Sacramento County
Biographies
FRED
STIRNKORB
FRED STIRNKORB.--Another poultryman with a record for enviable success, who is particularly well posted as to California agricultural conditions, is Fred Stirnkorb, who has a well-kept and very interesting establishment about three and one-half miles east of Galt. He was born at Saafeld, in Thuringia, Germany, on December 6, 1875, the son of Jacob and Augusta Stirnkorb, the former a cooper by trade, who both passed away, aged respectively sixty and fifty years. They had three children: Ernest, the eldest, is now deceased; Fred is the subject of our review; and Anna, the youngest, is the only daughter.
After having enjoyed the educational advantages for which Germany was so long famous, Fred Stirnkorb left his native country in 1890 and, coming to the United States, settled in Nemaha County, Kansas, where he secured work on farms, and kept busy from 1890 to 1903. From 1899, however, he began to lease land and farm for himself; and in 1903, he came out to San Francisco, where he owned and drove a beer wagon. In 1906, he quit that enterprise and took up odd jobs; and he was six years on the Tivoli ranch in the Sunset district of San Francisco.
In 1913, Mr Stirnkorb came to Galt and bought ten acres three and one-half miles east of the town; and besides operating this tract, he leases land, and also engages in teaming, as well as raising poultry. He built a barn and a tank-house on the place, and has measurably improved the property. Mr. Stirnkorb was married in Kansas, in 1900, to Miss Nettie Payne, and they have one son, Ernest Stirnkorb.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 911.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.