Santa Clara County
Biographies
HENRY G. STILLING
One of the beautiful ranch homes in the vicinity of Santa Clara is that owned by Henry G. Stilling, one of the younger generation of native sons in whose hands rests the future horticultural reputation of the county. He is the youngest son, and next to the youngest child of the three sons and three daughters born in John and Louise (Stevens) Stilling.
As equipment for his busy life Mr. Stilling has a practical common school education, supplemented by a course at the San Jose Business College, from which he was duly graduated December 17, 1893. His youth and early manhood were spent on his father’s farm near Cupertino, where he eventually became sole manager, and maintained the position until in 1900 he purchased his present ranch of eighty acres one mile southwest of Santa Clara. Mr. Stilling was born August 14, 1874, in the then small city of San Jose, and was therefore twenty-five years old when he became a land owner, and the establisher of a flourishing fruit industry. He is making a specialty of prunes, to which all but five acres of his land is devoted, and he has as complete an equipment for their drying, packing and shipping as any rancher in the district. His brand, Pride of the West, finds its way to many of the eastern markets, and compares favorably with any of the prunes which emanate from this well-favored clime. Mr. Stilling avails himself of the most modern of ranch improvements, having a large dryer, and a pumping plant with a capacity of seven hundred gallons a minute.
In San Jose, in 1900, Mr. Stilling was united in marriage with Josephine Alice Helwig, a native of California, who presides over his beautiful home with dignity and grace. As might be expected of so energetic and promising a citizen, he is well connected fraternally, being a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter, F. & A. M.; the Eastern Star; and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of San Jose. Mr. Stilling is a Republican in politics, but up to the present time has shown no inclination to enter the area of official preference.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 1407-1408. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2017 Joyce Rugeroni.