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About Emil Clemens Horst
- Emil Clemens Horst (18 March 1867 – 24 May 1940) was a major figure in the cultivation, harvest and sale of hops in the United States. Horst emigrated to the U.S.
- as a child in 1874 from Tuttlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- In the mid 1880s he purchased a small plot of land along the Bear River, near Wheatland, California, and began cultivating hops.
- He soon bought out two other hop growers, Hugh Roddan and Joseph M.C.
- Jasper.
- By 1898, Horst's operation had grown to the point that ten hop drying kilns ran daily during the harvest and a company town, large enough to have its own post office, was started on the ranch to support the thousands of migrant workers who picked the mature hops each year.
- Given the significance of Horst's ranch, certain loamy floodplain soils found in the area were later named after him.Horst married in 1898, and moved to San Francisco in 1902.
- By 1904 he was supplying Oregon hops to the Guinness Brewery in Ireland.
- By 1912, Horst owned the largest number of acres of hops under cultivation in the world with offices in Chicago, New York and London.
- Horst Company was headquartered at 150 Pine Street, San Francisco, California.
- Prior to World War II, Horst Company was the only exporter of hops to Germany.
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