisco. They were Tokay and Zinfandel, sent to him by friends in Hungary, and the celebrated Shiras vine from Persia. In 1857 he was appointed assayer and then smelter and refiner at the San Francisco Mint but resigned after a few months under a charge of embezzlement, of which he was later acquitted.
Together with three Hungarians, Urnay, Wass, and Molitor, with whom he had been associated at the Mint, he bought a choice piece of land in the Sonoma Valley, a short distance from Buena Vista, and there in 1858 the first large vineyard in California was planted. He continued importing, and about the end of 1862 he and his associates had 300 acres of vineland under cultivation. In 1861 he was appointed by the legislature a commissioner “to report upon ways and means best adapted to promote the improvement and culture of the grapevine in California, ” and in this capacity he made a tour of the wine-producing countries of Europe, bringing with him upon his return about three hundred distinct varieties of vines, and other fruit in addition. In 1863 he formed his Sonoma properties into a corporation, called “The Buena Vista Viticultural Society, ” with 300 acres of vineland and 5, 000 acres of farm land.
Having lost all his holdings in 1866, Haraszthy moved with his oldest son, his wife, and his father to Nicaragua, where he acquired 100, 000 acres of some of the best land in Central America and obtained a license to plant sugarcane and to manufacture sugar. Upon this plantation, the Hacienda San Antonio, near the port of Corinto, he met an accidental death by drowning.
In addition to his report mentioned above, Haraszthy published a report on his farm, grapes, and wine, and on the early history of viticulture in California, in Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society During the Year 1858 (1859). His catalogue of the trees and vines which he brought from Europe was published posthumously as Addenda to the second edition, revised (1881), of the First Annual Report of the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, of which his son Arpad was president.
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Agoston Haraszthy is known as pioneer winemaker in Wisconsin and California. He was one of the first men to plant vineyards in Wisconsin and California, where he introduced more than three hundred varieties of European grapes. He also was an early writer on California wine and viticulture, publishing Grape Culture, Wines, and Wine-Making; with Notes upon Agriculture and Horticulture (1862).
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Utazas Éjszakamerikában (Hungarian Edition)
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Grape Culture, Wines, and With Notes Upon Agriculture and Horti-Culture (Classic Reprint)
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Utazas Éjszakamerikában (Hungarian Edition)
Connections
Haraszthy's wife was Eleanora Dedinszky.
