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SIMON KOPPES
Simon Koppes holds a prominent
place in the business circles of Montague, being the general manager, secretary
and treasurer of the Montague Creamery, one of the leading concerns of its kind
in this section of the country. Mr. Koppes was
born in Holland in 1873 and was reared and educated there. He learned the dairy
and creamery business, and in 1892, when nineteen years of age, came to the
United States. He located first in Mississippi, where he took charge of a dairy
for five years.
In 1897 he came to California, settling in Fresno, where
he was employed in dairy and creamery work and was also connected with the San
Joaquin Ice Company. At the end of five years, Mr. Koppes
went to Ceres, this state, where he worked in a creamery, as he did also in
various other places until 1912, when he came to Montague and assisted in the
organization of the Montague Creamery, of which he has since been general
manager, secretary and treasurer. The president of the creamery is George Haight, a prominent and successful stockman of the Little
Shasta valley. The capacity of the Montague Creamery is three thousand pounds a
day, though at this time the output is somewhat below that figure. Mr. Koppes is the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of
land near Montague, which he is developing into a dairy farm. One hundred acres
of the land is under irrigation, eighty acres of it being now in alfalfa, and
the remainder of the tract is dry land. Mr. Koppes
has been a hard-working man, has been sincere and earnest in everything he has
undertaken and the success which is now his is well merited. He is in the best
sense of the term a self-made man and as such he is uniformly respected throughout the
community in which he lives.
In 1929 Mr. Koppes served as
vice president of the California Creamery Operatives Association and in 1930 as
a member of the executive committee of said association.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
02 June 2010.
Source: Wooldridge, J.W.Major
History of Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2, Pages 148-149. Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Marie Hassard..
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